History of Jefferson County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 27

Author: Durant, Samuel W; Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.)
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts & Co.
Number of Pages: 862

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The Judges of the courts are enumerated in connection with those tribunals, and the chairmen and clerks of the board of supervisors are named in connection with that body.

Beside the officers named in the foregoing list, the citi- zens of Jefferson have honorably filled national and State offices as follows : Presidential Electors-1816, Eliphalet Edmonds, by appointment of Legislature ; 1828, Jesse Smith ; 1832, Ebenezer Wood; 1836, Orville Hunger- ford ;* 1840, Elbridge G. Merrick ; 1844, Azariah Doane ; 1848, John Bradley ; 1860, Hiram Dewey; 1864, John Clarke; 1868, De Witt C. West; Henry Speneer, 1876. Lieutenant- Governor, Allen C. Beach, 1870-73. Council of Appointment, Perley Keyes, 1816. State's Prison In- speetor, James K. Bates, 1860. Auditor in Canal De- partment, Jamcs A. Bell, 1870. Private Secretary to Governor, Beman Brockway, 1865.

CHAPTER IX.

THE LEARNED PROFESSIONS.

The Bar-The Medical Profession-Educational : Academies, Public Schools, Libraries-Religions.

THE JEFFERSON COUNTY BAR.

IN an aet relating to attorneys, passed in 1787, it was deelared that none should be admitted to the practice of the profession in the courts of the State but "such as have been brought up in the court he applies to, or are otherwise well practieed in soliciting causes, and have been found by the discharge of their duties to be skillful, and of honest disposition." In 1846, the Court of Appeals was given the power to establish rules of admission to the practice of the profession in the State eourts, and access thereto was made comparatively an easy matter, and many throughout the State entered on an honorable profession whose subsequent

# ORVILLE HUNGERFORD Was born in Farmington, October 29, 1790. He settled in Watertown in 1804, and commenced a clerkship with Judge Jabez Foster in the latter's store in Burrville, and in 1807 or 1808 removed with him to Watertown, where they engaged in mer- cantile business as partners. During the War of 1812-15 the firm was extensively engaged as contractors for supplies for the army of Sacket's Harbor. In 1815 Mr. Hungerford began trade by himself, and continued therein until 1842. In the latter year he was elected to Congress, and represented the 19th district in that body four years. In 1847 he was nominated for comptroller by the Democratic party, but was defeated by Millard Fillmore, the vote standing thus :

Jefferson County. State.

For O. Ilungerford 4463

For O. Hungerford 136,017

" Millard Fillmore .. 3893

Millard Fillmore .... 174,756

" Lewis Tappan. 489

4 Lewis Tappan 10,408

While in Congress he was appointed at the first session of his first term on the Committecs of Revolutionary Pensions and on Accounts, and the business tact and ability which he displayed raised him high in the estimation of his associates, and at the next session he was placed on the most important committee of the Honse,-that of Ways and Means,-where he fully sustained the reputation he had acquired, that of a thorough business man. He was the first President of the Rome and Cape Vincent Railroad, in the promotion of which he labored with a zeal and energy that knew no weariness or discourage- ment, and died while holding the position, April 6, 1851, after an illness of but twelve days .- HouGH.

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eareer has not been remarkably brilliant; but notwithstand- ing this fact, so many attorneys of national repute and ae- knowledged ability have been and are numbered in the annals of the bar of the State, its fame is imperishable ; and the Jefferson County bar has contributed no little to the honorable reeord.

The following list of resident attorneys of Jefferson County has been compiled from the records of the courts of the county where their names appear, more or less fre- quently, in the conduet of cases before the several tribunals of the Common Pleas, Oyer and Terminer, General Ses- sions, and County Circuit and Supreme Courts, and which list has been revised by two eminent practitioners of the early days of the county, as well as of its latter ones. The dates prefixed are the dates of the first appearance of the attorney named in the courts of the county, and the name of the town given was, or is, the place of residenec of the person named.

Watertown .- 1807, S. Whittlesey, Amos Benediet, B. Skinner, S. C. Kennedy, Moss Kent; 1808, Micah Ster- ling ; 1809, Wm. Brown; 1811, D. W. Bueklin, D. Perry, J. M. Canfield, Egbert Ten Eyek ; 1816, Charles E. Clarke, Thomas C. Chittenden, Harlowe Emerson ; 1820, W. H. Shumway ; 1821, Wm. D. Ford, Robert Lansing ; 1822, .A. Loomis, Geo. C. Sherman ; 1825, Isaae G. Bron- son, John Clarke; 1829, Bernard Bagley; 1830, W. Smith ; 1831, Wm. A. Greene, E. Dodge ; 1835, J. W. Tamblin ; 1836, Wm. A. Ruger, C. Mason, S. G. Watson ; 1838, A. W. Watson, J. Mullen ; 1840, F. W. Hubbard, W. C. Thompson, Wooster Sherman; 1841, Randolph Barnes, W. H. Green, E. W. Williams, Charles D. Wright ; 1842, J. Moore, Jr .; 1843, W. W. Sherman, D. M. Bennett, N. P. Wardwell, J. H. Dutton ; 1844, Luther J. Dorwin ; 1846, Lysander H. Brown, J. F. Hutchinson ; 1847, Levi H. Brown, G. M. Bueklin, James F. Star- buek, James R. A. Perkins ; 1848, John S. Neweomb, A. Wilson, S. J. Hubbard, E. B. Wynn; 1849, L. H. Ainsworth, W. F. Porter, Lotus Ingalls ; 1850, D. C. Calvin, Geo. A. Bagley ; 1852, E. Q. Sewall ; 1853, A. C. Beach ; 1854, M. H. Merwin, Fred. Emerson, Wm. B. Farwell ; 1855, G. H. Sherman, John Lansing; 1856, Bradley Winslow, M. G. Warrington ; 1857, A. H. Saw- yer, Joseph Spratt ; 1858, W. N. Sherman, Milton Bal- lard, L. J. Bigelow, - Brockway, N. Whiting, Isaae Munson ; 1859, Fred. Lansing, Jr., Jesse T. Reynolds, J. W. Gilbert ; 1860, C. T. Hammond, Anson B. Moore, A. D. Sternberg, Chas. A. Sherman, S. D. Barr, H. A. Gates, M. J. Connelly, Chas. H. Kelsey ; 1861, C. H. Watts, Stephen Strong, S. H. Hammond, John C. McCar- tin; 1862, W. W. Taggart, D. O. Brien ; 1864, Allan McGregor, John Cosgrove, Ross C. Seott, P. C. Wil- liams ; 1865, Franeis N. Fiteh ; 1866, Edgar North ; 1870, O. G. Walrath, W. M. Rogers, Walter S. Lamb ; 1871, Joseph Mullen, Jr., H. S. Gipson ; 1872, H. W. Congdon, E. C. Dorwin, W. H. Hotchkin, E. C. Emerson, Andrew J. Moore; 1873, Thomas F. Kearnes; 1875, Hannibal Smith, F. H. Remington, George W. Moak ; 1876, W. B. Breen, Henry C. Cook, Henry Pureell, D. G. Griffin, John W. Hogan, C. W. Hubbard, Frederick D. Sherman ; 1877, George S. Hooker, Wilbur A. Porter,

S. S. Trowbridge ; date not given, Henry A. Munson, S. R. Pratt.

Adams. - 1807, Lyman Munson, Thomas Skinner ; 1811, B. Wright ; 1816, J. P. Rossiter; 1827, Calvin Skinner; 1831, S. Osgood; 1836, S. Crittenden ; 1846, 0. Bushnell ; 1849, E. J. Marsh ; 1850, Alonzo Maxson ; 1851, E. A. Brown, Thomas P. Saunders; 1855, G. L. Brown, H. C. Chittenden ; 1856, Theo. Hawley, O. W. Skinner, N. Viekery ; 1859, P. C. Maxson ; 1860, Parley Brown, Theo. C. Chittenden, 2d; 1861, Wm. H. Brown, A. J. Brown; 1862, A. E. Cooley ; 1870, E. F. Rams- dell; 1872, G. B. R. Whipple ; 1876, Thomas H. Breen ; date not given, L. L. Hunt, Jr.

Brownville .- 1807, Thomas Y. How; 1818, N. Rath- burn ; 1835, Y. H. Howe; 1838, W. W. Wager ; 1848, De Witt C. Priest ; 1850, Silas A. Webb ; 1862, Geo. W. Wager.

Saeket's Harbor .- 1807, Elisha Camp; 1816, Justin Butterfield, A. Holton ; 1820, Elisha Smith Lee; 1821, Jno. McCarty ; 1822, I. Steele ; 1829, M. K. Stow ; 1836, D. N. Burnham ; 1838, Aug. Ford ; 1840, G. H. Camp ; 1841, A. Z. McCarty ; 1845, E. W. Lewis ; 1848, J. Van Vleek ; 1860, Oliver Robbins, S. C. Green.

Henderson .- A. M. Leffingwell.

Ellisburg. - 1816, S. Wardwell, Daniel Wardwell ; 1830, J. W. Bishop; 1840, H. Aekley ; 1849, W. L. Bishop; 1857, Eli Overton ; 1860, A. A. Wheeler; 1864, R. R. Tousley.

Carthage .- 1842, H. Carpenter; 1844, M. Biekford ; 1845, L. J. Goodale, Chas. Edwards ; 1849, Thos. S. Hammond, A. B. Gilbert; 1855, Geo. Gilbert ; 1859, A. H. Francis ; 1860, S. J. Pratt, O. F. Atwood, J. B. Emmes; 1863, Henry J. Welch; 1865, William M. Forbes ; 1870, Jno. C. Fulton ; 1872, A. E. Kilby, Chas. H. Kimball, Jr .; 1873, H. C. Cook; date not given, Gaines M. Allen.

Champion .- 1810, Alfred Lathrop.

Rodman .- 1822, Benajah B. Phelps; 1829, -- Strong; 1845, R. S. Hunt.

Belleville .- 1836, E. B. Hawes; 1860, M. A. Haek- ley ; 1870, H. C. Hawes.

Antwerp .- 1841, Eli Cook ; 1849, P. D. Foster ; 1857,

Gillett ; 1860, R. W. Keene; 1861, J. F. Cook ; 1874, J. C. Trolan.

Le Ray .- 1862, Wm. S. Phelps ; 1864, Julius D. Beek with.

Philadelphia .- 1844, D. J. Wager.

Evan's Mills .- 1844, Allen Nims; 1649, J. Boyer ; 1862, Wm. B. Beckwith.

Oxbow .- 1849, E. Fowler; 1860, M. V. Brainard.

Clayton .- 1855, A. E. Morse; 1862, J. C. Johnson ; date not given, N. G. Hickok, F. T. Evans.

Theresa .- 1856, David Bearup, E. R. Keene; 1876, C. W. Thompson.

Cupe Vincent .- 1861, Morris E. Lee ; date not given, E. D. Ililts.

Lafargeville .- 1852, Wayland Ford.

Redwood .- 1862, A. Harder ; 1870, Don A. Watson. The Jefferson bar has furnished from its members offi- eials for the nation and the State, who have reflected honor

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upon the profession, as well as the people whom they rep- resented, by the distinguished ability they have brought to the discharge of their trusts. Kent, Sterling, Ten Eyek, Daniel Wardwell, Bronson, Thomas C. Chittenden, Mullen, Charles E. Clarke, and Geo. A. Bagley have served in the lower house of Congress; Beach, as lieutenant-governor ; Robert Lansing, Ruger, Geo. C. Sherman, Tamblin, and Starbuck as State senators ; Mullen, Hubbard, and Mer- win on the Supreme beneh, and Robert Lansing, W. C. Thompson, Chas. D. Wright, and Sawyer on the bench of the county ; while others have filled positions of lesser note with equal honor in the discharge of their official duties.

On February 26, 1834, the judges of the county courts, the officers of those courts, the members of the bar and students-at-law, met in the court-house and organized them- selves into a temperanee society and chose the following officers : Hon. John Macomber, president; B. Wright, first vice-president ; 'Zeno Allen, second vice-president ; Pcleg Burchard, secretary ; I. Steele, T. C. Chittenden, and J. Butterfield, executive committee. The greater portion of the persons present signed the pledge.

Other attorneys of note in the State have praetieed in the early courts, who never resided in the county, whose names are not given in connection herewith.

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

The practice of physie and surgery was first regulated by law in the city of New York by an aet of the colonial as- sembly, passed June 10, 1760, and by the State, by an act of March 27, 1792. The first general regulation adopted for the State at large was the act of Marchi 13, 1797, authorizing the chancellor, a judge of the supreme or common pleas courts, or a master in chaneery, to lieense physicians and surgeons, on proper evidence of having studied medieine two years; and the former aet was re- pealed. In 1801 and 1803 amendments were made to the act. of 1797, and in 1806 an act was passed establishing a State Medical Society and medical societies for the counties, and repealing all former acts touching the medical praetiee.

THE JEFFERSON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY was formed December 17, 1806. John Durkee, Isaae Ma- goon, David B. Ripley, Isaiah Massey, Jabez Kingsbury, Benjamin Farley, James D. Seiseo, Ozias H. Rawson, Daniel Barney, Eli Eastman, H. Wileox, Elias Skinner, and Hugh Henderson were present, and united in the organization. The first officers were : John Durkee, president ; Daniel Barney, viee-president ; Hugh Henderson, seerctary; Isaiah Massey, treasurer; Benjamin Farlie, Eli Eastman, and Hugh Henderson, eensors; H. Henderson, delegate to the State society.

August 11, 1807, a committee was appointed to inquire whether any unauthorized persons were practicing medicine, and to prosecute them if so. July 4, 1809, a committee of six was appointed to report the number of quacks and unlicensed physicians. On the 13th of March, 1810, they reported nineteen names. A code of medical ethics was published by the society in 1829. At the July session, in 1830, a central committee of five, and one from each town, was appointed to take a medical topographieal survey of

the county ; but this measure was not carried into effcet. During many years it was the custom of the society to offer prizes for essays on given subjects. The last meeting of the society, under its original organization, was held in 1849 or 1850 ; but the records having been destroyed by the great fire of 1849, in Watertown, the exact date eannot now be aseertained. Dr. J. Mortimer Crawe, of Watertown, in an address delivered before the society January 4, 1876, as its retiring president, gave as the reasons for the disbanding of the society the inconvenienec and difficulty consequent upon the efforts to attend its meetings by the members, disgust at the removal of legislative restrictions previously thrown around the practice of medicine, and some other minor considerations. The doctor administers a kindly rebuke to the eraft for their surrender in the face of the enemy.

Two decades clapsed without the operations of a medieal society in the county. In 1868, August 15, Dr. F. B. A. Lewis and Dr. H. G. P. Spencer ealled a meeting of phy- sicians at the American hotel in Watertown, which eall was also signed by fifteen other physicians, at which the following-named were present: Drs. H. G. P. Spencer, Wm. R. Trowbridge, James K. Bates, J. Mortimer Crawe, F. B. A. Lewis, H. S. Hendee, James T. Peeden, Geo. N. Hubbard, Truman Tuttle, and E. G. Derby. The society was reorganized, and the following officers chosen : Presi- dent, H. G. P. Spencer ; Vice-President, H. S. Hendee ; Secretary, F. B. A. Lewis ; Treasurer, W. R. Trowbridge. A constitution and by-laws and a fee-bill were subsequently prepared and adopted, and the society has since that date maintained its high position among the institutions of the county, meeting in regular session annually, at which able addresses have been made by prominent members of the profession. In 1870, the essay was by the retiring presi- dent of the society, on "Diphtheria." In 1871, Dr. Peeden, the retiring president, addressed the society on " The Med- ical Profession," and at the semi-annual meeting of that year Dr. W. C. Bailey's address was on "Sleep." The addresses since have been as follows, the retiring president delivering the same at the annual meeting, and the viee- president at the semi-annual meeting: 1872, Dr. Ira H. Abell, president, "Standing of the Medical Profession ;" also, an essay by Dr. Pratt; subjeet, "Diagnosis." Viee- president Geo. N. Hubbard ; subjeet, “ Epidemie Cerebro- Spinal Meningitis." 1873, President H. W. Jewett, " Medieal Associations ;" and an essay on " Criminal Abor- tions," by Dr. C. M. Johnson, 1874. At the annual meet- ing Dr. Peeden's essay was on " Gastritis." At the semi- annual meeting the vice-president's (Dr. J. M. Crawe) essay was on "Sporadie Dysentery." In 1875 the cssays eov- ercd " Blisters," "Face Presentations," "Electricity as a Therapeutie Agent," and the " Ophthalmoseope," and were read by Drs. Streeter, Spencer, and others. In 1876, Dr. Crawe, as before mentioned, delivered his address as the retiring president, in which he recorded the history of the society, from which much of the information given in this present record is drawn. The officers of the society for 1877 were Dr. W. P. Massey, president, and Dr. C. W. Bur- dick, secretary.

By the destruction of the records of the society in 1849

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by fire, it is made nearly, if not quite, impossible to gather a complete list of the members of the society previous to that date; but such as Dr. Crawe was enabled to obtain, by diligent inquiry and untiring effort, are here given, with the date of their admission :

1806 .- John Durkee, Isaac Magoon, David B. Ripley, Isaiah Massey, Jabez Kingsbury, Benjamin Farlie, James D. Seiseo, Ozias H. Rawson, Daniel Barney, Eli Eastman, H. Wilcox, Elias Skinner, Hugh Henderson (died in 1808).

1807 .- Joshua Bealls, Jr., William Baker, Daniel Brainard, Joel Dresser, Joseph Green, Horatio Orvis, Abel Sherman, Eli West, Isaae Weston.

1808 .- Elisha Mathews, Henry H. Sherwood.

1809 .- Paul Hutchinson, Amasa Trowbridge.

1810 .- Joshua J. Barrett, Nathan Cheever, John M. Henderson, Russell Steel, Isaae S. Wood.

1811 .- Joseph Clary, John Cowen, Amasa Howe, John Spafford, Noalı Tubbs.

1812 .- Isaae Olney, William Robinson.

1813 .- Reuben Goodale.

1814 .- C. T. Kimball, Frederiek P. Markham.

1815 .- E. Dutton (Denton ?).

1816 .- S. Houghton, J. Marsh.

1817 .- Wm. H. Buchanan, Alfred Eli, Alpheus S. Green, Samuel Randall.

1818 .- John M. Burton, Benjamin Cushman, Alpheus Morse, Jonathan Sherwood.

1819 .- Joseph N. Clark, - Nelson, Amos Page, B. L. M. Davis.

1820 .- Oliver Brewster, Ralph Rogers, Ira A. Smith, Rufus S. Waite.

1821 .- Joseph Bagg, James A. Wells.

1822 .- James Brooks, Ithamar B. Crawe, Curtis Haven.

1823 .- Ephraim Adamıs, Walter Webb.

1824 .- Wm. J. Bates.

1826 .- Lowrey Barney, Wm. J. Fisk, Hiram Mills, Charles Orvis, Caleb Woodward.

1827 .- R. Kinney, - Carrier.

1828 .- E. M. Adams, Abner Denton, H. W. Bushnell, Caleb Cook, O. W. Cushman, John D. Davison, Foster Dexter, David Diekerson, Peletiah Dwight, Elkanah French, A. W. Gray, H. H. ITills, Isaae Jenks, J. Jones, Converse Johnson, John R. Johnson, D. S. Kimball, Philip Max- well, Almond Pitcher, Caleb Preston, G. S. Sacket, Wm. J. Sikes, Gordon P. Spencer, Samuel Tueker, Samuel Wetmore, Ira Wright.

1829 .- Jesse Ayres, La Mont Bagg, James K. Bates, C. Barge, Richard Clark, Henry J. Munson, Alva Murdock. 1830 .- Stephen Seymour, George Green.

1831 .- Jonathan Ellis, Samuel J. Gaines, S. W. Hunt, Aaron Sumner.

1833 .- Wm. H. Wiser.

1834 .- Isaae Munson.

1835 .- Chas. W. Eastman, Win. A. Wood.

1836 .- Abraham Hawn, H. I. Dickenson.

1837 .- Kilborn Hannahs.

1838 .- Walter Dewey.

1839 .- Ainos Ellis, Amasa Trowbridge, Jr. (died 1841).

1841 .- Wm. H. H. Davis, Charles Goodale, S. W. Soule. 1842 .- Benjamin Walton.

1843 .- W. G. Comstock, Wm. V. V. Rosa, Wm. E. Tyler, A. M. Van Ostrand, Leonard Powers.

1846 .- Wm. R. Trowbridge, E. R. Maxson.

1848 .- Simon Goodell.

Members of the reorganized society, other than those who were members of the old society :

1868 .- H. G. P. Spencer, J. Mortimer Crawe, F. B. A. Lewis, H. S. Hendee, James F. Peeden, George N. Hub- bard, Truman Tuttle (deceased), E. G. Derby (1847).

1869 .- H. M. Stevens, Frederick Bott, Ira H. Abell, E. A. Chapman, L. E. Frame, Charles Parker, Alonzo H. Gordinier, C. M. Johnson, Robert Clink, La Fayette Mason, HI. W. Jewett.

1870 .- Nathan M. Davidson, George G. Sabin, Parley H. Johnson, Anson S. Thompson, Ezra B. Pratt, E. S. Carlisle, Solomon V. Frame, Henry W. Streeter, Wm. P. Massey, William C. Bailey, Martin J. Hutchins, Charles A. Catlin, James D. Spencer, Emerson G. Seyinour.

1871 .- Lewis C. Watson, Amos Ellis.

1872 .- A. A. Getman, J. H. Miller.

1873 .- E. G. Howland, James E. Kelsey, N. O. Bemis, G. G. Whitaker.

1874 .- J. K. Sturtevant, D. E. Pieree, John Grafton, E. Sill, J. Aldrich Wood, D. A. Gleason, Geo. Seymour, A. B. Stearns, M. L. Overton, J. T. Millard.

1875 .- A. K. Hale, A. R. Rudd, Chas. Douglass, Z. K. Babeock, C. W. Burdick, L. E. Jones, H. S. Lane, W. T. Burdick, K. Hannahs.

1876 .- S. E. Merrill, John Pearee, Dr. John Muir, Dr. Goodwin, Thos. Masson, S. L. Parmelee, N. D. Ferguson, Lois Mansfield.

1877 .- Wm. E. Tyler, J. H. Tamblin, H. H. Deane, H. A. MeIlmoyl, C. D. Potter, - Benedict, S. E. Ballard, J. Daab, Charles F. Wright.

Besides these physicians named as members of the medi- cal society, others have practiced in the county, as follows :

Antwerp .- Dr. William Robinson, 1852; Dr. J. S. Con- key, 1842, and moved to Canton, St. Lawrence county ; Dr. R. R. Sherman, 1848.

Sucket's Harbor .- Dr. R. P. Hayes, 1817 ; Dr. Samuel Guthrie, 1816-18, died October, 1848.

Theresa .- Dr. James Davison, Dr. James B. Carpenter, 1812, and later in Philadelphia, Dr. Rexford Davison, Dr. Lucius Hannahs, died in 1876.

Philadelphia .- Dr. Coan, A. Welch, O. S. Copeland, V. B. Ayres, 1862; Dr. A. I. Ooo, 1864; Dr. E. W. Trow- bridge, Dr. R. A. Stevens.

Carthage .- Dr. Benjamin S. Budd, 1821, and still in practiec ; Dr. J. HI. Copp, 1863, at Natural Bridge.

Champion .- Dr. G. D. Hewitt, 1865; Dr. R. J. Dar- ragh, 1877.

Belleville .- S. Wright Frame, M.D., 1875.

Depauville .- Dr. Win. Frame, 1822-47 (deceased).

Cape Vincent .- Drs. Martin Braun, A. S. Smith, and Philip Cole, at present in practice in that town.

La Fargeville .- Doctors Boalt and William Potter, Dr. Reuben Andrus, 1819.

Plessis .- Dr. Dunton, 1830.

Alexandria Bay .- Dr. Charles Walton, Dr. A. O. Blair, 1832 to 1838.

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Adams .- Dr. Walter Welch, before 1833; Dr. Brownell. Rodman .- Drs. Woodman and Potter; and Dr. Peck, at Zoar; also Dr. William Christie.

Lorraine .- Drs. Hathaway and Nugent.

Smithville .- Drs. Lord, Breed, and Piersons; the latter now resident there.

THE HOMEOPATHIC SCHOOL.

The practitioners of the Hahnemann system of medi- cine have been, as far as has been ascertained in the county, as follows : Dr. U. S. Dunning was the first physician of this school to locate in the county, and he came in 1843 to Watertown, and connected with his practice as a dentist that also of a physician. He remained some five or six years, when he removed to California, and after a few years' resi- dence in that State and in Oregon, he returned to the county and located in Adams, where he died. Dr. C. E. Boice came next to Watertown, and is now in Auburn. Dr. George W. Foote came next, and stayed two or three years, and then Dr. Bailey, who was in practice for several years. Dr. W. A. Hawley, now of Syracuse, was in practice also in Watertown for four or five years. Dr. S. C. Knicker- bocker came from New York in 1861, and is still in practice, in company with Dr. W. T. Laird, who came to the city in 1872. Dr. Ira V. Dagget came also in 1872, and Dr. Alfred G. Cole in 1877, and is now in practice in the city. Dr. J. W. Brown, of Carthage, 1869 ;* Dr. G. H. Wood, of Antwerp, 1877 .; Dr. Waldo located in Adams, 1863, and Dr. M. W. Gallup in 1875, and resides there at the present writing.

ECLECTIC SCHOOL.

Dr. Alanson P. Hale, now of Adams, was the earliest practitioner of this school in the county, locating at Adams in 1835. Dr. Weeden Mosher practiced also after this system, or the botanic, in Philadelphia, quite early. Dr. C. Heath is now a resident physician of the latter place.

For further details concerning the medical profession, sce the several town and village histories.

SURGEON-DENTISTS. .

Those dentists who have practiced their profession in Jefferson County are as follows, with the date of their lo- cation therein :

Dr. Spalding, 1840; Dr. E. B. Wells, 1843 (died in Oneida county); Dr. U. S. Dunning, 1843 (died in Adams) ; Dr. S. M. Robinson, 1846, in Watertown, and still practices there ; Dr. E. A. Holbrook, 1853, in Water- town, and still in practice; Dr. C. F. Ives, 1857; Dr. James Ketchum and Dr. Van Valkenburgh, 1848; the former is deceased and the latter is in Camden ; Dr. T. N. Foster, 1854; Dr. J. D. Huntington, 1862, and still in practice in Watertown ; Dr. Henry Smith and Dr. A. M. Butler, 1860 ; they were in Watertown a short time only ; Dr. E. L. Sargent, 1864; Dr. J. P. Dunn, 1875; Dr. W. E. Dunn, 1876 ; Dr. A. D. Payne, 1877. The four last named are in practice at the present time in Watertown. Dr. H. A. Coe came to Theresa in 1850, and after practicing several years died in Georgia in 1874, being succeeded by

his son, George H. Coe, in his practice. Dr. A. Bain lo- cated in Clayton in 1871, and Dr. E. A. Monroe in Car- thage, 1864; Dr. Blandon located at Belleville, Dr. Bailey at Mannsville, and Dr. George H. Latham at Antwerp, the latter in 1870; Dr. Manville located in Adams in 1861-62, and Dr. R. T. Kirkland later ; Dr. C. W. Bullard, of Carthage, located in Antwerp, 1870, and in present place of residence, 1876.

Dr. Hough says : " The diseases which have occurred in our county can scarcely be said to offer any peculiarity worthy of remark. Few sections are more generally healthy, or less exposed to local causes of disease. The sickness of 1798 and that of 1828 have been noticed on preceding pages. The lake and river shore, and the bor- ders of Perch and Indian rivers, have been in some dry seasons subject to intermittent fevers; but less now than formerly.

" The vicinity of Natural Bridge, in Wilna, is thought to present endemic causes of bronchocele, a malady somewhat common there.

" The spring of 1813 was remarkable for the prevalence of an epidemic, pneumonia typhoides, which, having pre- vailed in the eastern portions of the Union during the previous winter, first appeared in the county about the 8th of March, and raged with great severity till the 1st of May. Some idea of its prevalence may be judged from the ex- perience of a single physician,¿ who, in the ordinary limits of his practice, met in that period with three hundred and thirty cases, of which thirteen were fatal. Its appearance was a little earlier in Lewis county, and later at Watertown than at Rutland. The attack was generally sudden, and the fate of the patient was often decided within a few hours. In about one-third of the cases the disease attacked the head, and in the remainder the lungs. It was epidemic, but not contagious, and in its course it spread over a wide extent of country. No exemptions of age, sex, or condition were noticed. Other epidemics of less fatality have been observed, but statistics are wanting concerning them. In 1822-23 a very fatal but limited sickness from a local cause occurred in Rutland, and in the winter of 1844-45 a sim- ilar but more fatal and prevalent sickness occurred in Ant- werp, of which many died. The cholera has on the several occasions of its return spread an alarm through the county, but fortunately never visited our border except perhaps in a few scattered cases."

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History of Jefferson County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 27

Author: Durant, Samuel W; Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.) Publication date: 1878 Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts & Co. Number of Pages: 862

Author: Durant, Samuel W; Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.)
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts & Co.
Number of Pages: 862