History of Livingston County, New York, from its earliest traditions to the present together with early town sketches, Part 59

Author: Doty, Lockwood R., 1858- [from old catalog] ed; Van Deusen, W. J., pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Jackson, Mich., W. J. Van Deusen
Number of Pages: 1422


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T HE INFLUENCE of the Genesee Valley Hunt upon Living- ston County during the past generation has been an interesting one to the student of American country life and of much more importance than would at first appear. This beautiful farming country, like all our Eastern agricultural communities, has had to with- stand not only the competition of the Western grain lands but the absorption by the cities of a large percentage of the most desirable young men and women. To meet the effect of the opening of the North-western wheat countries, it has been necessary to change the character of farming in the older states. Generally speaking, where this has been done successfully, the tendency has been to substitute for wheat and corn, high class stock, forage, dairy and garden prod- ucts. such as find advantageous markets in the nearest centers of population. Indirectly the Hunt has assisted not a little in this result. Thoroughbred breeding horses have been introduced and buyers come from all parts of the United States in search of young, well-bred horses suitable for making hunters. It costs the farmer no more to raise such a horse than a common one and as four-year olds they readily command from fifty to a hundred per cent more than the ordinary run of farm horses. More directly the Hunt has stimulated the business of the community by attracting to the Valley for several months each year, hunting men from the cities who spend their money in the country and provide a local market for forage, horses and supplies.


In a much broader manner, however, foxhunting has tended to benefit Livingston county, as it has benefited those counties in Penn- sylvania, Maryland and Virginia where the sport has flourished for over a century. The impulse which carries so many of the young country bred men to the city is often not so much the belief that a greater financial success is likely to be found in the city as that life in


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the country is dull and without variety or amusement. All work and no wholesome play makes Jack or anybody else a dull boy. Fox hunt- ing is the best and most natural sport to amuse and absorb the sur- plus energies of a farming community. Schooling a well bred four- year old not only doubles the value of the colt by making a hunter out of him, but it teaches the boy to ride and develops the courage and self control requisite in following hounds across country. And most of all it furnishes him with an autumn of the best fun in the world, which ought to make him work cheerfully, if anything will, and binds him anew to his community by the pleasant ties of sport.


These are somewhat material considerations as to the relation between the county and the Hunt. But there is another which ap- peals wholly to sentiment and county pride. During the past genera- tion there have assembled at the meets of the Genesee Valley Hunt people from all parts of America and Europe, and not only people in- terested solely in sport, but men and women distinguished in widely varying spheres of life. Some of the best known of American artists, literary men, generals, lawyers and statesmen have been introduced to the beauty of this historic valley through the pursuit of foxes. One very hot Fourth of July afternoon, on the Meadow at the Homestead, the present President of the United States rode strenuously in the sports and was much respected for the vigor of his blows in the Cavalry fight. It is interesting to know that his two favorite horses have been schooled over Genesee Valley fences.


Thus, through an organization which at first thought seems intended only to furnish manly sport, has Livingston county been materially benefited and its beautiful valley made famous in all parts of the world.


A memorandum under the date 1876, in Major W. Austin Wads- worth's hunt diary says: "Of the older days when 'Lish' Shepard and others hunted there is no record. During this summer occurred the paper hunt on the Home farm which was the occasion of the first regular organization for hunting foxes on horseback in the Genesee Valley. W. A. Wadsworth laid the trail and was allowed three min- utes start. He started at the head of the lane, went S. W. to the river, followed it more or less Northwesterly to the bridge and then came back South and was cornered by the crowd and caught by C. C. Fitz- hugh in the front meadow. George Williams had a bad fall on cross- ing the R. R. and his horse dislocated her shoulder. There were pres-


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ent, W. A. W. on Missy, C. C. Fitzhugh on Royal, J. W. Wadsworth Arthur Post, George Williams on Virginia."


The diary goes on to relate that "before Charles Carroll Fitzhugh and W. A. W. started the first regular organization for hunting on horseback, foxes had been followed by hounds and men on horseback or otherwise for many years in the Valley and there were good men, horses and hounds engaged in it. " Thus the new hunt had friends at the outset. It was named the Livingston County Hunt. C. C. Fitzhugh was Huntsman, and W. A. Wadsworth President. The Hunt record explains that the organization owned no hounds but hunted with such as it could borrow. The hounds were brought by their masters and put on as suited them during the run. The meetings were kept very quiet, nobody went straight; many followed in buggies."


Under the date 1877, the diary says: "During this year the attempt was made to have the Huntsman hunt the hounds with less assistance from their owners, but as they did not know him and were kept at home they were gloriously independent."


In 1878, owing to the death of Charles Carroll Fitzhugh, there was no regular hunting but the following year the club resumed its meets.


Under the date of 1879 the diary says: "This year some of the hounds were got together in a kennel at the Homestead at the begin- ning of the season to get them acquainted with each other and the huntsman, but there were always a lot of strange dogs in a hunt. An attempt was made at the Homestead to run a drag of anise but the hounds would not own it. There were three drags made by dragging a dead fox and the man that laid them carried a stick four feet long and let down any fence higher than it was long."


The vicissitudes of the sport in these early days is suggested by a note of the Oneida Farm meet in 1878: "Plenty of riders but nobody on hand with a hound except Jimmy O'Hara. Ran three miles with one dog, going west to Sugarbush, then round Sherwood meadow east and then north. As we got to the Nations lane Dave Hurlburt turned up with a lot of men and dogs from Mount Morris, and they being put on the scent (after chivying and killing a cat), went off in style to the north. At the Oxbow lane there was a check and J. W. (The Hon. James W. Wadsworth) having got into the lane got a bad fall in trying to get out and was taken home in a carriage Fox was caught and killed on the Little Oxbow."


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A Meet at Ashantee, November 1894.


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In the Autumn of 1879 Mr. Wadsworth started a pack of his own and allowed no strange hounds to hunt. There were eleven hounds in this pack. The following year on October 29th the Livingston Coun- ty Hunt was reorganized under the name of the Genesee Valley Hunt. WV. Austin Wadsworth was elected President and Master of Hounds; L. R. Doty, Secretary and Treasurer. An executive committee was also elected consisting of the President ex officio, Trumbull Cary of Batavia and George Servis. The charter members of the hunt were Charles Culbertson, George T. Ewart, William McCory, George Servis, L. D. Rumsey, Dr. Charles Cary, Trumbull Cary, Frederick Palmer, John Young, C. H. Young, J. W. Wadsworth, L. R. Doty, W. A. Wadsworth.


Good sport was given in 1880 and in 1882 it grew and continued to prosper. The territory hunted was extended and a successful meet was held as far up the valley as William Staight's in West Sparta.


There were many memorable runs that year and the hunting con- tinued up to December 19th. Drag hunting had mostly giveu way to fox hunting and January 1st, 1884 there was a pack at the Master's kennels of twenty-three hounds including several English dogs import- ed for stud purposes. On July Fourth a hunt meeting was held at the Homestead, new members were elected and plans for improving the hunting were considered. Those present, after the meeting took a ride cross country.


The following year the Fourth of July meeting was celebrated with equestrian sports held on the Geneseo Fair Grounds. The events were picking up a hat from horseback, riding at scarfs with lances, riding at Turk's head and rings with sabre, riding at rings with lances and the high jump.


The hunting season of 1885 opened successfully with a meet at Bleak House October 5. The Hunt by this time had become effectively organized with W. A. Wadsworth as Master and Huntsman, two whippers-in and a kennel man, to hunt foxes. There were ten couples of hounds. On October 23rd the first point-to-point steeplechase in the valley was held, and after an exciting race was won by Thomas Cary of Buffalo, who appeared unexpectedly at the finish.


In 1888, the cards were issued as "Mr. Wadsworth's Hounds" and the hunting by this time was firmly established and the Genesee Valley rapidly became known throughout this country and in Eng-


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land as a hunting center. People from New York and the cities on the Atlantic coast as well as from Buffalo and Rochester came to Geneseo and Mt. Morris, buying places or renting them or stop- ping at the hotels for the hunting season. Drag hunting had been abandoned altogether and the Genesee Valley Hounds became exclu- sively a pack used for hunting wild foxes. In 1885 The Mt. Morris Horse Show was held for the first time. Although managed by an organization distinct from the Ilunt it was an offshoot of the Hunt and depended upon it for its success. In 1895 the Mt. Morris shows were discontinued and in their place an annual out-of-door horse show has since been held under the auspices of the Hunt upon one of the meadows of the Home Farm at Geneseo. The entries, which have been restricted to hunters and horses likely to make hunters and to breeding classes of the same type, usually numbered in the neighbor- hood of one hundred and fifty and in quality have been unsurpassed and rarely equaled at any American horse show.


During the season of 1898 while the Spanish war was in progress Major W. A. Wadsworth was in the Philippines with General Merrit's expedition, and the hounds were hunted by James Blower, a professional huntsman, with J. S. Wadsworth acting as Master. Except for this, Major W. A. Wadsworth has hunted the hounds continuously since the death of Mr. Charles Carroll Fitzhugh and has always maintained them at his own expense. The county during the season has been hunted regularly three days a week and from ten to twenty couples of hounds have been kept in the kennels.


A Meet in the Early Days of the Hunt Club-January, 1886. Major Wadsworth is on a Gray Horse ; the Other Riders reading from left to right are : Hartman, Doty, Lauderdale, Scanlan, Potter, Mahoney.


The M. F. H. at the Homestead with the Pack.


CHAPTER XXVII.


LIVINGSTON'S MEDICAL PROFESSION. Livingston County Medical Society.


T HIS Society was organized in Geneseo on May 29, 1821, by the following physicians and surgeons: Charles Little and Jared B. Ensworth, Avon; Justin Smith, Lima; Samuel Daniels, Elkanah French and Eli Hill, Livonia; Royal Tyler and John W. Leonard, York; Cyrus Wells, Jr., Geneseo.


Dr. Charles Little was chairman of the meeting and Dr. Justin Smith secretary, and the following officers for the first society year were chosen ; President, Charles Little; Vice President, Justin Smith ; Secretary, Cyrus Wells, Jr., Treasurer, Samuel Daniels.


At that time the proportion of licensed practitioners (by state and county societies) to graduates of medical colleges was about two to one. £ Therefore the first code of by-laws adopted by the society pro- vided for a committee of three consisting of the president, secretary and a censor, to examine students with reference to their educational qualifications to study medicine, and give certificates to those deserv- ing them. It was also provided that candidates for license to practice must give notice to the president and censors fifteen days before examination, show that they had studied medicine and surgery the length of time required by law with one or more legal practitioners, and that they were twenty-one years of age and of good moral charac- ter. They were also required to pass examinations in materia medica and pharmacy, anatomy, physiology, and the theory and prac- tice of medicine, and candidates for surgery practice in anatomy and surgery. If the examinations were satisfactory they would be entitled to diplomas. Each new member must, at the next meeting of the society after his admission, deliver a dissertation on a subject pertain- ing to medical science. Dissertations were also required from new members coming from other counties. Each président was required, at the expiration of his term of office, to deliver an address on some


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medical subject, and in case of failure to pay a fine of $25. By-laws adopted in 1829 required the delegate to the convention of the state society to deliver an address before the county society or forfeit $20.


Of course the rules were changed from time to time.


In 1830 the society passed resolutions against intemperance in the use of distilled liquors, as "a great moral and physical evil," and declaring that "the popular opinion that a common use of ardent spirits renders the system less subject to the diseases of this climate" was "a dangerous and in many cases a fatal error," and that intem- perate persons were "more liable to be attacked" by such diseases, and their intemperance made the diseases "uniformly of a more dangerous and intractable character."


These were among the first pronouncements by a medical society against the common use of spirits.


The society held regular annual and semi-annual meetings until 1834, when they were omitted until 1841 and then resumed. This was the period when physicians were agitated on the subject of homeop- athy, the new school having put in its claims for legal recognition, which was accorded it by the legislature of 1844. The action of the county society in that year in anticipation of such legislation is inter- esting. in that it adopted and had forwarded to the legislative commit- tee on medical colleges a resolution urging "the abolition of all laws in relation to the practice of physic and surgery." At this meeting it was also resolved to adjourn sine die, and that the society funds on hand be expended for books for the medical library room in Geneseo established by James Wadsworth.


The meetings were again discontinued, this time from 1844 to 1852, when the society was re-organized on the 28th of September, in Gen- eseo, the following physicians and surgeons being present: D. H. Bissell, T. Morse, J. B. Purchase, A. L. Gilbert, S. L. Endress, W. E. Lauderdale, William C. Dwight, W. H. Sellew. E. W. Patchen, B. L. Hovey, Z. H. Blake, A. W. Mercer, A. H. Hoff, L. J. Ames, B. F. Fowler. Dr. A. H. Hoff was chosen chairman, and B. F. Fowler secretary.


Officers were elected and new by-laws adopted, and again regular meetings were held until 1858, when there was another interim until January, 1864. At this meeting a new fee bill was adopted to cor- respond with the times, two others having been previously adopted.


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There were no more meetings held until July, 1867, when correspond- ence brought together Drs. Blake, Patchin, Perine, Purchase, Ben- nett, Mills, Lauderdale and Chase. Dr. Lauderdale was chosen chair- man and Dr. Chase secretary, and resolutions were adopted calling an annual meeting of the Livingston County Medical Society on Septem- ber 18, 1867.


New fee bills were adopted in 1868 and 1873.


In 1874 the Legislature in a measure put up the barriers taken down in 1844, so far as to discriminate against quackery, but not against regular schools of medicine. Practitioners were required by the law of 1874 to have a license from a medical society or to be a graduate from a medical college. May 29, 1880, an act was passed by the Legislature requiring medical practitioners to register in the County Clerk's office on or before October 1, 1880, their name, residence, place of birth and authority for practicing. Both these laws make illegal practice punishable by fine or imprisonment or both. Subse- quent laws have further increased the stringency of requirements for obtaining diplomas and engaging in practice.


The following is a list of the early presidents of the society so far as recorded, with the dates of their service-that is from 1821 to 1843 inclusive, or before the sine die adjournment.


Charles Little. 1821, 1833


Daniel H. Bissell. 1832, 1837, 1839


Justin Smith. 1822 E. P. Metcalf


1834, 1836


Caleb Chapin. 1823


S. Salisbury, Jr. 1835, 1840


Charles Bingham. 1824, 1829 Joseph Tozier. 1838


E. Hill. 1825, 1828


Gilbert Bogart. 1841


Samuel Daniels 1826, 1827


William H. Reynale. 1842, 1867


Cyrus Wells, Jr


1830


John S. Graham.


.1843


Andrew Sill. 1831


Here follows, also, a list of the members of the society for the same period, with locations, so far as recorded, and the dates of joining :


Ariel Alvord 1833


John Currie, Caledonia. .1830


Milton Alvord. 1828


Samuel Daniels, Livonia. 1821


Loren J. Ames, Mt. Morris. 1813


Aaron Davis, Mt. Morris 1842


Avery Benedict 1822


Asel Day, Sparta. 1824


Ebenezer Childs, Mt. Morris


1840


E. C. Day. . 1822


Josiah Clark, Caledonia


1828


Joel W. Clark, Livonia. 1830


Lyman N. Cook, Sparta 1821


John Craig, York .. 1840


John Reid Craig, York .. 1842


Amos Crandall, Jr., Livonia. 1832


Daniel H. Bissell, Moscow 1823


Alonzo Cressy, Lima 1830


David D. Dayton. 1843


George O. J. Du Relle, York. 18 39


Wm. C. Dwight, Moscow ... 1829


Charles Bingham, Mt. Morris. I821 Eben H. Bishop 1829


Daniel P. Bissell, Moscow 1828


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Gilbert Bogart, Mt. Morris. 1829


J. R. Bowers, Mt. Morris 1828


WVm. Butler, Lima .... 1833


Geo. W. Little, Lima. 1823


Josiah Long, York 1541


Lockwood Lyon, Groveland. 1829


Truman E. Mason. 1835


James Mc Master, Livonia. 1828


David McMillen, Conesus .. 1822


E. H. G. Meacham, Mt. Morris. 1843


Elias P. Metcalf, Geneseo. 1829


Isaac Minard.


1839


W'm. Beers Munson,. 1830


John B. Norton, Springwater. I827


Zina G. Paine, York.


1831


Asa R. Palmer


1822


Edward W. Patchen, Livonia. 1840


Enoch Peck, York 1824


Abijah E. Perry. 1828


W'm. S. Purdy, Lima .. IS 34


Wm. H. Reynale, Dansville. 1827


J. H. Robinson, Conesus.


1823


Samuel Salisbury, Jr., Avon.


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Wells H. Sellew, Moscow 1828


Levi D. Seymour, Leicester 1842


Lester G. Shepard. 1822


Andrew Sill, Livonia. 1827


Athelstein W. Smith, Springwater. .. 1841


Justin Smith, Lima .. 1821


Frederick R. Stickney York.


1841


Daniel C. Stilwell, Livonia.


1831


Wm. H. Thomas, Mt. Morris 1841


Absalom Townsend, Cuylerville 1843


W'm. A. Townsend.


IS21


Joseph Tozier, York


1829


Royal Tyler, York


I824


Walter Wallace.


1840


Joseph Weeks, Sparta


1842


Cyrus Wells, Jr., Geneseo.


.1821


Harlow W Wells, Caledonia


1842


J. F. Whitbeck, Avon. .1835


J. C. Landon, Geneseo. 1825


Walter E. Lauderdale, Sparta 1829


John W. Leonard, York. I821


Charles Little, Avon. 1821


Wm. C. Butler, Avon 1842


A. C. Campbell, Sparta. 1841


Alex Campbell ..


.1838


Duncan Campbell, Caledonia 1842


T. A. Campbell. 1832


John Campbell, Livonia. 1828


John A. Campbell, Lima. 1829


Samuel Carmen, Livonia. 1823


Peter T. Caton, Livonia. 1840


Caleb Chapin, I821


Samuel L. Endress, Dansville 1829


Jared D. Ensworth, Avon. 1821


Horatio N. Fenn. .1824


Lewis G. Ferris, Mt. Morris


1840


Graham N. Fitch, Caledonia


1833


Henry K. Foote, Conesus .1830


Elkanah French, Livonia. 1821


Samuel Gallantine, Mt. Morris 1843


H. S. Gates. 1836


John S. Graham, York 1830


Abraham Grant .. 1830


Arnold Gray, Springwater


1827


Joel Gray. Geneseo .. I841


Orlando S. Gray, Springwater.


1835


James Green, York ..


1825


Wm. T. Green, Livonia


1827


Benajah Hansan, York


1828


Francis L. Harris, Geneseo.


1832


Eli Hill, Livonia. 1821


Wm. Holloway, York. 1822


Bleeker L. Hovey, Sparta. 842


Isaiah B. Hudmutt Jr., West Sparta18 35


Julius M. Hume, Conesus 18 34


Hiram Hunt, Mt. Morris


1827


John S. Hunt, Sparta.


1842


Isaac W. Hurd, Sparta. 1829


Robert Kelsey.


1838


Wm. Whitney, Mt. Morris.


.1840


Asahel Yale, Dansville.


1824


The following biographical notes of county physicians and surgeons, prepared from such materials as we have been able to obtain, are added.


Dr. Francis M. Perine, grandson of Captain William Perine, a sol- dier of the Revolution and Dansville pioneer, was born in Dansville in 1831. He studied medicine with Dr. Endress of Dansville and gradu- ated from the Buffalo Medical College in March, 1855. He practiced medicine nearly half a century, five or six years in Byersville, and the balance of the time in Dansville. He held the office of coroner twenty-


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William A. Wadsworth, M. F. H., and the Hounds.


FINDING THE SCENT ... A LO\ HUNT SCIAC IN THE GENESEE VALLEY.


The Genesee Valley Hunt Pack at Work.


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one years. He was a prominent member of the Livingston County Historical Society and was its president in 1886. He was for years a member of the Dansville board of education. He died in 1904.


Dr. William P. Squires was born in Churchville in 1865. His later education preparatory to medical study was in the Brockport State Normal school and Cazenovia Seminary. In 1896 he graduated from the medical department of the University of Buffalo, standing second in a class of sixty-two. He served eight months in the Buffalo Gen- eral Hospital, and later graduated from the New York City Maternity Hospital. He has also taken special courses in surgery in the New York Post Graduate Medical school. He commenced practice in Livonia in 1897, where he is now located.


Dr. Charles J. Carrick was born in Portage in 1859. After a course in Nunda Academy he studied under private tutors, and then en- tered Buffalo University, from the medical department of which he graduated in 1885. He practiced in Portageville, two years in Hast- ings, Nebraska, and established himself permanently in Nunda in 1889.


Dr. John A. Mckenzie was born in Caledonia in 1852. He became a pupil in the State Normal School at Geneseo, and was a teacher in various schools of Livingston county thirteen terms. Finally he was attracted to the medical profession, and after studying a year with Dr. Cyrus Baker of Batavia, entered the New York Medical College, and graduated from it in 1884. He selected Lima for medical prac- tice, and is established in that village of academical and collegiate fame.


Dr. G. T. Borden is a practitioner in Caledonia. He was born in Massachusetts in 1853, and was educated in the public schools and Portland Collegiate Institute before studying medicine in the Hanne- man Medical College of Philadelphia, from which he graduated. in 1873.


Dr. John C. Preston was born in Avon in 1867. A part of his edu- cation was obtained in the Geneseo State Normal School, and he graduated from the medical department of the Buffalo University in 1892. His medical practice has been in Avon, where he has served as health officer several years.


Dr. Francis Vernon Foster is a Springwater physician. He was born in Scottsburg in 1869, and after receiving a common school edu-


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cation entered the Eclectic Medical College of New York, and grad- uated from it in 1892. He first practiced with his father, Dr. D. H. Foster of Scottsburg, but has been located since 1896 in Springwater, where he is health physician.


Dr. Edward Cornelius Perry was born in Connecticut in 1865. He obtained part of his education in that state, and part in Montreal, Canada, and afterward graduated from Cazenovia Seminary, N. Y. He graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1892, after losing two years during his course on account of illness. He practiced a few months at Nelson, N. Y., and then settled in Avon, where he has since remained. He has been one of the presidents of the county medical society, has held the positions of health officer and coroner, and for ten years has been one of the surgeons of the Erie railroad. He now has a prosperous hospital in Avon for the treat- ment of nervous diseases.


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One of the Caledonia physicians is Dr. DeForest Cole. He was born in Jefferson county in 1854, but his parents moved to Steuben county in 1855, and he received his early education there in the dis- trict schools and in Woodhull academy. He attended lectures in the medical department of the University of New York, and graduated later at the Hanneman Medical College of Chicago. He then engaged in practice at Morrisville, and in 1890 took a post graduate course in Hanneman hospital. After practicing awhile in Albion and Batavia he went to Caledonia in 1899. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy and the Western New York Homeopathic Medical Society.




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