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The range of study has been gradually increased until it now includes three courses,-the elementary English, the advanced English, and the classical. The first occupies two years. The first year is devoted to the ordinary elementary English studies, but taught in the objective manner before described. The second year is given up entirely to studies bearing on modes of instruction and to practice in the training-school.
To be admitted to the advanced English course, students must pass a thorough examination in all the studies of the first year in the elementary English course. The first year of the advanced course embraces algebra, geometry, chemis- try, and other important studies. The second is nearly the same as the corresponding year of the elementary coursc, with instruction in moral philosophy and physical geog- raphy.
The classical course covers three years; besides which, in order to obtain admission, the pupil must pass a satisfac- tory examination in the studies of the first " elementary" year. The first " classical" year is nearly the same as the first "advanced," with the addition of Latin. The second " classical" is occupied principally by Latin, natural phi-
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losophy, physical geography, and Greek or modern lan- guages. The final year gives practice in training-school and methods of teaching, without omitting Latin, Greek, and geology.
Students possessing the requisite age and qualifications, and who can pass the prescribed examination, may be ad- mitted to the class of any year in any course, but no one can graduate from a course without having passed through its last or professional year. A pupil who satisfactorily completes either one of the courses receives a diploma, which serves as a license to teach in all the public schools of the State, and makes a license from a commissioner un- necessary. There has never been an " academical" depart- ment in this school,-that is to say, a department in which no portion of the time is devoted to strictly professional instruction,-and the late order of the State superintendent discontinuing those departments does not affect the Oswego school.
The school-year consists of two terms of twenty weeks each. Scholars may enter school in either September or February, graduate in either February or June. There is a fair-sized library of text and miscellaneous books, and an ample complement of chemical and philosophical apparatus. A large boarding-house is provided at a short distance from the school, which is under the supervision of the teachers, and at which the non-resident lady pupils are expected to board, except in special cases.
We elose our sketch of this important institution with the officials of the present year.
The local board is composed of Gilbert Mollison, presi- dent; John K. Post, secretary ; Daniel G. Fort, treasurer; Samuel B. Johnson, Benjamin Doolittle, Theodore Irwin, Alanson S. Page, John M. Barron, Delos De Wolf, Thomas S. Mott, Abner C. Mattoon, Thompson Kingsford.
Besides Edward A. Sheldon, A.M., Ph.D., who has been the principal from the beginning, and who may be considered the founder of the school, so far as any one man can be credited with that honor, the faculty consists of Henry A. Straight, A.M .; Isaac B. Poucher, A.M .; Herman Krüsi, A.M. ; Mary V. Lee, M.D; Matilda S. Cooper, F. Elizabeth Sheldon, Emma D. Straight, Ordelia A. Lester, Mary E. Moore, Rose Whitney, Martha A. Keeler, Sarah J. Walter, and S. Ida Williams.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE COMMON SCHOOLS.
School Commissioners' Distriets-Table of Schools, Teachers, Chil- dren, and Attendance-Wages-Libraries-Present Condition.
FOR the management of its common schools Oswego County is divided into three school-commissioners' distriets, besides the city, which has its separate board of education and superintendent. A sketch of the city schools is given in the city history, and some mention is made in each of the towns of the earliest schools taught within it. In this chapter we present a brief abstract of the present condition of the schools of Oswego County, outside of the city, for which we are indebted to the courtesy of the commissioners,
Messrs. Robert Simpson, Jr., of the first district, Fowler H. Berry, of the second, and J. W. Ladd, of the third.
First District.
Numberof Schools.
Number of Teachers.
Children Lween 5 and 21.
Average Daily Attendance.
Granby ...
20
99
1,602
622
Hannibal.
15
18
995
138
New Haven ...
12
12
618
228
Oswego ...
15
16
1,036
355
Scriba.
17
17
1,092
438
Volney.
17
29
1,955
766
Second District.
Amboy ...
7
7
380
163
Constantin
13
1,119
385
Ilastings,
16
19
1,021
495
Parish
13
15
719
321
Palermo ..
13
13
613
214
Schroeppel.
16
1,110
551
West Monroe ...
8
8
524
199
Third District.
Albion ...
14
15
818
314
Boylston
8
8
371
131
Mexico.
19
21
1,075
442
Orwell.
11
11
487
180
Redfield.
10
526
189
Richland
22
26
1,313
518
Sandy Creek
14
20
932
396
Williamstown ...
9
10
755
257
Total ....
289
336
19,067
7,66l
There are several union and graded schools in the county, of which mention is made in their respective towns. About three-fourths of the whole number of persons between five and twenty-one actually attend school at some period of the year, though the average daily attendance while school is taught is only forty per cent. of the whole number. Wages, though varying greatly, are reported to average about five dollars per week in summer, and eight in winter. School libraries, unfortunately, are generally in a dilapidated con- dition, and the larger part of the districts use the library money to help pay the teachers. In other respects the schools are reported to be flourishing, both numbers and zeal being manifestly on the increase.
CHAPTER XXXV.
RELIGION AND TEMPERANCE.
Formation of the Oswego County Bible Society-Curions Facts- Names of the Presidents-Present Officers-Object of the Society- Payments to the American Bible Society-Depository and Branches -Organization of the County Lodge of Good Templars-First Officers-The Succession of Presidents-The Present Officers.
THE Oswego County Bible Society was formed in January, 1826. The American Bible Society had then been in existence ten years, but its work had been compar- atively small, and an interest in its benevolent operations was then only just beginning to be awakened. The records of the Oswego County society prior to the 15th of Sep- tember, 1840, are lost, but the following extract from a circular issued just after its organization, in 1826, shows the necessity for its formation :
" As a preliminary step to the formation of this society, a partial investigation of the county was effected to ascer- tain the deficiency of Bibles ; the surprising result of which was that one-fourth of the families in this county do not possess an entire copy of the Holy Scriptures, a large portion
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of whom have no part of the Bible in their houses. In one of the school districts in this town, containing sixty families, twenty-nine were destitute. In another town of this county thirty-six families out of one hundred and six were found destitute. From all the returns which have been received, it appears that eight hundred and ninety-four families have been investigated, and of them two hundred and fifty-one are put down as partially or entirely destitute of the Word of Life."
The society was recognized as an auxiliary of the Amer- ican Bible Society in March, 1826; but where the first meetings were held, or who were the first officers, cannot be ascertained. Rev. Oliver Ayer was elected president in 1827, and it is not certain but he was its first one. The next year Rev. Jason Lathrop was chosen to the same position. Rev. Ralph Robinson was elected president in 1829, and was successively re-elected for the next three years. The succession of presidents since that time has been as follows : 1833-35, Rev. Robert W. Condit ; 1836- 39, Rev. Robert W. Condit ; 1840-43, Rev. Ralph Robin- inson ; 1844, Rev. Gardner Baker; 1845, Mr. Luther Pardee ; 1846, Hon. George F. Falley; 1847-48, Judge Elias Brewster; 1849, Dr. Newell Wright; 1850, Hamilton Murray, Esq .; 1851-52, Hon. William F. Allen ; 1853, Hon. Ransom H. Tyler ; 1854, Hon. James Platt ; 1856, Hon. L. B. Crocker; 1857, Dr. M. Lindley Lee ; 1858, W. I. Preston; 1859, Prof. J. P. Griffin ; 1860, Mr. Ralph Robinson ; 1861-62, Hon. William F. Allen ; 1863- 67, Hon. Ransom H. Tyler; 1868-72, Gilbert Mollison, Esq .; 1873, Hon. Cyrus Whitney ; 1874, Hon. T. W. Skinner ; 1875, Col. W. D. Smith ; 1876, John B. Edwards, Esq. ; 1877, J. G. Benedict.
The present officers of the society are J. G. Benedict, president ; Charles T. Benedict, L. R. Muzzy, and W. H. Kenyon, vice-presidents ; Frank S. Thrall, recording secre- tary ; L. E. Goulding, corresponding secretary ; J. H. Coe, treasurer and depositary ; Gilbert Mollison, S. W. Brewster, Mannister Worts, O. M. Bond, O. J. Harmon, Thomas Mathews, executive committee ; F. B. Lathrop, George Goodier, auditing committee.
The object of the society, as declared by its constitution, is to promote the circulation of the Holy Scriptures, " with- out note or comment." As to membership, it is provided that all persons contributing to its funds annually shall be members ; that those contributing one dollar or more shall receive, if called for within twelve months, a common Bible ; and that those contributing ten dollars at one time, or five dollars for two consecutive years, shall become mem- bers for life, and entitled annually to fifty cents' worth of Bibles or Testaments.
All funds not needed for circulating the Scriptures within the county are paid over annually to the parent society, to be used in distributing Bibles wherever needed. The receipts for the year ending June, 1876, were seven hundred and fifty-one dollars and ninety-three cents, of which seven hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy- four cents were paid to the American Bible Society. The Oswego society has a depository at Oswego, and branches at Sandy Creek, Hannibal, Fulton, Mexico, Sand Bank, and Williamstown.
The total value of the books at these points in June, 1876, was eleven hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-eight cents.
The Oswego County Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars was organized on the 20th day of De- cember, 1870, with the following officers: County Chief Templar, S. C. Weeks; County Vice-Templar, Helen M. Coe ; County Secretary, W. J. Dougall ; County Assistant Secretary, Mrs. W. J. Dougall; County Financial Secre- tary, Julia A. Ames; County Treasurer, L. P. Storms ; County Marshal, C. R. Groesbeck ; County Deputy Mar- shal, Mrs. Lizzie Redding ; County Chaplain, Rev. J. H. Allsever ; County I. G., Mrs. May Chapman; County O. G., E. N. Menter; R. H. S., Miss L. E. Wadleigh ; L. H. S., Miss E. Redding.
The county lodge is composed of delegates elected from each of the subordinate lodges in the county. It has held meetings quarterly from organization to the present time ; meeting with the various subordinate lodges, and doing all in its power to promote the cause of temperance and good morals. There are now ten subordinate lodges in the county, with about five hundred members. The successive County Chief Templars have been as follows : S. C. Weeks, 1871-72; Albert Potter, 1873-74 ; S. C. Weeks, 1875-77.
The following are the officers for the year 1877 : C. C. T., S. C. Weeks; C. V. T., Mrs. O. D. Austin ; C. Sec., C. W. Cogswell; Assistant Secretary, A. Beardsley ; C. T., John Cooper ; C. Chaplain, B. Gleason ; C. M., C. Wright; D. M., Mrs. R. J. Dimon ; R. H. S., Mrs. Hannah Smith; L. H. S, Mrs. J. Cooper.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
MEDICAL SOCIETIES.
Oswego County Medical Society : First Members and Officers ; Progress : Regulations, Meetings, etc. ; Code of Ethics; Present Officers; List of Presidents; List of Members-Homeopathic Medical Society : First Officers and Members; List of Presidents ; Present Officers and Members-Eclectic Medical Society : Its Organization ; First Officers; Reorganization ; The Eclectic Creed ; Present Officers.
" THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF OS- WEGO."-The above is the official title of the association in question, though it is more commonly designated as The Oswego County Medical Society. It was organized in June, 1821, and, so far as known, the following were the only members present : Anson Fay, of Volney ; S. F. Kin- ney, of New Haven ; Allen Andrews, of Pulaski; - Gridley, of -; Sardius Brewster, of Mexico; Benjamin Coe, of Oswego ; and L. Cowan, of Volney. As, how- ever, the records have been twice burned in ten years, it is possible that some names have been omitted.
For the same reason the names of the first officers can- not be given, though from the scant number of members they doubtless all held official rank. Even the names of the presidents for 1821 and 1822 eannot be found in the society's manual. The president in 1823 was Allen An- drews, of Pulaski.
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From 1821 to the present year the number of members has steadily grown until, instead of seven, there are now fifty-eight on the society's register. Two of these are ladies, female members being admitted on equal terms with males.
Four members joined in 1822, seven in 1823, four in 1824, two in 1825, four in 1826, and four in 1827. In 1828 there seems to have been a regular "revival" in the way of joining the society, no less than seventeen having enrolled their names in that year, while in 1829 there were only fonr. No subsequent year has equaled 1828 in that respect. The total number of physicians who have been members of the society since its organization is over a hun- dred and sixty ; but of these a large majority have died or left the county.
The officers of the society are a president, a vice-presi- dent, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, a treasurer, a librarian, and five censors, who are chosen annually .by ballot. The society also elects annually five delegates to the American medical association, and five to the Central New York medical association. The annual meeting is held on the second Tuesday in June, at which officers are elected ; besides which, there is a semi-annual meeting on the second Tuesday in December of each year. Special meetings may also be called by the president, or, in his absence, by the vice-president. Meetings are held at various localities throughout the county.
At these meetings discussions are held regarding inter- esting questions in medicine and surgery, new members elected, charges examined, etc. A member can only be convicted of misconduct by a vote of two-thirds of the members present, at a special meeting called to investigate the charges; after which he may be reprimanded, sns- pended, or expelled, by a majority vote.
It is the duty of the censors to examine every candidate for a license to practice medicine or surgery, who shall have complied with the requisitions of the laws of the State (on payment of five dollars for the society), and, if he be found qualified, to give him a certificate to that effect, addressed to the president, who thereupon confers a diploma upon him.
Any physician or surgeon, practicing in Oswego County, may become a member, on payment of one dollar to the treasurer, if a majority of the censors shall certify that he is entitled to practice, and if, on being balloted for at an annual meeting, he shall receive the votes of a majority of the members present.
The code of ethics of the American medical association, and that of the State medical society of New York, are made binding on the members of the Oswego County medi- cal association by its by-laws, and the intentional violation of these precepts is considered good cause for discipline. Misconduct is not only theoretically, but actually, punished, and six or eight members have been expelled for violations of duty.
The following is a list of the officers and delegates chosen at the last annual meeting, held at Oswego June 12, 1877, to serve during the ensuing year : President, R. N. Cooley, of Hannibal ; Vice-President, J. W. Eddy, of Oswego ; Recording Secretary, J. K. Stockwell, of Oswego; Corre- sponding Secretary, George P. Johnson, of Mexico; Treas- urer, G. C. Bacon, of Fulton ; Librarian, A. S. Low, of
Pulaski; Censors, D. Pardee, George W. Nelson, I. 1 .. Jones, A. A. Desanliners, and D. Acker ; Delegates to the American Medical Association, J. K. Stoekwell, C. M. Lee, T. J. Green, F. S. Low, and William II. Rice; Delegates to the Central New York Association, HI. W. Caldwell, N. W. Bates, H. E. Baleom, II. D. C. Phelps, and B. De Witt.
The following members of the Oswego County medical society have been duly clected by the Medical Society of the State of New York as permanent members of that honorable body : Benjamin E. Bowen, of Mexico ; A. Van Dyck, of Oswego; G. A. Dayton, of Mexico ; Charles G. Bacon, of Fulton ; Anstin White, of Parish ; James B. Murdoch, of Oswego; Frank S. Low, of Pulaski ; William H. Rice, of Phoenix; and C. C. P. Clark, of Oswego.
The following is a list of the presidents from 1823 to 1877, so far as known : Allen Andrews, 1823; Anson Fay, 1827 ; S. F. Kinney, 1830; E. S. Barrows, 1831; P. H. Hard, 1832; H. F. Noyes, 1835; B. E. Bowen, 1836; S. Brewster, 1837; R. Howard, 1838; A. Gardiner, 1839 ; S. Hart, 1841 ; J. M. Watson, 1842; A. K. Beckwith, 1843; H. Murdoch, 1844; S. Brewster, 1845; P. Il. Hard, 1846; S. Pardee, 1847; A. Van Dyck, 1848; C. G. Bacon, 1849; B. E. Bowen, 1850; A. White, 1851; A. Williams, 1852; A. B. Coe, 1853; T. J. Green, 1854; J. P. Rosa, 1855 ; G. A. Dayton, 1856 ; M. R. Holbrook, 1857; John Hart, 1858; S. G. Place, 1859; Franklin Everts, 1960; A. S. Coe, 1861 ; D. Pardee, 1862; C. C. P. Clark, 1863; J. B. Murdoch, 1864, 1865 ; M. Bradbury, 1866; F. S. Low, 1867 ; C. M. Lee, 1868; G. A. Dayton, 1869; William H. Rice, 1870; L. L. Stevens, 1871 ; Car- rington Macfarlane, 1872; J. L. Buckley, 1873; D. T. Whyborn, 1874; A. S. Coe, 1875; D. D. Drake, 1876; R. N. Cooley, 1877.
The following is a chronological list of the members from the organization of the society to the present time, with the date of admission, and residence, when known :
1821 .- Anson Fay, Volney ; S. F. Kinney, New Haven; Allen Andrews, Pulaski ; - Gridley, Sardius Brewster, Mexico; Benjamin Coe, Oswego ; L. Cowan, Volney.
1822 .- S. Dunlop, Samuel Torbutt, Williamstown ; H. G. Torbutt, Williamstown; Samuel Freeman, Williamstown.
1823 .- D. W. Cole, Oswego; II. Smith, Constantia ; Darius Clark, Seriba ; J. A. Paine, Lyman Huntley, Ran- som Howard, Volney; Al. Frederick Smith, Mexico.
1824 .- P. H. Hard, Oswego; Samuel Hart, Oswego; Silas Meacham, Pulaski; W. Steward, New Haven.
1825 .- Bushnell B. Carey, H. Dewey, Scriba.
1826 .- A. S. Bradley, Fulton ; D. Robinson, Mexico ; A. Ilowland, Oswego; John M. Watson, Pulaski.
1827 .- Elisha Moore, Mexico; D.G. Ayre, Sandy Creek ; II. F. Noyes, Pulaski ; Justin Morgan, Richland.
1828 .- H. Perkins, A. L. Cooper, - Owen, Isaac Whittemore, Pulaski ; J. Douglas, Scriba; L. Root, Lucius Van Schaik, Oswego; H. P. Van Valkenburg, Volney ; J. II. Richmond, Parish ; Arden Allen, Hannibal ; Egbert S. Barrows, Oswego; Samuel K. Lee, J. Hewett, Oswego ; J. K. Thurber, Oswego ; John G. Ayre, Sandy Creek ; Hongh, N. Tift.
1829 .- Wm. G. Adkins, Oswego; Timothy Goodwin, R. B. Root, Mexico.
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1830 .- E. Palmer, Mexico ; A. F. Kent, Hannibal ; David L. Hardy, Granby ; N. F. Bruce, Oswego; N. W. Lathrop.
1831 .- M. L. Lee, Fulton ; J. Steele, Mexico ; A. Steele, Volney ; T. S. Gilbert, Orwell; Dolson Morton, Orwell ; Abiatha Gardiner, Mexico; - Webster, Hastings ; E. G. Mygatt, A. White, Parish.
1832 .- P. Sprague, Hannibal ; J. P. Rosa, Albion.
1833 .- A. Goodwin, Mexico; Caleb Burge, Sandy Creek ;
A. K. Beckwith, Palermo ; S. O. Thompson, Sandy Creek.
1834 .- L. Wellington, Williamstown; M. Ostrander, Mexico ; Chas. W. Mitchell, Oswego.
1835 .- Wm. M. Baker, Scriba ; Daniel P. Stryker, Han- nibal ; Wm. James Goulding, Oswego; O. W. Randall, Schroeppel ; A. E. Noble, Palermo; Benjamin E. Bowen, Mexico ; Stephen Pardee, Fulton.
1836 .- Wm. S. Randall, Benj. A. Rosseau, Scriba.
1837 .- Joseph H. Bagg, Oswego; Lucien M. Haynes.
1838 .- Lewis M. Yale, Scriba; Richard M. Clark, Han- nibal ; J. H. Skinner, Hannibal.
1839 .- T. Secor, Volney ; H. Murdoch, Richland ; E. A. Potter, Oswego; James A. Thompson, Sandy Creek ; Alex. M. Charles, Eleab M. Joslin, New Haven ; Uri Lee, Amboy.
1841 .- A. W. Robinson, New Haven; Joseph R. Brown, Schroeppel.
1842 .- D. Conger, Phoenix ; A. Whaley, Mexico; S. G. Place, Southwest Oswego; H. A. Skinner, C. G. Bacon, Fulton ; Lyman Osborne, Hannibal ; M. Tuttle, Hannibal.
1843 .- Wm. J. Acker, Hannibal; Alfred Rice, Han- nibal ; Gilson A. Dayton, Mexico.
1844 .- James V. Kendall, Pulaski; A. Van Dyck, Oswego ; Justin B. Colwell, Oswego.
1845 .- Joseph H. Allen, Oswego ; J. Marble, Hastings ; A. B. Coe, Oswego.
1846 .- A. Read, Oswego ; A. C. Livingston, Fulton ; Wm. C. Coy, Schroeppel.
1847 .- S. Inman, Williamstown.
1848 .- N. Williams, Phoenix ; A. B. Howe, Orwell ; S. Avery, Phoenix.
1849 .- A. M. Dunton, Oswego ; George W. Snyder, Scriba ; C. Porter, Fulton.
1850 .- Daniel Neugent, Wm. H. Rice, Phoenix.
1851 .- M. Bradbury, Mexico ; M. R. Holbrook, Fulton.
1852 .- Wm. M. Skinner, Orwell ; Robt. Scott, Oswego ; R. C. Baldwin, Volney ; T. J. Green, Parish.
1853 .- John Hart, Oswego.
1855 .- A. S. Coe, Oswego ; N. B. Rice, Fulton ; J. C. Rhodes, Oswego; C. Ford, Parish ; A. P. Williams, Phoenix.
1856 .- Lucius Stevens, Constantia ; Franklin Evarts, Oswego; S. W. Austin, Oswego; J. B. Murdoch, Oswego ; D. B. Van Slyke, Central Square.
1857 .- D. Pardee, Fulton ; S. D. Andrews, Oswego Falls; C. S. Waters, Fulton.
1858 .- C. C. P. Clark, Oswego; F. S. Low, Pulaski ; Wm. H. Rulison, Parish.
1861 .- Geo. W. Earle, Hastings; S. P. Johnson, New Haven ; C. Mudge, Fulton ; F. A. Sherman, Sand Banks. 1862 .- E. A. Huntington, Mexico.
1863 .- Charles M. Lee, Fulton.
1864 .- Ira L. Jones, Minetto.
1865 .- Chas. J. Bacon, Fulton ; Byron De Witt, Os- wego; George Seymour, Pulaski ; L. O. Huntington, Palermo ; D. D. Becker, Parish.
1866 .- Geo. G. Whittaker, New Haven ; Isaac Morell, Fulton ; D. T. Whyborn, Cleveland ; J. Lyman Bulkley, Sandy Creck ; Joseph Gardiner, Williamstown ; C. Mac- farlane, Oswego; D. D. Drake, Central Square; N. W. Bates, Central Square.
1867 .- L. C. Mitchell, Sand Banks; Ed. M. Curtis, Oswego ; S. P. Kingston, Oswego; Joseph Pero, West Amboy.
1868 .- George P. Johnson, Mexico.
1869 .- A. B. Bowen, Mexico ; S. J. Crockett, Oswego ; Dillon Acker, Hannibal.
1870 .- A. A. Desauliners, Oswego ; D. A. Lawton, Pulaski.
1871 .- J. K. Stockwell, Oswego; F. C. Durant, Oswego. 1872 .- R. N. Cooley, Hannibal Centre.
1873 .- George W. Nelson, Orwell.
1874 .- Mary K. Hutchins, Oswego; J. W. Eddy, Os- wego ; A. S. Low, Pulaski ; A. S. Rockwell, New Haven ; E. F. Kelley, Albion ; J. A. Griffen, Constantia ; J. J. Taylor, Parish ; A. L. Thompson, Sandy Creek ; H. D. C. Phelps, Palermo.
1875 .- J. N. Mease, Oswego ; A. P. Hamill, Phoenix ; Cyrus Haven, Hannibal.
1876 .- H. E. Balcom, Oswego ; R. M. O'Rielley, United States Army ; J. B. Todd, Parish ; H. H. Philbrick, Sandy Creek ; H. W. Caldwell, Pulaski ; George E. Carpenter, Sand Bank.
1877 .- George H. Whitcomb, Phoenix ; E. A. Mattoon, Oswego ; Chas. E. Heaton, Mexico; J. W. Huntington, Mexico ; Ella M. Whittaker, New Haven.
THE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY OF OSWEGO COUNTY .- This society was organized on the 22d of Janu- ary, 1862. The officers who were elected at that time were E. A. Potter, president ; A. F. Rockwell, vice-president ; F. W. Potter, T. D. Stowe, and W. L. Woodbury, censors.
The members of the society at that time were E. A. Potter, W. L. Woodbury, A. F. Rockwell, F. W. Potter, Augustus Pool, T. Dwight Stowe, and Wm. W. Rundell.
The succession of presidents has been as follows: E. A. Potter in 1861-63; Augustus Pool in 1864-66; E. A. Potter in 1867; G. D. MeManns in 1868; T. D. Stowe in 1869-71; L. B. Waldo in 1872; W. W. Rundell in 1873; Wm. L. Woodbury in 1874; E. A. Pool in 1875 ; W. L. Woodbury in 1876 ; Harriet Rundell in 1877.
The present officers of the society are Harriet Rundell, president ; Cathreen Townsend, vice-president; G. D. McManus, secretary and treasurer ; Drs. Pool, Woodbury, Rodway, and McManus, censors.
The present members of the society are Dr. W. L. Woodbury, Fulton; Dr. A. Pool, Oswego; Dr. G. D. McManus, Oswego; Dr. Cathreen Townsend, Oswego; Dr. Harriet Rundell, Mexico; Dr. C. W. Rodway, Dr. N. H. Haviland, Fulton; Dr. G. Smith, Phoenix.
ECLECTIC MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF OSWEGO .- The legislature having passed an act incorpo-
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HISTORY OF OSWEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK.
rating the Eclectic medical society of the State of New York, and auxiliary local medical associations, conferring on them all the powers and privileges of other medical societies, and subjecting them to the same responsibilities, in the summer of 1865 Dr. A. C. Taylor, then recently returned from service as an assistant-surgcon in the army, circulated a call for a meeting to organize an Oswego County Eelcetie medical society, and personally urged the members of that school of practice to take such action. The eclectic physicians generally entered into the movement, and on the 20th of September, 1865, an organization was effected at the office of Dr. C. D. Snell, in the village of Mexico.
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