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1863 .- Charles P. Achilles, William H. Bow- man, Charles H. Cherry, Martin W. Cooke, Wil- liam Graebe. W. W. Hegeman, Franeis I. Mather, William F. Peck, Charles F. Pond, James Ran, Archibald Servoss. W. S. Staples, George S. Tuck- erman.
1865,-William M. Bates, George W. Blackmore, Lyman W. Briggs, Sanford E. Church, James L. Clark, John M. Davy. Christopher C. Davison.
Joseph Felix, C. Hopgood, A. C. Hogoboom. Ralph O. Ives, Joseph L. Luckey, John C. O'Brien, Samuel S. Partridge, Otis H. Robinson, Richard H. Schooley, William J. Sheridan, Othello II. Stevens, Homer Stull, Edward Webster, William H. Webster, Menzo Van Voorhis.
1866 .- C. W. Baker, Oliver, M. Benedict, jr., M. Campbell, J. W. Kerr, HI. HI. Mason, William S. Oliver, E. S. Otis, Samuel Stevens, Joseph C. Wells, Henry Widner.
1867 .- W. G. Ashby, E. Burke Collins, G. S. Cutting, Dennis C. Feeley, John M. Dunning, W. H. Fish, Franklin B. Hutchinson, John W. Kelly. Donald McNaughton, Patrick McIntyre, George Raines.
1868 .- Alvin L. Barton, Josiah H. Bissell, Mil- ton H. Davis, Charles G. Hapgood, James S. Mathews, Sherman R. Robinson, William H. Shep- ard.
1869 .- John W. Deuel, Edward B. Fenner, Lewis J. Goddard, B. Frank Maxson, J. Breck Perkins, Edward Witherspoon.
1870 .- Charles M. Allen, John Clark, jr., Eph- raim C. Fish, James E. Cheney, jr., John E. Roe, J. P. Varnum, John W. Wilson, Lodowick M. Woodin.
1871 .- Henry N. Allen. J. Sherlock Andrews, James M. Angle, William H. Crouchen, Charles F. Dean, Charles H. Gorham, Daniel L. Johnston. William HI. Mitchell, Milton W. Noyes, John C. O'Regan, Jacob Spahn, Darrell D. Sully, Arthur D. Walbridge.
1872 .- William A. Combs, Joseph N. Crane, J. R. Fanning, James A. Jordan, John J. Palmer, James B. Pike, George W. Thomas, William K Townsend, 'Thomas E. White, William H. Yerkes.
1873 .- William E. Edmonds. George W. Fisher, .John S. Morgan, George F. Jackson, Charles J. McDowell, Edward F. Stilwell, George W. Sill, F. D. Tucker.
1824 .- Nathaniel Foote, jr .. William S. James, Meritt G. Mckinney. Marens Michaels, Eugene H Satterler.
1875 .- Walter W. Adams, Luther C. Benedict Horace L. Bennett, George A. Benton, Sardius D. Bentley, Marsenns H. Briggs, Samuel J. Budlong, Paris G. Clark. Pomeroy P. Dickinson, Edward B. Fiske, Lorin H. Gillette. Richard H. Lansing, Ed- win A. MeMath. Thomas P. O'Kelley, William W. Webb. Richard E. White. Solomon Wile, Isnac A
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Wile, Byron C. Williams, Charles M. Williams.
1876 .- George Armstrong, William HI. Barker, William R. Carpenter, John A. Colwell, Henry R. Curtis, Frederick A. Hitchcock, Angus McDonald, W. Howard Olmsted, William H. St. John, John C. Simons, Henry J. Sullivan, Josiah Sullivan, Stephen Wheeler, George F. Yeoman,
1877 .- J. Aaron Adams, Joseph A. Adlington, John N. Beckley, Walter Buell, Darius I .. Covill, Edward O. Dowd, John H. Hopkins, Walter S. Hubbell, Thomas A. Hungerford, W. Martin Jones, J. Horace McGuire, Heman W. Morris, Michael F. O'Dea, Horace G. Pierce, William G. Raines, Thomas F. Stark, Samuel H. Torrey, Geo. E. Warner, Thomas D. Wilkin, William H. Whit- ing.
1878,-Louis A. Amaden, Franx M. Bottom, William M. Brock, George F. Bausum, Frederick 1 .. Churchill, J. Ewing Durand, Frank W. Elwood, Frederick Hebard, Marcus Hirshfield, Robert Jar- rard, D. Edgar Parsons, Arthur C. Smith, Jolu T. Pingree, Ivan Powers, Henry J. Sampson. George B. Selden, William H. Shuart, Herbert L. Ward, Charles E. Yale.
1879 .- William Butler Crittenden, A. Norton Fitch, George W. Lamb, Edwin A. Medcalf, James H. Montgomery, William F. Rampe, Edward M. Redmond, Joseph Welling, William E. Werner.
1880 .- James Briggs, John A. Burgess, Isaac W. Butts, Philetus Chamberlain, jr., Fred H. Church, Walter S. Coffin, Adelbert Cronise, Henry G. Danforth, John Desmond, Frank W. Dickinson. George D. Forsyth, Frank M. Goff, George W. Hall, Henry J. Hetzel, Joseph S. Hunn, William W. Jacobs, Bartholomew Keeler, Constantine D Kiehel, Henry M. McDonald, Samuel P. Moore, James B. Nellis, Fred P. Nutting, Wilber F. Os- born, Thomas G. Outerbridge, Thomas Raines. Charles B. Rebasz, Samuel L. Selden. Allen R. Sheffer, John G. Snell, George C. Wolcott.
1881 .- Adoniram J. Abbott. Jolin B. Abbott John II. Bishop, George M. Cone, William D Ellwanger, Charles C. Herrick, John H. Keefe, Edmund Lyon, Spencer S. Markham, Frank W Miller, William S. Servis, John M. Steele, Holmes B. Stevens, Edward F. Turk, Edward F. Welling- ton.
1882 .- Frederick H. Baker. Angus Cameron. Edward S. Clarke, William N. Cogswell. Henry W. Conklin, William H. Davis. Edward W. Hall, Wil-
liam A. Hawthorn, David Hays, David Herron, Henry M. Hill, Frank J. Hione, James L. Hotch- kiss, John D. Lynn, Edward W. Maurer, William A. Sternberg, Horace J. Tuttle, Roy C. Webster, Charles S. Wilbur, Casterline Williams, John W Wilson.
1883 .- D. Clinton Barnum, John A. Bernhard, Myron T. Bly, Frank HI. Bowlby, Selden S. Brown. Clarence J. Browning, Ralph Butler, Peter A. Costich, Raleigh Farrar, Seward French, William Johnson, Charles H. Kingsbury, William B. Lee, George R. Losey, Lemuel B. Marcy, Howard L. Osgood, Earl B. Putnam, Arthur J. Shaw, G. Fort Slocum, George J. Trenaman, Robert B. Wiekes, Charles H. Wiltsie.
1884 .- Milton A. Brown, Cassius C. Davy, Frank I. Gummer, Edward S. Martin, Edwin Mc- Knight, Anson S. McNab, Valentine J. Ruppert, Nelson C. Watson.
1885 .- William F. Chandler, James M. E. O'Grady, William H. Sullivan, Aldice G. Warren.
1886 .- George M. W. Bills, Charles J. Bissell, George A. Carnahan, Albert R. Gulbert, Frederick B. Hall, James S. Havens, Herve Isbell, James M. Kerr, Frederick W. Sandborn, John B. M. Stephens, Seth S. Terry.
1887 .- Albert A. Davis, George A. Gillette, James H. Kelso, J. Frank Morse, Frederick W. Smith, Arthur E. Sutherland, Stephen C. Trues- dale, Eugene Van Voorhis.
1889,-Joseph M. Allen, (Brockport) ), Abra- ham Benedict, Martin Davis, (Honeoye Falls), Norris Bull, Charles P. Lee, Ednor A. Marsh, Erwin E. Shutt, George F. Zimmer.
1890 .- William DeGraff, Fred C. Hanford, Her- bert J. Menzie, George E. Milliman, John F. Mit- chell, Herbert J. Stull, Richard Van Voorhis, El- mer E. Wyckoff.
1891 .- H. Perry Blodgett, William E. Carno- chan, Joseph H. Hill, Willis K. Gillette, William L. Kiefer, Andrew Ludolph, Darius A. Marsh, Ed- win A. Woodward.
1892 .- Isaac Adler. Simon L. Adler, Kendall B. Castle, Benjamin B. Chase. William E. Davis, Franklin S. Hutchinson, Edward A. Keenan, Not man A. McPherson, Edwin C. Smith, Jr., (Brigh- ton), Otto J. Stull, Stephen J. Warren (W. Hen- rietta), George M. Williams, Charles F. A. Young. 1893 .- Henry Bartholomay, jr., Charles A. Ed- gerton. Lovelle M. Grube, Everett O. Gibbs, F.
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Irving Gordon, Willis A. Matson (Brockport), Charles M. Gambel, George R. Graves, Frederick William T. Plumb, Henry V. Woodward, Henry A. Walker ( Fairport).
1894 .- John H. Daily, James R. Davy, George B. Draper, William H. Driscoll, Edward R. Fore- man, William J. Hawkins, Leslie E. Hulburt. John Keenan, Charles R. Kreidler, Clyde W. Knapp, John B. O'Connor, Ira L. Ward ( Pitts- ford), Fred M. Whitney, Herbert S. Wilbur.
1895 .- James Fahy Galligan, David L. Hill. Chester F. Kiehel, William F. Lynn, Nelson E. Spencer, Arthur M. Wisner.
1896 .- Raymond H. Arnott, Henry Selden Ba- con, Frederick L. Dutcher, Homer C. Holines, (Brockport), Delbert C. Hebbard, Wilber Kinz:e. George L. Meade, Clarence W. Mckay, Ernest B. Millard, Charles E. Murphy, Barney S. O'Neill, Harry Pease, Harry Otis Poole (Gates), Michael E. Ryan, Albert L. Shepard, Morris L. Stern, H. C. Spurr, William H. Tompkins, Irwin Taylor, Edgerton R. Williams, jr., Charles E. Woodward.
1897 .- William J. Baker, Joseph H. Bush, Nel- son H. Barnes, Charles W. Butler (Fairport), Patrick Cauley, Kate K. Crennell, Patrick J. Dob- son (Greece), Fred G. Dutton, Edward C. Edel- man, Henry W. Hall, Joseph L. Humphrey, Fre-1 P. Kimball, Louis E. Lazarus, Herbert Leary, Horace A. McGuire, John P. Morse, Alexander Otis, Horatio Straus, Eugene M. Strouss, Richard L. Saunders, Henry D. Shedd, Joseph R. Web- ster, John E. Wellington, Marvin W. Wynne.
1898 .- William Allen, Frank Clark Brown, Al- phonzo S. Bissell, Rolison S. Bostwick, Curtis Fitz Simons, Milton E, Gibbs, Joseph B. Hone, Henry A. Mock, Timothy J. Nigham, Mary R. Orwen, Erwin S. Plumb, Bayard J. Stedman, M. D. Welles.
1899,-John F. Allen, Leonard B. Bacon, Geo. F. Bodine, Henry D. Buell, Roy Neil Burgess, Arthur L. Cerdus, Arnold L. Empey, Walter M Glass, Philip I .. Koscialowski, Edward Lynn, Henry W. Martens, Lawrence M. Morley, Louis J. Neun, Fred W. Oliver, Raymond G .Phillips, G. Willard Rich, H. Harmon Scofield, Albert H. Stearns, George R. Van Alstyne, George W. Van Ingen, Ernest C. Whitbeck, James L. Whitley, Freeman F. Zimmerman.
1900 .-- Arthur W. Bingham. William O. Box well, William H. Burr. James L. Brewer, Isaac M. Brickner, Merwin T. Daly. Joseph M. Feely.
C. Goodwin, Edward Harris, jr., Fred A. MeGill, George P.| Mckenzie, Emory G. Moore, Harry C. Nobles, Hugh J. O'Brien, Percival DeW. Oviatt, Frank P. Reilly, Chandler Wolcott.
1901 .- Arthur R. Anderson, George F. Baker (Union Hill), William J. Carey, H. Bradley Car- roll, James W. Dean, John H. Eegan, Elon G. Galusha, Howard K. German, Henry R. Glyna, Roy M. Hart (North Rush), W. Martin Jones, Junius R. Judson, James F. Keeler, Robert P. Levis, James Mann (Brockport), George S. Me- Millan, Howard T. Mosher, August V. Pappert, jr., Frederick S. Rauber, Charles S. Roberts (North Chili), Joseph A. White.
1902 .- Charles B. Bechtold, Charles Callahan, Joseph A. Donovan, G. Townley Fries, Dennis Kavanagh, Hugh J. Maguire, Myrtle M. Mann, Henry S. McGonegal, George S. MeGregor, Fred- erick W. Parkhurst, Frederick S. Remington, Nor- man Rosenberg, Nelson B. Sanford, Frank S. Thomas, Alexander E. Wall, James M. Wallace, Raymond E. Westbury, Charles S. Williams, Ralph A. Woods.
1903,-J. S. Albright, Norman N. Britton, Charles A. Greene (Fairport), William H. Harri son, George M. Hegan, John J. McInerney, Wil- liam J. Maloney, Charles Lee Pierce, Jacob J. Rosenberg, Edwin C. Redfern, Howard M. Stone.
1904 .- Frederick W. Coit, Percy D. Dean (Web- ster), James P. B. Duffy, James A. Gosnell, Sid- ney S. Lowenthal, William MacFarlane, Smith O'Brien, Cyrus W. Phillips, Peter G. Smith (Web- ster), Salvatore Vella. George Y. Webster. Ger- shom V. Wiborn, Benjamin C. Wood.
1905 .- Cogswell Bentley, Margaret E. Booth, James D. Harris (Fairport), Burlew Hill, Frank Keifer, William F. Love, George A. McGonegal, James J. McNeil, John Mead, Eugene Raines, Albertus D. Richards, William J. Richter, J. Don- ald Shoecraft (Webster), Marsh N. Taylor, Hu- bert B. Thomas, William B. Zimmer.
1906 .- George H. Bemish, Orrin Barker, Homer E. A. Dick, Arthur G. Dutcher, James K. Feeley. Herbert D. Harmon (Brockport). James M. Heath (Rush). Joseph P. Hogan, Rochester H. Rogers, Hiram M. Rogers ( Pittsford). George (' Steele ( Pittsford), Frederick Wiedman, George P. Wolcott.
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The following is a full list of the members, at the present time, of the Monroe county bar:
City .- John B. Abbott, Elbridge Adams, Isaac Adler, John H. Agate, J. S. Albright, Charles M. Allen, Arthur R. Anderson, J. S. Andrews, James M. Angle, William W. Armstrong, Raymond IT. Arnot, Robert Averill, Henry Selden Bacon; Leonard Beaumont Bacon, Chas. H. Bailey, Fred H. Baker, Win. J. Baker, John A. Bar- hite, H. L., Barker, Orrin Barker, John W. Barrett, W. M. Bates, Geo. HI. Bemish, Daniel M. Beach, W. H. Beach, Chas. B. Bechtold, John N. Beckley, H. L. Bennett, Coge- well Bentley, Herbert L. Bentley, S. D. Bentley, John A. Bernhard, George M. W. Bills, Charles J. Bissell, Alvin Block, If. Perry Blodgett, Myron T. Bly, Margaret E. Booth, C. E. Bostwick, Rolison S. Bostwick, William O. Boswell, John P. Bow- man, W. H. Bowman, Isaac M. Brickner, Norman N. Britton, John S. Bronk, F. Clark Brown, C. J. Browning, John A. Burgess, William H. Burr, Charles E. Callahan, George A. Carnahan, William J. Carey, H. Bradley Carroll, K. B. Castle, J. War- rant Castleman, Patrick Cauley, John H. Chadsey, P. Chamberlain, William F. Chandler, Benjamin B. Chase, Frederick F. Church, Frederick L. Churchill, Frederick D. H. Cobb, William N. Cog3- well, Frederick W. Coit, Henry W. Conklin, W. H Coon, P. A. Costich, K. K. Crennell, W. Butler Crittenden, Adelbert Cronise, B. B. Cunningham, A. W. Curtis, Robt. N. Curtis. John H. Daily, Merwin Daily, H. G. Danforth, C. Schuyler Davis, Martin Davis, W. H. Davis, C. C. Davison, C. C. Davy, Janes R. Davy, John M. Davy, C. F. Dean George P. Decker, William DeGraff, Eugene C. Denton, John Desmond, Ilomer E. A. Dick, Pome- roy P. Dickinson, Theodore II. Dimon, George B. Draper, George P. Draper, James P. B. Duffy, J. E. Durand, Fred L. Dutcher, Arthur G. Dutcher, Eugene J. Dwyer, Edward C. Edelnan, F. M. EI- lery, William D. Ellwanger, E. U. Ely, Arnold 1 .. Empey, Charles B. Ernst, H. S. Falkner, J. R Fanning, Raleigh Farrar, James K. Feely, Joseph M. Feely, Curtis Fitz Simons, George V. Flecken- stein, Edward R. Foreman, Daniel W. Forsyth, George D. Forsyth, G. T. Fries. P. M. French. Louis E. Fuller, Clinton HI. Furbish. D. Curtis Gano, J. B. Gatenhee, Howard K. German, Everett 0. Gibbs, Milton E. Gibbs, Willis K. Gillette. Gov. A. Gillette, Walter M. Glass. Henry R. Glynn.
Frank M. Goff, Fred C. Goodwin, H. Irving Gor- don, Chas, A. Green, James G. Greene, Frank I .. Gummer, William B. Hale, F. B. Hall, Henry W. Hall, Edward Harris, Edward Harris, jr., George II. Harris, W. H. Harrison, James S. Havens, D. C. Hebbard, Burlew Hill, David L. Ilill, Henry M. Hill, W. H. Hill, M. Hirsch- field, Joseph P. Hogan, F. J. HIone, Joseph B. Hone, J. H. Hopkins, J. L. Hotchkiss, Henry R. Howard, Walter S. Hubbell, Robert I .. Humiston, Joseph L. Humphrey, Joseph S. Hunn, F. B. Ilutchinson, F. S. Hutchinson, N. E. Hutchens. Harry M. Ingram, Theodore H. Jameson, William Johnson, Harry O. Jones, W. Martin Jones, Jun- ins R. Judson, J. H. Keet, James Keeler, E. A. Keenan, John Keenan, Martin HI. Kennedy, C. D. Kichel, Chester F. Kiehel, John B. Kiley, Fred P. Kimball, John F. Kinney, H. S. Kline. William C. Kohlinetz, Charles R. Kreidler, R. H. Lansing, Louis E. Lazarus, Her- bert Leary, William B. Lee, Merton E. Lewis, Wm. F. Love, Emil Ludekins. Andrew Ludolph, Edward B. Lynn, John D. Lynn, William F Lynn, Edmund Lyon, Wm. MacFarlane, Franeis S. Macomber, Hugh J. Macguire, William J. Ma- loney, Frederick A. Mann, E. A. Marsh, Henry W. Martens, Willis A. Matson, T. P. McCarrick, C. I. McDowell, Geo. A. McGonegal, Henry S. MeGone- gal, Horace McGuire, Walter McGunn, John J. McInerney, Patrick McIntyre, C. W. Mckay, George P. Mckenzie. Joseph MeLean, Jr., M. H. MeMath, Geo. S. McMillan, W. J. McPherson, John Mead, G. I .. Mead, E. A. Medcalf, Herbert J. Menzie, Ernest B. Millard, Harry A. Mock, J. H. Montgomery, Samuel P. Moore, Lawrence M. Morley, H. W. Morris, J. Frank Morse, George I .. Morse, John P. Morse, Howard T. Mosher, John M. Murphy, William Neary, T. J. Nigham, Harry C. Nobles, Milton Noyes, Hugh J. O'Brien, J. C. O'Brien, Smith O'Brien. . I. P. O'Connor, James M. F. O'Grady. Frederick W. Oliver. Mary R. Orwen, Wilbur F. Osborn, H. L. Oa- good. Alexander Otis, Percival D. Oviatt, J. Stuart Page, August V. Pappert, D. E. Parsons, Fletcher C. Perk. H. Nelson Peck, J. B. Perkins, Cyrus W. Phillips, Charles Lee Pierce, H. G. Pierce, Erwin S. Plumb, William T. Plumn, C. F. Pond, Harry Otis Poole, Engene Raines, George Raines, Geo. R. Raines, Thomas Raincz, W. F. Rampe, Edwin C. Redfern, E. M. Redmond).
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George D. Reed, Frederic Remington, H. F. Rem- ington, G. Willard Rich, Wm. J. Richter, Harlan W. Rippey, S. R. Robinson, A. J. Rodenbeck Hiram M. Rogers, Rochester H. Rogers, Chas. H. Rowe, Norman Rosenberg, Fred P. Salisbury. David N. Salisbury, David N. Salyerds, Nelson P. Sanford, Eugene Satterlee, Richard L. Saunders, Clarence E. Shuster, Walter I. Scott, W. H. Shaf- fer, Henry D. Shedd, Albert L. Shepard, J. Don- ald Shoecraft, Erwin E. Shutt, P. Cameron Shutt, G. F. Slocum, Arthur C. Smith, Edwin C. Smith, Fred W. Smith, Geo. H. Smith, Geo. L. Smith, Howard A. Smith, Frederick J. Smythe, Howard W. Sneck, Nelson E. Spencer, David Spraker, H. C. Spurr, Albert H. Stearns, John M. Stecle, Morris L. Stern, H. B. Stevens, O. H. Stevens, E. F. Stilwell, William H. St. John, Horatio Straus, E. M. Strouss, Herbert J. Stull, John M. Stull, Otho S. Stull, H. T. Sullivan, W. H. Sullivan, D. D. Sully, W. A. Sutherland, J. W. Taylor, Marsh N. Taylor, Z. P. Taylor, Her- bert B. Thomas G. W. Thomas, Wm. H. Tom- king, Carroll A. Thompson, Albert E. Truesdale, Geo. Truesdale, Stephen Truesdale, A. E. Tuck, H. J. Tuttle, Geo. Van Alstyne, Willis R. Van DeMark, G. W. Van Ingen, Charles Van Voorhis, Eugene Van Voorhis, Quincy Van Voorhis, Salva- tore Vella, Alexander G. Wall, James M. H. Wai- lace, H. L. Ward, George E. Warner, Arthur War- ren, Stephen J. Warren, W. W. Webb, Geo. Y. Webster, Joseph R. Webster, Roy C. Webster, Fred-
erick Weidman, John E. Wellington, Christopher C. Werner, Raymond E. Westbury, Asher P. Whip- ple, Ernest C. Whitbeck, R. E. White, Thomas E. White, W. H. Whiting, James L. Whitley, Fred M. Whitney, Gershom V. Wiborn, R. B. Wiekes. Howard HI. Widener, Herbert S. Wilbur, I. A. Wile, Solomon Wile, Chas. M. Williams, Charles S. Williams, Edgerton R. Williams, jr., G. D. Williams, Chas. H. Wiltsie, Edwin H. Winans, Chandler Wolcott, George C. Wolcott, Hiram R. Wood, Ralph A. Woods, Charles E. Woodward, Edwin A. Woodward, H. H. Woodward, Henry V. Woodward, Leo. D. Woodworth, J. A. C. Wright. Elmer E. Wyckoff, Chas. F. A. Young, Wm. B Zimmer, F. F. Zimmerman.
County .- D. A. Adams, Brockport; Arthur R. Anderson, Hilton; John W. Barrett, Webster ; Homer B. Benedict, Brockport; Burton W. Brown, Spencerport; John Burns, Brockport; C W. Butler, Fairport; T. S. Dean, Brockport; W. H. Dusenbury, Honeoye Falls; E. J. Fisk, Fair- port; F. M. Goff, Spencerport ; James D. Harris, Fairport ; James M. Heath, - F. C. Hovey, Brockport; H. C. Holmes, Brockport; Daniel Holmes, Brockport; T. L. Hulburt, Fairport ; James Mann, - W. A. Matson, Brockport ; Henry E. McArthur, Brockport; Chas. S. Roberts, North Chili; John E. Robson, Honeoye Falls; Louis B. Shay, Brockport; C. A. Shuart, Honeoye Falls; Jay K. Smith, Honeoye Falls: Peter G. Smith, Webster; Henry A. Walker. Fairport ; Charles E. Yale, Fairport.
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CHAPTER XXI
THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.
BY EDWARD B. ANGELL, M. D.
Early Physicians of Rochester-Dr. Moore's Arti- cle-The Monroe County Medical Society-The Rochester Pathological Society-The Medical Library-The Academy of Medicine-The Hos- pital Medical Society-The Provident Dispen- sary-The Women's Medical Society-Brief Biographies of Physicians-the Health Bureau -Smallpor-the Milk Problem-Care of Chil- dren-Homeopathy-Hahnemannian School- Hospitals of Those Two- Dentistry in Ro- chester.
In preparing the chapter on the medical profes- sion of Rochester it seems to me that no better be- ginning can be made than by quoting at sonie length from a comprehensive article on the same subject, by the late Dr. Edward M. Moore, which appeared in the history of Rochester that was pub- lished in 1884:
"The planting of a village on the site of the city of Rochester was later than that of most villages in the county of Monroe. Where the pioneers pushed forward into the dense forest that clothed the soil of Western New York they very naturally chose the higher lands as more easy of reduction to the conditions necessary to the production of food. The village became the outgrowth of the neighboring settlement of the farmers. But Ro- chester was the result of a conviction that a larger town would be developed by the presence of the fine water-power of the Genesee. When the village
was laid out, high hopes were entertained of its future, a belief that it was not merely the inci- dent of a near farming community but that of the necessities of a wide area. Such views nat- urally attracted members of the profession of medi- cine. The first house was erected in 1812, and in "the succeeding year we find the name of Dr. Jonah Brown as the first practitioner in the vil- lage. Dr. Brown died soon after his removal to his new home. Others soon followed him to this place, and we find them numerous enough to undertake the formation of a county medical society in 1821. At this period the laws of the state gave special privileges to members of the county societies, per- mitting them to collect their fees, a right which no one else possessed who practised medicine. Hence the construction of these societies was regu- lated by law, and it may be observed, in passing, that the law still regulates the construction and action of the medical societies but has withdrawn from them all privileges. At the time when the first society was formed in Monroe county medi- cal colleges were remote, and the labor and time occupied in traveling rendered the city of New York as difficult to reach as the schools of London and Paris are by the student of to-day. It was then the law and custom for the aspirant to medics! practice to derive all his information from the teaching of his preceptor. Men were admitted to practice after passing the ordeal of examination by censors appointed by the county medical en- cieties. In this they realized, in a rude manner, the strong desire of the profession at the present day for an independent board of examiners. That the teaching was often crude and specially im-
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perfect in the foundation of all medical learning -- namely, anatomy-must be confessed. But at var- ious places men of strong intellectual character- istics gathered around them numerous students and became to them teachers who impressed their personality with great power upon the student of medicine, oftentimes with greater distinctiveness than that which is brought to bear on a large class by a more finished teacher at the present time. Of such character were Dr. Joseph White of Cher- ry Valley and Dr. McIntyre of Palmyra. It will be readily seen that the early establishment of a county society would become a necessity to the medical profession, independent of the natural desire for association for social and professional purposes. Accordingly we find that a meeting of the physicians and surgeons of the county of Mon- roe was held pursuant to notice on the 9th of May, 1821, at the house of John G. Christopher, in Rochester. Alexander Kelsey was chosen chair- man and John B. Elwood secretary. The physi- cians whose credentials were approved by the chair- man were Joseph Loomas, Nathaniel Rowell, James Scott, Allen Almy, Daniel Durfee, Daniel Weston, Isaac Chichester, Alexander Kelsey, John Cobb, jr., John G. Vought, Chauncey Beadle, Theophilus Randall, Frederick F. Backus, M. D., Ebenezer Burnham, jr., Samuel B. Bradley, Ezek- iel Harmon. These immediately elected officers, as follows: Alexander Kelsey, president; Nathaniel Rowell, vice-president ; Anson Coleman, treasurer ; Freeman Edson, J. B. Elwood, F. F. Backus, Ezc- kiel Harmon and Derick Knickerbocker, censors. That meeting was hardly more than preliminary and at a more formal one, held May 9th, 1822, the committee on constitution and by-laws made an elaborate report containing thirty-six distinct ar- ticles, defining the offices and the duties of their incumbents; also the duties of members, with the mode of their admittance. At that meeting the following named presented their credentials and were admitted to membership: Anson Coleman, Ezra Strong. David Gregory, William H. Mor- gan, M. D., Linus Stevens, O. E. Gibbs, James Holton, William Gildersleeve, J. B. Elwood. Berkeley Gillette, George Marion, M. D., Barzillai Bush, M. D. The small number of men who wrote their names with titles gives at a glance the relation between those who had received their instruction in medical colleges and been graduated
by them and those who were licensed by the cen- sors of the county societies."
Taking up the narrative at this point, it may be remarked that the activity of the County Medi- cal society, however, very largely centered in its annual or special meetings for the purpose of the discussion of the various important medical ques. tions of the day. Its annual meeting has taken place for many years on the last Wednesday in May but recently has been changed to the third Tuesday in December.
In 1882 the Medical society of the state of New York split into factions on the subject of the "code of ethics," an instrument of some anti- quity and accepted authority, which prevented con- sultation with physicians belonging to other thau the regular school. Upon this question the state society resolved to do away with the "code of ethics" altogether. The Monroe County Medical society agreed with the action of the state society. although a few of the prominent practitioners of the city disagreed and withdrew, both from the state and from county organizations, forming # new organization-the Association. This recogni- tion, however, of the homeopathic and eclectic medical men made possible the establishment, a few years later, of a state board of medical ex- aminers, and raised the standard of the medical education required very materially. At the begin- ning of this period, only two years of study at a recognized medical school, and registration of its diploma in the county clerk's office, was required to admit any one to practise medicine. To-day, a four years' course, of nine months each, is de- manded. preliminary to admission to the state examinations, which must be satisfactorily passed before a candidate may become a practitioner of medicine. During all these years, the regular pro- fession of the state has been divided into two organic bodies. But with the passing of time antag- onism softened, and, after three years' effort, the regular profession of medicine again became united. It is a matter of interest that the judicial decree consummating this union was issued by Justice John M. Davy, in Rochester, in December, 1905. During the year 1906 the Medical Associa- tion of Monroe county, which had never been very active, became merged into the Monroe County Medical society. This organization is now a com- ponent part of the Medical society of the state of
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