History of Steuben county, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 103

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lewis, Peck & co.
Number of Pages: 826

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Paul, Iliram, private, 107th Inf., Co. C; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years.

Beman, Warren, sergt., 86th Inf., Co. F; enl. Dec. 31, 1863, three years; re-enl. vet .; disch. July 4, 1865.

Marsh, Edwin, drummer, 86th Inf., Co. F; cnl. Sept. 14, 1861, three years; re- eu !. Dec. 31, 1863, three years; disch. June 27, 1865.

Warren, Lewis E., private, 8Gth Inf., Co. F ; enl. Dec. 31, 1863, three years. Brown, Lyman, SGth Inf., Co. F; eul. Dec. 20, 1863, three years.

Beman, Charles, 86th Inf., Co. F; enl. Dec. 20, 1863, three years; re-enl. vet .; disch. July 4, 1565.

Tremain, Seth, lient., 86th Inf., Co. F; enl. Sept. 14, 1861, three years; re-enl. Dec. 20, 1863; pro. to 2d lient., 1865; disch. with regiment, July 4, 1865. Scofield, Edward HI., private, 86th Inf., Co. F; enl. Sept. 14, 1861, three years ; re-eul. Dec. 20, 1863; wounded at Petersburg, June 18, 1864; trans, to Vet. Res. Corps, Jan. 1865; disch. Ang. 3, 1865.

Wall, Charles B., 2d corp., 80th Int., Co. F ; enl. Sept. 14, 1861, three years; died at Camp Goodhope, Md., of typhoid fever ; buried at Lindley, N. Y.

Rifle, Hiram, private, 86th Iof., Co. F; enl. Sept. 14, 1861, three years ; wounded at Gettysburg; disch, at Elmira, June 8, 1864.

Colder, Iliram, private, 86th Inf., Co. 1; enl. Feb. 15, 1864, three years; wounded at the battle of Spottsylvania Court-House, May 10, 1864; disch. Nov. 4, 1864.

Gaze, Franklin, private, 4th II. Art., Co. I ; enl. June 26, 1862, three years; diedl at Fort Schuyler, or Schuyler's Island, Nov. 26, 1864.

Follonsbee, Isaac, 16Ist Inf.

Pritchard, Morr.s, private, 141st Inf., Co. D; enl. Sept. 3, 1862, three years ; trans, to Co. E, 17th Regt., Vet. Res. Corps, Jan. 11, 1865 ; disch. June 30, 1805. Amiden, Solomon B., private, 86th Inf., Co. F; enl. Aug. 29, 1864, three years; re-enl. vet .; disch. with regiment, July 4, 1865.

Barret, Amos C., 86th Inf., Co. I; enl. Aug. 29, 1864, three years; re-enl. vet. ; disch with regiment, July 4, 1865.

Iludson, William II., private, 86th Inf., Co. G; en1. Aug. 29, 1864, three years ; re-enl. vet .; disch, with regiment, July 4, 1865.

Moran, Thomas, 86th Inf., Co. G; enl. Aug. 29, 1864, three years; re-enl. vet. ; disch. with regiment, July 4, 1805.

Wigant, Harvey M., 86th Inf., Co. G ; enl. Aug. 29, 1864, three years; re-enl. vet .; disch. with regiment, July 4, 1865.

Brown, C. Il., sergt., 86th Inf .; enl. Sept. 14, 1861, three years; disch. Sept. 20, 18G5.

llarrower, John G., Ist lieut., 161st Inf .; en]. July 14, 1863, three years; disch. Sept. 20, 1865.

Burr, Phineas, private, 50th Eng., Co. Il ; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years ; disch. June, 1865.

Hanley, John, private, 86th Inf., Co. F ; enl. Sept. 14, 1861, three years ; wounded at Beverly Ford, June 9, 1863; trane. to Inv. Corpe; disch. Sept. 1864.

Keville, Wm., corp., 8Gth Inf., Co. F ; enl. Sept. 14, 1861, three years ; disch. Sept. 30, 1864.

Dongherty, John, private, 86th Inf., Co. F; en1. Sept. 21, 1861, three years; trane. to Vet. Res. Corps, Ang. 28, 1863 ; re-enl. April 21, 1864 ; disch. Nov. 18, 1865.

Vastbinder, George, private, 86th Inf., Co. C; enl. Sept. 1861.

Marsh, Henry, private, 86th Inf., Co. F; en]. Oct 13, 1861, three years; wounded at second Bull Run battle, Aug. 26, 1862; disch. in consequence of wound, Nov. 27, 1862.

Kinney, Henry L., private, 86th Inf., Co. F; enl. Oct. 18, 1861, three years ; sick, sent to hospital at Washington, Feb. 1862, from there to Philadelphia; disch, at the latter place, June 6, 1862.

Westcott, Delos II., corp., 8Gth Inf., Co. C; enl. Oct. 11, 1861, three years; died in Stanton Ilospital, Washington, Sept. 17, 1863.

Thurber, Henry C., Ist lieut. and adjt., 86th Inf., Co. F; enl. Sept. 18, 1861, three years; pro. to sergt., Oct. 1, 1861 ; to 2dl lient., July, 1863; to Ist lieut. und adjt., Feb. 1864 ; disch. Oct. 10, 1864.

Spelye, Myron M., private, 86th Inf., Co. F; enl. Sept. 27, ISCI, three years. Matson, William, private, 64th Inf., Co. K; enl. July 16, 1863, three years; wounded in shoulder at Weldon Railroad, Aug. 14, 1864; died at Lindley, Oct. 14, 1864.

Huggins, John, private, 68th Inf, Co. Il; drafted July 17, 1863, three years; disch. Dec. 1865.

Cook, Silas, sergt., 86th Inf., Co. F; enl. Sept. 14, 18G1, three years.

Williams, Samuel, private, 31st Inf. (col.), Co. F ; en1. July 17, 1863, three years; lisch, at Brownsville, Tex., Nov. 7, 1865.

Cowles, Demetrins, corp., 86th Inf, Co. F; enl. Oct. 12, 1861, three years ; disch. for disability.

Clark, Samuel, private, Ist Inf., Co. G; enl. July 13, 1862, three years ; died at David's Island, Oct. 7. 1862.

Cowles, Ilenry, Ist Pa, Rifles, Co. A, three years; re-enl. in 50th Eng.

Marsh, Robert, musician, 8Gth Inf., Co. F; enl. Sept. 14, 1861, three years; died and buried at Fredericksburg, Jan. 22, 1863.

Gordon, Amasa L., private, 86th Inf., Co. F ; enl. Oct. 25, 1861, three years. Miller, Thomas F., private, S6th Inf., Co. F; enl. Oct. 26, 1861, three years. McMahon, Michael, private, 86th Inf., Co. F; enl. Nov. 12, 1861, three years. Stewart, Levi, private, 8Gth Inf., Co. F ; enl. Oct. 6, 1861, three years ; disch. June 7, 1862.

Thomas, John, private, 86th Inf., Co. F; enl. Sept. 14, 1861, three years.

Harrower, John G., Ist lieut., Ist Rifles, Pa. Vet. Res. Corps, Co. A ; enl. April 21, 1861 ; pro, to capt. March 1, 1863; res. June 23, 1863, to accept com- mission of Ist lieut. and adjt. in IGIst N. Y. Inf .; disch. Oct. 15, 1865.

Allington, Edgar, private, 8Gth Inf., Co. F; en1. Feb.3, 1864, three years ; killed nt battle of Petersburg, June 18, 1864.

Campbell, William A., private, 86th Inf., Co. F; enl. Dec. 31, 1863, three years ; re-enl. vet. ; disch. with regiment, July 4, 1865.

Mathews, Isaac, private, 50th Eng. ; enl. Aug. 30, 1864, one year ; diech. June 13, 1865.

Randall, Lyman, private; drafted July 17, 1863, three years.

Benton, Jared, private ; drafted July 17, 1863, three years.

Brockway, William, private; drafted July 17, 1863, three years.

Mulford, Charles C., private ; enl. Feb. 1864, three years.

Miller, Jacob, private, 89th Iof. ; enl. Jan. 10, 1864, three years ; died in hospital at Folly Island, S. C., April 29, 1864.

Schuyler, Henry S., private, 86th Inf., Co. I ; enl. Feb. 1864, three years ; missing at battle of Spottsylvania Court-House, May 10, 1864; never heard from. Rumsay, Isaac, private, 86th Inf .; enl. Feb. 1864, three years.

Wheeler, Richard, private, 86th Inf .; enl. Feb. 1864, three years.

Fairbanks, Gardner, private, 50th Eng., Co. M; enl. Jan. 1864, three years; disch. Jnno 26, 1865.

Ilawkins, Charles, private.

Rupell, Orrin, Jr., private, 72dl Ohio Inf., Co. F; enl. Jan. 1, 1862, three years ; re-enl. Jan. 1, 1864, three years; disch. June 9, 1865.

Mulford, Lee, sergt., 107th Inf., Co. F; enl. June 5, 1862; pro. to corp. in 1862; to sergt., 1863; disch, at end of war.

Riffe, Andrew Jackson, private, 2d Harris L. Cav., Co. K ; enI. Sept. 7, 1864, one year ; disch. June 5, 1865.

Walker, Robert, 89th Inf., three years ; re-enl.

Walker, James, private, Ist Pa. Rifles, Co. A ; enl. June II, 1861, three years ; wounded through the neck at South Mountain, Va., Sept. 14, 1862; disch. March 4, 1863; re-enl. 2d Vet. Cav., Co. G, Sept. 20, 1863, three years ; taken pris. Oct. 4, 1864; confined at Meridiao, Ala., until April 26, 1865, when he was paroled; disch. April 17, 1865.

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Robinson, James (sub.), private, 50th Pa. Inf., Co. K ; en !. March 7, 1865, one year; disch. July 30, 1865.

Robinson, Wm. (sub.), private, 50th Pa. Inf., Co. K ; enl. March 7, 1865, one year ; disch. July 30, 1865.

Cook, Arthur, Jr., private, 13th II. Art., Bat. C; disch. June 21, 1565. Demenstoy, Walton, private, 50th Eng.

Carey, Thomas, private, 2d Harris L. Cav., Co. K ; enl. Sept. 7, 1864, one year ; disch. Juno 5, 1865.

Lindsley, Henry, private, 179th Inf., Co. B; enl. March 25, 1864, three years; disch. June 8, 1865.

Lindsley, Joseph, private, 3d L. Art., Bat. K ; enl. Sept. 5, 1864, three years ; disch. July 15, 1865.

Reed, Myron II., enl. 1861, three months ; re-enl. io 14th Inf., Jan. 1862, three years : served full term and disch. with regiment.

Cowles, A. Demetrius, private, 50th Eog. ; enl. three years.

Cowles, Henry, 50th Eng .; enl. three years.

Cowles, James, private, 50th Eng. : enl. three years.

Cook, A. Justice, private, 107th Inf .; enl. Feb. 28, 1861, three years; disch. Ang. 1865.

Sawyer, Addison, private, 86th Inf., Co. F ; enl. Sept. 21, 1861, three years.

PRATTSBURGH.

GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION.

THE town of Prattsburgh is centrally situated upon the northern border of the county. It is bounded north by Italy and Naples, in Ontario County, east by Pulteney, south by Wheeler and Urbana, and west by Cohocton.

PHYSICAL FEATURES.

The eastern part of the town forms the highlands be- tween Keuka Lake and Five-Mile Creek ; the central, the elevation between Five- and Ten-Mile Creeks; and the extreme western border is Lent Hill, west of Twelve-Mile Creek. The hills and valleys range generally from north- east to southwest. The hills rise from 300 to 400 feet above the valleys. The valley of Five-Mile Creek is 1400 feet above tide-water. From the hills, which gradually rise from this and other valleys of the town, the prospect is that of a beautifully-undulating table-land extending in all directions, covered originally with hard timber-hem- lock and white pine-but at present presenting a fine rural landscape of wooded slopes and cultivated farms. The farm-buildings indicate the thrift and prosperity of the enterprising agriculturists of this section. The soil is of gravelly and clay loam, adapted to pasturage and to the growth of cereals, fruit, and vegetables. The town con- tains 35,638 acres, of which 27,410 are improved lands, and 7578 acres are timbered lands. The value of farm- buildings ranks next to that of Bath, being $209,610, exclusive of dwellings, to the latter $338,775. (See gen- eral tables of statistics. )

EARLY SETTLEMENT.

[Mrs. Anna Pratt Rice, the only daughter of Capt. Joel Pratt, and who was at the time of her death, in 1876, the oldest persen and resi- dent in Prattsburgh, communicated, a short time before her decease, to William B. Pratt, Esq., the following facts concerning the early settlement of the town.]

" Ifer father, Capt. Joel Pratt, was from Colchester, and her mother, Mary Beach Fowler, from Hebron, Conn. The children, in the order of age, were Joel, Ira, Harvey, Anna, Dan, and Elisha. Capt. Pratt and his son Harvey, with four ox-teams, six men, and one hired girl, and needful tools and provisions, came to this region in the year 1800, in the

month of February, and settled on Hemlock Hill, four miles west of Pleasant Valley, and cleared 110 acres of heavy forest, and sowed the same with wheat in the fall. They got there in the night and found the sleepers of a rude cabin torn up by the Indians, and were obliged to cut hemlock boughs and place them for a temporary floor. The buikl - ing of the cabin had been provided for the year before by Capt. Pratt when he visited the country on horseback. After the wheat was sown, Capt. Pratt and son returned to Columbia County, and the men of the company scattered in different directions. In February, 1801, Capt. Pratt and Harvey returned, and Joel also came on in time for the harvest, which was a prolific one. At this time there had not been a single tree felled in what is now the town of Prattsburgh. The grain was cut with sickles by men ob- tained from Bath and Pleasant Valley, then the only near settlements, and stored in a barn built the same season, with lumber hauled up the long hard hill from Pleasant Valley. It was thrashed the succeeding winter with flails, hauled to Bath with ox-teams, a part of it floured, and all of it stored, and the whole product floated to Baltimore in the spring of 1802, on arks, and sold for twenty shillings and fourpence a bushel .*

" In the year 1800, Uriel Chapin came also from Spencer- town with his family, settling on lands now occupied by Julius Stickney, in Wheeler. Mr. Jared Pratt also came the same year with his family, and was the first actual white settler in Prattsburgh. Both Chapin and Pratt had been on the year before alone, the latter making the first clearing in the town. There were four acres of it lying a little south of Mud Lake, on what was long known as the Beach farm. In October, 1802, Capt. Joel Pratt removed his family, coming with both horse and ox-teams, and was eighteen days in making the trip .; There was then no open road on the route they came. After getting a few miles this side of Brown's, in what is now the town of Jerusalem, the con- pany followed blazed trees a number of miles on the last

# Capt. Pratt sold his wheat for something ever $2.50 a bushel, and came back from Baltimore on foot with nearly $8000 in his pocket.

+ From Spencertewn, Columbia Co., to his new house.

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of the journey, reaching finally, after many tribulations, the cabin on Hemlock Hill. When within two miles of the end of their journey, they were obliged to sojourn for two days at one Deacon Bennett's till a road could be ent through ; the only open road which they had formerly traveled being up the hill from Pleasant Valley on a differ- ent route. The family lived on the hill some three years, during which time there was friendly intercourse with the Chapin and Jared Pratt families, by a road opened through the dense forest. Mrs. Rice traveled the same, in one in- stanee, alone, though wild beasts were numerous. The family removed to this place in 1805, into a house built of hewed logs, on the knoll occupied now by William B. Pratt. The barn had also been built, the trees being cut away to make room for it, and some of the stumps remain there- under till this day.

" In the summer of 1804, Mrs. Rice kept house for her father for awhile, in a log cabin a few rods west from where L. O. Dunning resides, while he cleared sixty acres of forest, a part of the present premises of A. H. Van Houseu. It was heavy maple timber, and the labor was largely done by three men from Sherburne, they using long pikes, and throwing the trees into immense windrows. When the fo- liage was dry the surrounding forest was lighted with such a prodigious fire as is rarely seen, reducing not only leaves and limbs, but trunks also, to a large extent, to ashes. Where the village now stands was cleared subsequently by parties from Middletown, now Naples, under the superin- tendence of Uriel Chapin and William Root, of Albany, the latter being interested by purchase of lands. Seventy acres were cleared at one time, and sowed with wheat, mak- ing a luxuriant growth in the fall, which afforded fine grazing for deer, then so abundant that Joel Pratt was able, with his old flint-loek musket, to capture three in a single day.

" The road to Middletown was opened prior to 1802,-a two-rod road which extended to Bath by way of the Hemlock Hill, Uriel Chapin being the contractor. At the two ex- tremes-Naples and Bath- were the only grist-mills in all this region. At this time (1805), settlers were coming in considerable numbers, Minister Niles being the first after Jared Pratt, unless we except Daniel Buel, a bachelor and expert hunter, who located his eabin on grounds now owned by W. H. Babcock, and profitably followed his ehosen pur- suit. Buch subsequently wandered off to Northern Ohio, and met his death at the hands of some of the very abor- iginal race with whom he had so long fellowshiped. While making a fire in his cabin a treacherous savage stealthily entered his door, and fatally buried his tomahawk in his back. This was the last of Buel, who was well esteemed by the early settlers for his simple habits, unobtrusive in- dustry, and unflinching integrity. llis hold on his mother's affections was so strong as to bring her on one occasion all the way from Stockbridge, Mass., afoot, some three hundred miles to visit him.

" Mr. Niles vacated the post of principal of the academy at Clinton, Oneida Co., to preach the gospel to a few scattering settlers in this then howling wilderness. His first religious services, and the first public services in the town, were held in the house of Jared Pratt, a rude log

structure where Luther Wheeler's house now stands. The congregation consisted of eight persons-Mr. Niles, wife and son George, Jared Pratt and wife, Mrs. Rice and her brother Harvey, and Daniel Buel. It is to be regretted that the particular text used on the occasion is not remembered. Mrs. Rice and her mother came over from the Hill on horse- baek.

" The first death was that of a child of Wmn. P. Curtis, where his son, Wm. B., now lives. It was a little girl, and she was found with her face in a small and shallow stream of water-dead. A tin horn was blown by the family as a signal of distress, which was heard by Jared Pratt, more than two miles distant, who sped with all haste to the scene of affliction. He was the nearest neighbor excepting Pome- roy Ilull, who then lived where Benjamin Cook now does. The child was buried near the house. Subsequently, Mr. Tuttle, father of Joel Tuttle, died, and was buried in the present grounds of Elijah Allis. In July, 1806, occurred the death of Harvey Pratt, the third in town. What is now the old cemetery-ground had been burned off and planted with corn. A road was opened through it, and the first body lowered, the late Dan Edson assisting. After- wards one acre of ground was conveyed by Capt. Pratt to the religious society for a public burying-ground, and the bodies of the Curtis child and Mr. Tuttle were placed therein. Since then have been gathered there a great con- gregation."

We have quoted the above article in full on account of its interest, although not strictly in chronological order. From it we learn that Jared Pratt, the first settler of Prattsburgh, came on and made a small elearing in 1799, and moved his family to the town in the year 1800. He had then just set out in his career of life. He brought with him a wife to share the vicissitudes of pioncer life, and to soften and sweeten its adversitics. The farm he first selected and continued to occupy as long as he lived is that now owned by Mr. Luther Wheeler, and he then planted a row of Lombardy poplars, which at this day marks the place of the first shelter built for civilized man within this township.

" They constituted the only family in the township for about two years and a half; their hardships were many and their privations great. No neighbors within seven miles, no roads except a mere trail, and dense forests all around them. To obtain flour for their bread, Mr. Pratt would yoke his oxen, fill his bag with grain, lay it across the yoke of his oxen, and drive his team eleven miles to Naples, where was the nearest mill to his habitation, the road all the way lying in a dense forest without a habitation con- tiguous to it."*

Capt. Joel Pratt first visited the country on horseback in 1799, and selected Hemlock Hill, where he had a log cabin erected that year. In the year 1800 he came on and cleared 110 acres of land, sowing the same to wheat that fall. The following season the wheat was harvested, and in the spring of 1802 was conveyed by ark to Baltimore. Capt. Pratt returned from Baltimore, and before removing his family in October of that year, entered into contract for the

* Hetchkin's Hist. Western New York, p. 464.

J. IT, Stoddard 16. 4

PHILO K. STODDARD, M.D., was born in the town of Jerusalem, Yates Ce., Sept. 28, 1825. The ancestor of the Stoddard family was of English birth, and settled in Northampton, Mass. The great- grandfather Stoddard removed to Danbury, Conn., where he raised seven children, five of whom were sons, and fit for military duty at the time of the Revolutionary war, viz., Benjamin, Joel, Mosely, Cyrenus, and Darius.

The grandfather, Cyrenus, enlisted in the war for independence, suffered from seurvy, and was for three days and nights at one time on a pieket-heat en Lake Champlain without rations, or once relieved from duty. After the war he was pensioned. He married Candace Mix, lived in Greene Ce., N. Y., and afterwards moved to Cherry Valley. Their children are Sabra, Philo, Cyrus, Benjamin, Orra, Olive, and Esther.

Benjamin, father of Dr. Stoddard, was born in 1796, in Cherry Val- ley, Otsego Co., and was the first settler on lot 12 of the Green Tract, in Jerusalem township, Yates Co., and paid therefor six dollars per acre. lle was then twenty-one years of age, and had in property, all told, an axe, a gun, a watch, and six dollars in money.

Armed and endowed with youthful courage and a strong constitu- tion, he entered upon the work of subduing the wilderness, and earning on his land the wherewithal to pay for his title.

In 1818 he married IJannah Kelly, also a native of Otsego County, and few women have been a better support to a husband than she in the arduous labors of pioneer life and the care of a large family. Mr. Stoddard held a captain's commission in the 103d Regiment Infantry, granted by Gov. Enos T. Throop, in 1828, and a lieutenant's com- mission previously given by Gov. Yates. He also held several town offices. He died June 4, 1878. His wife still survives. Their children are Chester (deceased), Survina, Charles, Philo K., Susan Ann, Esther, and Thomas F.

Dr. Stoddard received his preliminary education at the common school and at Franklin Academy. At the age of sixteen he was a teacher, by which occupation and by farm labor he acquired sufficient means to enable him to prosecute his studies. He was a teacher for six terms in the common school and one term in the Franklin Academy.

At the age of twenty he began the study of medicine with Dr. Elisha Doubleday, of Italy Hill. After one year he became a student with Dr. Andrew D. Vorhees, of Prattsburgh, with whom he remained two years in the study of medicine, and also learned dentistry. He at- tended lectures at Geneva Medical College in 1845-46; subsequently at Buffalo Medical College, from which latter institution he was gradu- ated M.D. in June, 1848, and the same year settled in Prattsburgh, where he has remained in tho practice of medicine, surgery, and dentistry ever since.

Solicited by the war committee at Elmira, he became a volunteer surgeon in the service of the United States immediately after the second battle of Bull Run, and was fer a short time stationed at the Armory Square Ilospital, D. C. In September, 1863, he received a commission as assistant surgeon in the 161st Regiment, aod was with this regiment until the close of the war; was in the battles ef Mans- field, Pleasant Hill, Spanish Fort, and at the capture of Mobile. Sev- eral times Dr. Stoddard was detailed to take charge of hospitals. llc had charge of Gen. Bailey's brigade hospital at Vicksburg for a short time; of smallpox hospital at White River Landing; and received several complimentary appointments from Gen. Franklin for his well- koown faithfulness and sobriety, not less than for his skillful service as a surgeon, and was detailed by him to take charge of a boat-load ef three hundred wounded from Grand Ecore to New Orleans, after the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, and for a short time prior to the breaking up of the war he was stationed at the Dry Tortugas with his regiment.

During his two years' service, Dr. Stoddard had for eleven months sole charge of the regiment. Ilis faithfulness to duty, and his ability to discriminate between those able to de duty and those who were not was so correct that during the entire time, though he reported nine- teen hundred and twenty-nine cases of sickness and wounds, there was not a single death. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged and resumed his business in Prattsburgh, and has since continuously prosecuted not only the practice of medicine and surgery, but ef dentistry. When necessary, Dr. Stoddard assumes grave re- sponsibilities without hesitation, and operates with a skill which knowledge and firm courage alone impart. As an obstetrician he has few superiors. He was the first in town to administer chloroform successfully, and has since used it in all severe operations with highly satisfactory results. He counsels freely with all honorable physicians of whatever school. Besides his professional duties, he is interested in thoroughbred stock, and four years ago introduced the first into Prattsburgh, and now has a fine herd of Alderney and Jersey cattle.

In 1850, July 4, he married Sarah Jane, daughter of Sebastian Lewis, of Prattsburgh. Of this union was born one son, Philo L., who received his education at the Franklin Academy, and is now in the practice of dentistry with his father. Mrs. Stoddard dicd July 4, four years after her marriage, and in September, 1856, Dr. Stoddard married Sarah, daughter of Albert Cowing, of the town of Jerusalem, Yates Co.

Dr. Stoddard has ever been strictly temperate in his habits, and never allowed himself to use either liquor or tobacco. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a contributor to church and kindred interests, and in his professional life the needy receive the samo attention as those from whom he expects a fee.

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History of Steuben county, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 103

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford) Publication date: 1879 Publisher: Philadelphia, Lewis, Peck & co. Number of Pages: 826

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lewis, Peck & co.
Number of Pages: 826