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. . " Approach the grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."
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SABrooks
HON. ELIJAH P. BROOKS was the third son of Dr. Theseus Brooks, and was born in the town of Edmiston, Otsego Co., N. Y., March 4, 1819.
There were four sons and one daughter,-Henry S., Thomas J., Elijah P., William A., and Roxanna. William A. is the only surviving child. The mother died in October, 1877, in Elmira, in the ninety-first year of her age. The family removed to Big Flats, this county, about the year 1823, living there thirteen years, and coming to Elmira in 1835, where the head of the family, Dr. Brooks, died about the year 1858. Elijah P. Brooks, after receiving a common-school education, commenced learning the wagon-making trade; which not being in accordance with his taste, he soon left it to enter the law office of Hon. James Dunn, with whom he continued until his admission to the bar, Nov. 1, 1841, and afterwards effected a partner- ship with him, which continued for a number of years. Young Brooks proved himself a hard student, and after his admission to the bar worked with a diligence that soon brought him into prominence, and laid the foundation of that professional success the fruits of which in after-years he so lucratively reapcd.
His uprightness of character, his application, his thor- ough comprehension of the duties and demands of his honorable profession, all formed elements of success, and united to these were sagacity and ability.
He had fine business qualities, and by judicious invest- ments subsequently added to his fortune, the basis of which was formed in the active prosecution of his profession. He was a man of brilliant intellect, of large acquirements both generally and in his profession, and possessed in a peculiar degree those elements which attract and delight in social life.
The business life of Judge Brooks covers the whole period of the growth and prosperity of Elmira, out of its position as a secluded rural village of two thousand people to a busy and bustling city of twenty thousand. In every enterprise calculated to foster that growth he has been an active participant. His public spirit was marked and unflagging, while his judgment and shrewdness in business matters were seldom or never at fault. He was successful as a business man in his profession and in political life. He enjoyed a full share of public honors, and discharged every duty, public or private, with scrupulous fidelity, and with ability ever manifest and recognized.
He became active in politics, and for years was one of the honored leaders of the Republican party in Western New York. During the war Judge Brooks patriotically and actively interested himself in sustaining the govern- ment, and was one of a committee of influential citizens who gave assistance to raise regiments and enable the district to fill its quota of troops. He was elected county judge and surrogate of Chemung County in 1860, acceptably and creditably serving four years as such. For several years he was one of the canal appraisers of this State, being appointed March 22, 1865. He was also a member in 1857 of the State Constitutional Convention.
He married, Aug. 30, 1842, Prudence Ann, a daughter of Gabriel Sayre, who lived in the town of Chemung. His brother, William A., also married a daughter of Mr. Sayre.
Judge Brooks died at his residence on College Hill, in Elmira, May 19, 1878. Mrs. Brooks survives her husband, with a family of four children,-Mrs. Charles A. Willis, Fanny, Charles, and Tracy B., a lawyer of this city.
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HON. THOMAS MAXWELL was horn Feb. 16, 1792, at Athens, Pa., and came to Elmira (then Newtown Point) in 1796; his father removing in that year to enter into the mercantile business and sell his village lots, he having hought one hundred acres of land, which constituted more than one-half of the business part of the city. Ilis father heing a man of considerable property and holding positions of trust and honor, he no doubt had fair advantages for education, although it did not extend beyond the English branches.
He married young, and his first wife was a Miss Sayre, sister of Hector and Jonas Sayre, of Horseheads. She died young, leaving a daughter, who also died, about fourteen years of age, in 1832.
llis second wife was Miss Maria Purdy, daughter of Andrew Purdy, of Spencer, whom he married, probably, in 1819. She died in 1846. At the time of his death he was living with a third wife, formerly a Miss Richardson.
Mr. Maxwell was the third clerk of Tioga County, Spencer then being the shire town, and served from March, 1819, to January 1, 1829. His first three years of service was by appointment, under the old constitution of the State. In 1822 he was elected under the new constitution, and again re-elected in 1825. He was elected in 1828 to the House of Representatives, and served during the term of the Twenty-first Congress. In 1834 he was appointed postmaster at Elmira, which office he filled for several years. In 1836, when the county was divided, he received the appointment of deputy clerk, to transcribe all the records pertaining to the new county of Chemung. lle was at one time, ahout 1841, vice-president of the New York and Erie Rail- road Company. When Judge Monell became elerk of the Supreme Court (1844 or 1845), Mr. Maxwell received the appointment of deputy, and removed to Geneva, where he remained while an incumbent of the office. While there he was admitted as an attorney and coun- selor in the Supreme Court. He was contemporary with some of the greatest men in the nation, was on intimate terms with many of them, and enjoyed their friendship and esteem as long as they lived.
With all his ability he was one of the most retiring and modest of men, and it was torture to him to he called upon to speak in public. He once related an anecdote of his first and only experience at addressing the House while he was a member of Congress. He had a petition or resolution to offer, and when he arose to his feet, caught the eye of the Speaker and was announced as having the floor, he said he imagined the eyes of every member were fixed upon him, and the numher seemed multiplied until he was surrounded by a multitude of eager and anxious listeners. How he got through he had no concep- tion : hut so great was his fright that, when he had finished his remarks. he added, "All in favor will say aye," and sat down mentally and physically exhausted. "That," said he, " was the most effective thing I said, for it created a great deal of amusement, and I was repeatedly congratulated for the witty hit I had made."
Had his assurance heen equal to his ability, Mr. Maxwell would have
won a position second to no man in the State. His memory was remarkable, and anything he read was stored away to be used when wanted. lle was a tireless worker, and never relaxed in his labors, only to spend his leisure in his well-selected and valuable library.
Not long after 1840 inisfortunes thickened around him : the modest accumulation of his labor was swept away, and his library went with his other property, and that to him was his most grievous loss. He repeatedly said that he designed to collect a library which should be as complete as his means would permit, and his records of local history should be unsurpassed, and that the entire collection of printed vol- umes and manuseripts should be given to the village. He said when it passed out of his hands he wanted it to be of public benefit, and it should be his legacy to the town where his whole life had been spent.
A large part of his business was the procuring of pensions for soldiers and widows of the Revolution and the war of 1812. In this manner he acquired au immense amount of knowledge of great his- toric value, and the number of personal incidents he could relate of prominent actors in those wars was almost endless; and they are undoubtedly true. for they were personal reminiscenees of those who came to solicit his aid to procure pensions. lle never attempted a case without an alnost certainty that the claim was a just one : and he could not well be deceived, for there was not a brigade or regiment or hardly a company that he did not remember who the officers were and how long they served. His acceptance of a claimn was almost a warrant that it would be recognized by the government. It did not seein to occur to him that he ought to receive pay for the knowledge he had gained, and it was with diffidence that he named most modest fees for his services. Had he been as devoted to accumulating money a - he was to the interests of his elients he might have built a temple to mammon.
lle was a most unselfish and amiable man, and in the family circle was loved with unwavering affection. His habits were simple and unostentatious, and his demeanor was ever the same, whether enter- taining peer or commoner. No one was so humble as not to gain access to him at any moment, and the same courtesy governed him in all his intercourse with his fellow-men. His benevolence was only limited by his means, and it was of so unobtrusive a character that he seeined quite unconscious of it himself. The noble nature he possessed never degeneratel, either in prosperity or adversity, and the steady poise of his inind was never disturbed either by the flattery of success or hy pecuniary ruin. A monarch in the world of intellect, he was too modest to assume his proper place in the front ranks of the great men of his generation. A devotel lover of his country, his patriotism was not limited by party policy or prejudice, and the advanee of our Re- public to greatness was dearer to him than personal aggrandizement. Ilis religion was confined to no sert nor creal: he indulged in no narrow prejudices, and placed simple faith in the universal goodness of the Creator.
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1823. Theodore North .**
1826. Hiram Gray.t
James Dunn.#
1859. S. C. Reynolds.t
1828. Edward Quin.
J. B. White.t
1831. Elijah Carpenter. Hezekiah Woodruff.#
1832. Thomas Maxwell.#
Anson Little.
Isaac B. Goodwin .*
Lucius Robinsont (Gov- ernor of New York).
1835. John W. Wisner.#
John A. Gillett .** Samuel G. Hathaway, Jr .* Joseph Herron.
1836. Ariel S. Thurston .¡
1837. David Herron.
1838. Elijah P. Brooks.#
George A. Gardner.#
1839. James H. Leavitt.
1841. R. L. G. Bancroft. William North.
J. A. Frisbie.t
C. C. Gardiner.
John A. Reynolds. t
II. M. Smith. t
1867. A. F. Babcock. t A. D. Blair. t
1868. Jerome Banks.
David C. Robinson.t
1869. Platt Rogers.
Leroy A. Baker. t
J. Wood Green.
S. S. Taylor. t Laurens A. Thomas.
Edward C. Vanduzer. t C. A. Collin.t
1870. Hala Barnes.t
O. C. Harrington.
II. H. Rockwell.t
R. F. Randolph.
Thomas M. Hite. t
J. T. Atwill.t
1871. M. A. Horton.
G. Smith Carman.
1872. C. R. Pratt.t
James A. Towner.
William Fowler.
Charles P. Thurston. t
James Wright.t
O. W. Palmer.
J. W. Work.
. Peter G. Vanderlyn.“ Thomas C. Welch.
E. K. Roper. t Jabez R. Ward.t
1850. F. O. Rogers.
HI. Boardman Smith.t
S. B. Tomlinson.t
1851. John Murdoch.f William H. Gale.
- Hunt.
- Van Voorhis.
1852. Levi Gibbs.
F. C. Dininny.t
1876. Charles A. Dolson.
A. V. Murdoch.
Do B. Goodell, Jr.
Marquis D. Curtis.
Charles d' Autremont, Jr.
HI. HI. Baldwin.
1877. - House.
1854. J. Davis Dunn.t
O. A. Hungerford.
D. W. C. Curtis.t
--- Pike.
1855. I. N. Comstock.
E. E. Harding.
Rufus King.t
G. W. Harding.
George L. Davis.t
1856. Edward Lowman.#
1857. R. II. Ransom.t
+ Members of the present bar.
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
The physician of whom we have record as residing the earliest in Chemung County was Dr. JOSEPH HINCHMAN, late of Newtown (now Elmira). He was born at Jamaica, on Long Island, Aug. 28, 1762. His father and grand- father before him, both namncd Joseph, were physicians and surgeons. Surgical instruments of singular shape, used by them all, were in the family at a late date. The father of our Dr. Hinchman was a surgeon of an English man-of- war in August, 1757, and an uncle was surgeon's mate. The vessel was wrecked while cruising among the West India Islands, a little to the north of Hayti. Twenty-four only of the whole number on board escaped in a yawl, in- cluding the two brothers. For four days they were without food or water, and at the end of the time fell into the hands of the French and were put in prison. While confined at Cape François, an engagement occurred, Oct. 21, 1758, be- tween a formidable French naval force, consisting of four ships of the line and three frigates, under M. Kersin, and three English frigates (the " Augusta," "Edinboro," and " Dreadnaught"), under Commodore Forest, in which the lat- ter gained a decided advantage, notwithstanding his inferior force. On the 24th of November following an exchange of prisoners took place and the two brothers were liberated, who proceeded at once to New York and thence to Long Island, where they found their families. The father of Dr. Joseph Hinchman, of Chemung, died when the latter was of a tender age, and at the age of sixteen years the son entered the Revolutionary army as a soldier. He was in several severe engagements, and was in camp at Morristown during a winter of great privation and sorrow. When the term of his enlistment expired he studied medicine with his uncle in Florida, Orange Co., N. Y., and commenced his medical practice at Minisink. On Dec. 20, 1787, he married Zuriah Secley, a daughter of B. Seeley, of Mil- ford, on the Delaware, and removed to the town of Chemung, then in the county of Montgomery, in June, 1788, settling upon what has since been known as the Lowman farm. In 1793-94 he removed to Newtown, where he had an exten- sive practice as a physician and surgeon.
He was appointed by Gov. George Clinton sheriff of Tioga County, Feb. 18, 1795, being the second officer of that name in the county. On Nov. 13, 1800, Governor Jay appointed him a commissioner to inspect and improve the road leading from Catskill Landing, in Greene County, to Catharine's town, in Tioga County.
In personal appearance Dr. Hinchman was of medium size and of a florid complexion ; his manners werc affable and pleasing, and at the same time his energy of character was remarkable.
He died July 28, 1802, regretted by a large circle of prominent individuals who were his warm personal friends. The doctor was a bright and zealous Mason, one who had made a deep research into the hidden meaning of its rites and ceremonics, and was by reason of his findings in that direc- tion the more ardently attached to the order. The fra- ternity held their regular meetings in an upper room in his
# This sketch is drawn from the History of Chemung Valley, before quoted.
# Dead.
1860. George M. Diven.t J. II. Hardy. t
1861. M. V. B. Bachman.t
Cyrus Barlow.
1862. George Beebe. S. C. Taber.t Robert T. Turner.t
1863. W. L. Muller.t Robert Stevens.t
1864. James Flynn.
David B. Hill.t E. M. Hulett. Lewis M. Smith.t
1865. E. B. Youmans.t
1866. R. S. Ransom.
Seymour Dexter.t
Joseph L. Darling .* Stephen T. Covell.
1842. George P. Tyler. E. P. Hart.t
1843. E. O. Crosby.
Isaac B. Gregg.
Walter L. Dailey.t Daniel Marsh.
Wm. P. Konkle.
Thos. S. Spaldingt (county judge).
1844. Chester B. Evans. George B. Woods.
1845. Alexander S. Diven. t James L. Woods.t
1846. Frederick Phelps. Theodore North.#
1847. - Adams.
1848. G. A. Brush.t
Archibald Robertson.t
1849. Jeremiah McGuire.t
J. A. Christiet (distriet at- torney).
N. P. Fassett.t
Gabriel L. Smith.t E. H. Benn.
1873. John R. Joslyn.t George E. Pratt.t P. M. Baum.
1874. E. J. Baldwin.t Roswell R. Moss.
1875. Frederick Collin. E. L. Hart.
Jacob Schwartz.
John K. Hale.
D. W. Gillett.
D. Y. Overton.
1853. W. H. Patterson. II. II. Phelps. A. S. Lowe.t
1878. Lawrence M. Young. J. F. Thompson.t
1858. John T. Davidson.t E. F. Babcock.t
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HISTORY OF TIOGA, CHEMUNG, TOMPKINS,
house for many years. The doctor was the first person buried in the new burying-ground of Newtown, now called the " old one of Elmira."
DR. ELIAS SATTERLEE was another old physician of Chemung, coming to Elmira from Athens in 1803, when about thirty years old. His father, Benedict Satterlee, of Wyoming, was the progenitor of twelve children, of whom the doctor was the youngest son. The old gentleman died when Elias was about three years old, and shortly afterwards his mother, then in the last stages of consumption, was obliged to flee with her family to the eastward, to her rela- tives, where she survived but a short time the fatigues and terrors of hier flight. Elias remained there until about twenty years of age, and soon after that date came to Athens, Pa., and began the study of medicine with Dr. Hopkins. He practiced there a few years and then came to Elmira. From 1805 till his death, Nov. 11, 1815, he had a large practice, and was celebrated in obstetrics, and was the first physician to practice that branch of his profession in this section. He was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of a gunsmith who was repairing it. The piece was not known to be loaded, and the doctor happening to be in the shop with his little boy, stepped in front of the muzzle to give his child a better opportunity to see the operation, when, after snapping the lock several times, the gun was discharged, the ball entering the doctor's body and remaining therein, from which he died four hours after re- ceiving the injury.
His family consisted of two sons and three daughters.
DR. AMOS PARK came from Orange County to New- town Settlement in 1793. Not much is known of his life prior to that time. He built, it is said, the first framed house erected in Elmira, on the banks of the river wherc the gas-works stand. He is said to be the first preacher as well as the first physician in Elmira, and for a few years followed the one profession as much as the other. His rides extended to the farthest limits of settlement, when- ever his patients furnished him a horse to ride ; otherwise his walks were thus prolonged. Hc looked to his own comfort, however, as an anecdote related of him will show. One cold December night one Mrs. Wynings roused him from his slumbers, she having come several miles through the deep snow on horseback, leading another horse for the doctor to ride back on. He was, after much per- suasion, induced to return with the lady, and so dressed himself to withstand the rigor of the weather. He hardly left his own door, however, before he began to complain of the cold, and his murmurs lest his feet should freeze be- came at last so intolerable the lady took the oversocks from her own fect and drew them over the doctor's boots, and his shanks were thus kept warm by a woman's stockings. He was twice married, and was the father of some twenty children, many of whom died in carly life. He was a Freemason, and was for many years the Worshipful Master of the first Masonic lodge of Elmira, which he aided to organize.
DR. JOTHIAM PURDY was a prominent surgeon of the county. He was born in Westchester County, May 4, 1799, and removed with his father's family, in 1804, to Spencer, Tioga Co., and at eighteen years of age began the
study of medicine with Dr. Lewis Beers, of that place ; he attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City, and was admitted to practice in 1821, remained in Spencer two years, and then came to Elmira, where he continued in the practice until his sudden death, Aug. 11, 1858. He, carly in his practice, earned the rep- utation of a surgeon, which he retained till his death, doing for many years an exclusively surgical practice, his skill being unquestioned, and his calls being from far and near. He was an eminent Mason, and prominent in the various grades of the order. He married Dr. Satterlee's eldest daughter.
DR. NATHAN BOYNTON was another of the leading physicians of the earlier days. He was born in Hampshire Co., Mass., June 30, 1788, removed thence to Otsego County, 1795, thence to St. Lawrence County, 1806. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Colby Knapp in Guilford, Chenango, in 1814, and attended lectures at Fairfield 1816-17, and received a license from the censors of the Chenango Medical Society in February of the latter year, and began his practice -immediately in Bainbridge in that county, where he married, and continued in practice for cighteen years. He then removed to Southport, Che- mung Co., and five years later to Elmira, where he was engaged in active practice till his death, in June, 1859. Dr. Boynton was an active, ambitious, and prominent man in the profession.
DR. CHRISJOHN SCOTT was an eccentric German physi- cian, who came to Newtown before 1800. His turnout was as unique as its driver, being a gig with two horses tandem. He was a great story-teller, and pretended to possess the power of divination, and mingled magic with his medicines, and consulted his crystal as often as his dis- pensatory. He used to say he once met and defeated the devil, his satanic majesty saying he would give the doctor another bout at a more convenient season. It was claimed by those who knew him best that he was well educated, and it is certain he possessed surgical instruments and made pretenses of surgical knowledge. He married, but left no issue.
DR. THESEUS BROOKS was among the leading physi- cians of the county, and was born in Berkshire Co., Mass., in 1778, studied medicine with Dr. Henry Mitchell, of Norwich, Chenango Co., whither his father's family re- moved in 1800. He removed to Big Flats in 1821, where he resided, having an extensive ride, until 1835, when he removed to Elmira, where he died March, 1856. Dr. Brooks was a successful and popular physician, gentle and affable in his ways, and accumulated a fine property. Hon. Elilu P. Brooks, county judge of Chemung County, was his son.
Other prominent physicians of the earlier days were Dr. Uriah Smith, born in Southport, 1799, and a student of Dr. Lemuel Hudson, and began to practice in 1821, and continued until his death, Sept. 14, 1864, having an cx- tensive ride in Southport and Elmira. Dr. N. Aspinwall was a long-time practitioner of Cayuga County, and came to Elmira to spend a ripe old age, where he died July 3, 1861, aged eighty-three years. Dr. Lemuel Hudson was for years a noted physician of the county, being an early
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member and president of the Tioga County Medieal So- ciety.
DR. HORACE SEAMAN came to Veteran in 1830, and was the first physician to pitch his teut in that town, where he still resides and follows aetively his professional practice. He is a graduate of tlie Castleton Medical College, Vermont. His obstetrical practice has been very extensive, he having been present at 2100 accouchements during his long prae- tice. His skill is undoubted in this direction. Dr. Scaman is seventy-one years of age, his museular energies failing, but his intellcet and mental vigor unimpaired. He is the only physician living of the original organizers of the Che- mung Medieal Society.
THE CHEMUNG COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY
was organized May 3, 1836, at a meeting ealled at the public- house in the village of Elmira kept by E. Jones, which stood on the site now occupied by the Advertiser publish- ing-house, the following physicians being present : Lemuel Hudson, Asa R. Howell, N. D. Gardiner, John Payne, Erastus L. Hart, Nelson Winton, Thescus Brooks, Horace Seaman, H. M. Graves, W. E. Boothe, F. Demorest, Uriah Smith, and Z. H. Monroe. Dr. Hudson was chosen ehair- man, and Dr. Howell secretary, of the mecting, and Drs. Payne, Hart, Winton, Demorest, and Howell were appointed a committee on " constitution." The committee reported a constitution at the same meeting, which was adopted, and remained in foree until June 6, 1851, when a second eon- stitution of this society was adopted. The first officers of the society were elected at the same meeting on the adop- tion of the constitution, and were as follows : President, Dr. Lemuel Hudson ; Vice-President, Dr. Nelson Winton ; Sec- retary, Dr. Asa R. Howell ; Treasurer, Dr. F. Demorest ; Censors, Drs. Erastus L. Hart, Theseus Brooks, H. M. Graves, Horace Seaman, W. E. Boothc. At a later stage of this meeting, Drs. E. H. Eldridge and Lewis Miller were admitted as members of the society. Three honorary mem- bers of the society have been admitted : Drs. Hatch, May 3, 1856 ; James Herron, May 4, 1859 ; and Norman Smith, April 4, 1866. But two licenses to practice have been granted by the society : to Edward H. Tompkins, Jan. 10, 1837, and to Orson Smith Gregory, April 10, 1844. In- teresting and able papers have been read from time to time before the society by its president, vice-presidents, and others, giving much valuable information on the diagnosis and treat- inent of various diseases, by which the usefulness and in- fluence of the society have been enlarged and the practice of medieine by its members improved and elevated. Dr. Horace Seaman, of Millport, is the only survivor of the original thirteen physicians who organized the society.
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