History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I, Part 147

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898, ed
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.E. Preston & Co.
Number of Pages: 1354

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" Report on Toxas Cattle Disoase." By George J. Fisher, M.D. P'p. 2. [Report of Metropolitan Board of Ilealth, 1868, p. 189-190.]

1869.

" Report to Metropolitan Board of Health of Sanitary Inspector of the Town of Ossining." By George J. Fisher, M.D. Pp. 2. [ Report Met. Bd. of Health for 1869, p. 165-16G.]

1870.

" Does Maternal Mental Influence have any Constructive or Destruc- tive Power in the Production of' Malformations or Monstrosities at any Stage of Embryonic Development ?" By G. J. Fisher, M.D., of Sing Sing, N. Y. Pp. 57. [Reprinted from vol. xxvi. of the Am. Jr. of In- sanity for January, 1870. Utica, N. Y., 1870.1

"Three Cases of Imperforate Anus, with Remarks." By J. II. Pooley. M.D. P'p. 20. [Reprinted from Am. Jr. Obst., vol. iii., No. 1, May, 1870.] " Tent Hospitals." By J. Foster Jenkins, M.D. I'p. 25. [Trans. Am. Social Science Assoc. Cambridge, Mass., 1874.]

"A Medico-Legal Opinion relating to the sanity of Carlton Gates." By Charles A. Lee, M.D. Pp. 30. [Papers read before the Med .- Leg. Soc. of the City of New York. First series, p. 204-233.]

1871.

" A Contribution to the Natural History of Tubercles." By C. F. Rodenstein, M.D. Pp. 20. [Read beforo the Yonkers Mod. Association. Published at the request of Med. Soc. of Westchester County, N. Y. Re- printed from the N. Y. Med. Jr., Dec., 1871.]

"The Late Dr. Johu Conolly, of Hanwell, England." By Charles A. Lee, M.D. Pp. 12. [ Reprinted from the Am. Pract. for Aug. 1871.]

" Report of the Surgical Cases Treated in the St. John's Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, N. Y., during, the Year 1870." By J. H. Pooley M.D. P'p. 19. [Reprinted from the N. Y. Med. Jr., Nov., 1871.]

"Suggestious Relative to the Sequestration of the Person of Alleged Luuatics." By R. L. l'arsons, M. D. Pp. 42. [Papers read before the Med .- Legal Soc. of the City of New York. First series, p. 332-373.]

4. Medico-Legal Considerations upon Alcoholism, and the Moral and Criminal Responsibility of Inebriates." By Paluel De Marmon, M.D. Pp. 24. [Read before the Med .- Leg. Soc. of the City of New York, March 31, 1871. Reprinted from the Med. World, Dec. 1871 ; also in first series of papers read before Med .- Leg. Soc. of the City of New York, p. 374- 402.]

" Medico Legal Suggestions on Insanity." By Charles A. Lee, M.D. Pp. 22. [Papers read before the Med-Leg. Soc. First series, p. 467- 488.]

1872.

"On Imperforate Anns : the Rectum Communicating with the Vag- inu." By J. II. Pooley, M.D. Pp. 34. [Reprinted from Am. Jr. of Ob- stetrics, &c., vol. iv., No. 4, Feb., 1872.]

'The Origin of Cesarean Section ; an historical sketch." By C. F. Rodenstein, M.D. Pp. 19. [Reprinted from the N. Y. Med. Jr., April, 1872.]

" Two Cases of Rare Disease of the Tongue." By J. II. Pooley, M.D. l'p. 4. [ Extracted from Amer. Jr. Med. Sci. for April, 1872.]

"Report of the Surgical Cases Treated in the St. John's Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, N. Y., during the year 1871 (second year)." By J. Il. Pooley, M.D. I'p. 20. [Reprinted from the N. Y. Med. Jr., Nov., 1872.]

" Some General Remarks on the Surgery of Childhood." By J. HI. Pooley, M.D. Pp. 13. [Reprinted from " Traus. Med. Soc. of the State of New York," 1872.]

1873.

" Thermometry in Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis." By C. F. Rodenstein, MI.D. Pp. 13. [Read before Med. Soc. of the County of Westchester. Reprinted from Dr. Brown-Sequard's " Archives of Scientific and l'racti- cal Medicine," vol. i. p. 210-222, March, 1873.]

" Navus." By J. Il. Pooley, M.D. Pp. 28. [Reprinted from N. Y. Med. Jr., June, 1873.]

"Report of the Surgical Cases Treated in the St. John's Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, N. Y., during the yeur 1872 (third year)." By J. II. Pooley, M.D. Pp. 30. [Reprinted from N. Y. Med. Jr., Oct., 1873.]

" Case of Epithelioma of the Cheek and Lower Eyelid. Removal- Blepharoplasty." By J. H. Pooley, M.D. Pp. 7. [ Reprinted from "Archives of Ophthalmology and Otology," vol. iii., 1873.]

1874.

"Cases in Surgery, Lumbar Colotomy, etc." By J. II. Pooley, M.D. Pp. 11. [Reprinted from the N. Y. Med. Jr., Jau., 1874.]

" Injections of Tincture of Iodine into the Cavity of the Uterus in Hemorrhage after Delivery." By James D. Trask, M D. I'p. 15. [Re- printed from Jr. of Obstetrics for Feb., 1875.]

"Morphine-Poisoning Successfully Treated by Atropia and Electricity." By J. D. Trask, M.D. Pp. 13. [Roprinted from the N. Y. Med. Jr., · Aug., 1874.]

"Report of the Surgical Cases Treated in the St. John's Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, N. Y., during the year 1873 (fourth year)." By J. H. Pooley, M.D. Pp. 29. [Reprinted from V. Y. Med. Jr., Dec., 1874, and Jan., 1875.]

"Injuries which Happen to the Wrist-Joint and to the Parts in its Vicinity, as Results of Falls upon the Iland. An examination of the evi- dence on which is based the establishment of the occurrence of luxations at the wrist and radio-carpal articulations ; also a consideration of the nature of the deformity, of the symptoms and of the treatment of Colles' fracture, with a resume of the literature of this subject, being the Merritt II. Cash prize essay for 1874." By Thomas K. Cruse, M.D. I'p. 63. [Trans. Med. Society of the State of New York, 1874, p. 56-118.]

1875.

" De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonnm. Biographical sketches of lately de- ceased members of the Medical Society of the County of Westchester." Published by the vote of the Society, passed June 16, 1874. 8vo, pp. 40. Katonah, N. Y., 1875.

"Biographical Sketch of the Late James Fountain, M. D., of Jeffer- son Valley, Westchester County, N. Y." By James II. Curry, M.D. Pp. 9. Katonah, N. Y., 1875.

" Biographical Sketch of Philander Stewart, M.D., of Peekskill, N. Y." By J. H. Curry, M.D. Pp. 4. Katonalı, N. Y., 1874.

"Biographical Sketch of l'eter Moulton, M.D." By Dr. William C. Pryer. Pp. 9. Katonah, N. Y., 1875.

" Tecratology." By George Jackson Fisher, M.D. Pp. 4. [Johnson's "Cyclopadia," vol. iv. p. 782-785.]

"Inaugural and Anniversary Addresses delivered before the Medical Society of tho State of New York, at its Sixty-ninth Session, held at the City of Albany, February 2, 3, and 4, 1875." By the President, George Jackson Fisher, M.D., of Sing Sing, N. Y. 8vo, pp. 57. New York : G. I'. Putnam's Sons, 1875. [Trans. of the Med. Soc. of the State of New York for the year 1875, p. 4-15, p. 54-111.]

1877.

" A Brief Ilistorical Sketch of tho Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood." By George Jackson Fisher, M.D. Pp. 14. [ Reprinted by the Popular Science Monthly, July, 1877.]

1878.

" On the Effect of Atropine in Diminishing the Pains and Shorten- ing the Duration of the First Stage of Labor." By Ilenry L. Ilorton, M. D. [Reprinted from the Am. Jr. of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women aud Children, vol. xi., No. 3, July, 1878.] Pp. 20. New York, 1878.

"Clinical Notes in Obstetrics and Gynaecology." Read before the Yonkers Med. Association March 15, 1878. By Eugene Peugnet, M D. I'p. 83. [Reprinted from the Ohio Med. aud Surg. Jr., Columbus, 1878. ]

1879.

"Observations on the Digestion of Milk." By E. F. Brush, M.D. [N. Y. Med. Jr., Sept., 1879.]

1880.

"Caso of a Rare Variety of Human Diprosopic Monster, with Obser- vations on the Genus Diprosopus." By George Jackson Fisher, M.D. l'p. 4. [Annals of the Anatomical and Surgical Society, Brooklyn, N. Y., vol. ii. p. 193-197.]

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1880-83.

"Ifistorical and Bibliographical Notes : A Series of Sketches of the Lives, Times and Works of the Old Masters of Anatomy and Surgery." By George Jackson Fisher, M.D. Pp. 330. [Annals of Anatomy and Surgery, New York and Brooklyn, vols. ii .- viii., 1880-83. Vol. ii .: Parė, Eustachius, Colot, Fallopius, Taliacotius, Columbus, Wiseman, Fabricius ah Aquapendente, Guy de Chauliac, Harvey. Vol. iii .: Har- vey, Rhodion, Hippocrates. Vol. iv. · Herophilns and Erasistratus, Galen. Vol. v .: Celsus. Vol. vi .: Mundinus, Rhazes. Vol. vii .: Avicenna, Hally Abbas. Vol. viii .: Alhucasis, Avenzoar.]

1SS1.

" Milk. An essay read [before the Med. Soc. of the County of West- chester Tuesday, June 21, 1881." By E. F. Brush, M.D., Mount Vernon, N. Y. [The Med. Record, vol. xx. p. 149-151.]

" Skimmed Milk as an Article of Food." By E. F. Brush, M. D. [The Med. Record, vol. xx. p. 459-461.]

" One Mode of Improving Cow's Milk for Human Food. Read be- fore the Yonkers Med. Soc. Oct. 7, 1881." By E. F. Brush, M.D. [Ibid., vol. xx. p. 539-541.]

" Kumyss." By E. F. Brush, M.D. [fbid., vol. xx. p. 673-675.] "One Phase of the Germ Theory. Read before the Yonkers Med. Soc. April 22, 1881." By E. F. Brush, M.D. [Ibid., vol. xiv. p. 568- 569.]

" The Tartrate of Quinoline as an Antiperiodic." By Edwin I. Harring- ton, M.D. Pp. 3, and temperature charts. [Med. Bulletin, Phila., Nov. 1881.]

" Nicholas Tulp-(1593-1672)." A sketch hy George Jackson Fisher, M.D., of Sing Sing, N. Y. Pp. 5. [N. C. Med. Jr., vol. vii. p. 204-208, Wilmington, N. C., 1881.]

"On the Private Care of the Insane." By Ralph L. Parsons, M.D. Pp. 26. [Repriut from The Alienist and Neurologist, St. Louis, Oct. 1881.]

1882.

" Imperfect Nutrition in Infants." By E. H. Hermance, M.D., Yon- kers, N. Y. [The Med. Rec., vol. xxii. p. 320.]

" Acute Milk-Poisoning." By E. F. Brush, M.D. [The Med. Rec., vol. xxii. p. 424-426.]

1883.

" Vaccination Observations and Suggestions." By E. F. Brush, M.D. [The Med. Rec., vol. xxiii. p. 677-679.]

" ŒEsophagitis as a Disease of Infancy." By E. F. Brushi, M.D. [Ibid., vol. p. xxiii. 35-37.]

" Reciprocal Insanity." By Ralph L. Parsons, M.D. Pp. 17. [Re- printed from the Alienist and Neurologist, Oct. 1883.]

" Jury Trial of the Insane." By Ralph L. Parsons, M.D. Pp. 27. [Papers read before the )led .- Legal Soc. of the City of N. Y., 1883, p. 327-353.]

1884.

" Sketch of Abul-Walid Mohammed Ibn-Ahmed 1hn-Mohammed 1bn- Roslid (commonly called Averroës)." By George Jackson Fisher, M.D. Pp. 5. (Pop. Sci. Monthly, July, 1884, p. 405-409.]

" A Memorial Sketch of the Life and Character of the late John Foster Jenkins, A.M., M.D., of Yonkers, N. Y." By George Jackson Fisher, M.D., of Sing Sing, N. Y. Pp. 21. [Reprinted from the Transactions of the Med. Soc. of the State of N. Y., hy order of the Med. Soc. of West- chester Co., N. Y. Syracuse, N. Y., 1884.]

" The Faculty of Speech." By E. F. Brush, M.D. [Popular Science Monthly, April, 1884.]

" An Obstinate Case of Ovarian Dysmenorrhea, Oophorectomy, with Remarks on the Utility of the Operation." By E. H. Hermance, M.D., of Yonkers, N. Y. [The Med. Rec. vol. xxv. p. 430-431.]

1885.

"Ilistory of Surgery." By George Jackson Fisher, M.D. Pp. 57. [International Encyclopædia of Surgery, N. Y., 1886, vol. vi. p. 1146-1202.] " Vesical and Renal Calculi-Open Urachus-Lithotomy." By A. C. Benedict, M.D., of Yonkers, N. Y. [The Med. Rec., vol. xxvii. p. 208. N. Y., 1885.]

"Tranmatic Gastric Fistula Opening into the Pancreatic Duct, result- ing in death after forty years." By E. F. Brush, M.D., of Mt. Vernon, N. Y. [The Med. Rec., vol. xxvii. p. 623-624. N. Y., 1885.]

"Intubation of the Larynx." By E. F. Brush, M.D. [Ibid, vol. xxvii. p. 206-207. N. Y., 1885.]

Dr. Peter Hugeford, of Cortlandtown, was probably the first regular physician in the northwestern por- tion of Westchester County.

He was an Englishman by birth and education, an accomplished medical practitioner and a gentleman of the decided English stamp, as can be seen by his full-length portrait which now hangs in an ancient parlor of his granddaughter, Mrs. Betsey Field, a widow of over eighty years, residing near the village of Peekskill. He was a successful practitioner pre- vious to the Revolution. Being a Royalist, he retired to the British army when war was declared. His fine farm of two hundred acres was confiscated, and sub- sequently given by government to John Paulding, for his service as one of the three captors of Major Andre.

He was probably the most accomplished physician of his day in this country.

Dr. Stanly, of Cortlandtown, was cotemporary with Dr. Hugeford. He emigrated from Connecticut, and settled in Cortlandtown, at precisely what date is not known. He was celebrated for his great caution ; he carried with him his scale and weights, and at all times weighed carefully every dose of medicine he administered.

He had one son, whom he educated thoroughly to the medical profession. Young Dr. Stanly married the only child of Richard Currie, a wealthy farmer of this county. They united under the most auspicious and flattering circumstances. He died prematurely of brandy, his wife of opium, leaving a large family, most of them in indigent circumstances.

Dr. Elias Cornelius, of Somers, was a native of Long Island, and served as surgeon's mate in the Revolutionary army. After the close of the war he settled in the western part of Somers, where he prac- ticed his profession over forty years with eminent success and credit. During the Revolution he con- tracted the habit of smoking, snuffing and tippling, but, contrary to the generally received opinion, was never intoxicated during his long and arduous life.

Dr. James Fountain says: "Dr. Cornelius was truly a pattern physician ; with a very limited medi- cal education, he commenced the active duties of his profession, but full of energy and ambition, he studied and practiced both by day and by night. He kept three good horses, and rode off rapidly, and on his arrival at home he gave his horse over to his groom, and went directly into his office, and there spent all his available time in the pursuit of knowl- edge or in the compounding of medicines. He availed himself of every means of information; he commenced taking the first medical periodical ever published iu America, viz. : The Medical Repository, and ever since continued to read it. He had also all the principal authors of his day, and studied them thoroughly. Having been inspired by a genuine love, with the requisite enthusiasm, for his profession, he gave it his undivided attention, and the whole

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foree of his energies and talents were made sub- servient to it. He died at the age of sixty-eight years, having been blessed with a large family, which were carefully and respectably bred. One of his sons, having been thoroughly educated, became one of the most celebrated and accomplished divines in the New England States."

He commenced life in extreme poverty, and left his heirs an estate of nearly fifty thousand dollars.

Dr. Lyman Cook, of Cortlandtown, was an eminent and successful physician. He was chosen the dele- gate of the Westchester County Society, which he represented by attending the first meeting of the State Medical Society in 1807.

Hc engaged somewhat in politics, and was once elected to the office of high sheriff of the county. He removed to one of the Western States, where he located as a physician.

Dr. Elias Quereau, of Yorktown, was born in the city of New York, and pursued his medical studies under Dr. Hugeford. Early in the Revolutionary War he married in the city of New York, where he engaged in practice for a short time.

Owing to the unsettled state of the country he fre- quently changed his residence and field of practice. Being a Royalist, he embarked for St. John's, with other refugees, but soou returned to his native State in consequence of the inclemency of the Canadian climate. He finally settled in Yorktown, in this county, which was the native place of his wife, where he continued to reside during the remainder of his lifc.

In Yorktown he seems to have commenced auew. He joined the Baptist denomination and became an active member. With a few others he built a church, which, under the charge of Elder E. Fountain, was a prosperous society, was kept together forty years by their united aid, and continues to the present.

He was a modest, quiet and unassuming man, and a pious, consistent and benevolent Christian. His Sunday earnings he iuvariably set apart for the bene- fit of the church, believing that, as his duties on that sacred day were labors of love and necessity, he had no right to appropriate the avails thereof to the com- mon purposes of life. He died in his eighty-sixth year, leaving several children and many friends to la- ment his loss.

Dr. Francis Fowler practiced in White Plains and vicinity about eighty or nincty years ago. He came from Newburgh, Orange County, N. Y., and soon af- ter his arrival married a sister of ex-Sheriff Amos W. Hatfield, of White Plains. His talents and practice are said to have been respectable and gave promise of good sueccss, but in a few years after set- tling in White Plains, he died, leaving a widow, but no children.

Dr. Brewster also practiced in White Plains prev- ious to or about the time of Dr. Fowler, but nothing further is known of him.

Dr. William Baldwin, late of New York City, lies beneath a large, plain, but handsome monument, in the yard of the first, or old Methodist Church, of White Plains. He was born in Northford, Conn., commenced practice about 1800, and married Eliza- beth, daughter of John Falconer, a prominent citi- zen of White Plains, where he practiced with con- siderable success for about fifteen years. He then removed to the city of New York and located him- self in East Broadway ; became a prominent and suc- cessful practitioner in that section of the city, and gained a more than ordinary practiec and honorable position among his professional brethren. He left a widow, but no children.

Dr. Seth Miller, of Sing Sing, was born in April, 1766. He came from Lower Salem, and, after prac- tieing several years at New Castle, settled at Sing Sing, before 1790, being the first physician to locate in the latter village. Mrs. John Miller, who, in 1858, was eighty-six years old, stated that Dr. Miller had attended her husband when he was suffering from the yellow fever. It was the first case of the disease known in Sing Sing, and did not spread, Mr. Miller being the solitary victim. He had contracted it during a visit to New York, where it was raging at the time.

Dr. Miller's eldest daughter married Dr. Kissam, of New York, and his second became the wife of Dr. Wallace, of Troy. She was extremely beautiful and highly accomplished, and is said to have been so well versed in medicine that she undertook to continue her husband's practice after his death. Her father is said to have been very skillful and enjoyed the confi- dence of a large circle of friends and patients. His health began to fail several years before his death, and he invited Dr. Jeremiah Drake Fowler to settle at Sing Sing and participate in and eventually suc- ceed to his practice. He died November 23, 1808, in the forty-second year of his age, and was interred in the ecmetery at Sparta, below Sing Sing.

Dr. Archibald Macdonald, of White Plains, was one of the most distinguished of the early physicians of the county and prominent among the founders of the Medical Society. He was a native of Inverness, Scotland, and came of the Glengarry branch of the Macdonalds. His father, in 1745, joined the forces of Charles Edward, the last of the Stuart pretenders who endeavored to regain by arms the British throne, and perished in battle when his son was but a few weeks old, so that the parent and his youngest child never saw each other. The embryotie physician was brought to this country about 1757, when he was twelve years old, by his brother, a British officer serving in Can- ada. He received his medical education in Philadel- phia, at the charge of this brother, who may be supposed to have procured him the position which he subsequently held of surgcon in the King's army. After practicing in North Carolina, in 1787 he mar- ried in Dutchess County, N. Y., and in 1795 removed to White Plains, where he practiced until his death,

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December 21, 1813, in his sixty-ninth year. The genealogy of the family indicates that one of his ancestors married a daughter of Robert Bruce. Per- sonally very popular, his practice was large and his professional reputation so high that he was often called long distances for consultations.

His son, James Macdonald, studied medicine with Dr. David Palmer, of White Plains, and Dr. David Hosack, of New York. As an investigator of insan- ity, in the treatment of which he became an expert, he visited the principal lunacy asylums of Europe; and, on his return to this country, was one of the founders and proprietors of the Sanford Hall Asylum, at Flushing, L. I. He died in 1849, leaving his brother, Allen Macdonald, in charge of that institu- tion.

Dr. Stephen Fowler, a native of Orange County, N. Y., practiced in New Castle, Westchester County, eight years previous to his death, which occurred in 1814, when he was but thirty-five years of age. De- spite his youth, he was quite successful, and accumu- lated in that short time a moderate fortune. He died from typhoid pneumonia, which was then epidemic in the neighborhood. Dr. Joshua W. Bowron was one of his students, and upon his death located in the immediate vicinity of his office.

Dr. Donal, of Colaburg (now Croton), on the Hud- son, was a young man who began practice in 1814, during the prevalence of typhoid pneumonia, and won much praise for his successful treatment of the dis- ease by the stimulating plan. He removed to New York and died there.

Dr. Clark Sanford resided at Greenwich, Conn., but for thirty years prior to his death, in 1820, when lie was over sixty years old, had a wide professional con- nection in Westchester County. He was a native of Vermont, and the manufacturer of a superior article of pulverized Peruvian bark. His grinding-mills were at Byrom's Mills, now called Glenville; they were the first establishment of the kind in the United States, and his son John continued and en- larged the business with great profit. He is spoken of as " a bold practitioner of both inedicine and surg- ery." He was a very eccentric man and an inveter- ate smoker, always carrying his pipe between his lips or in his boot leg. He could never endure the smell of ipecacuanha, which produced in him an asthmatic affection. He educated to the profession his son Jo- sephus, who settled in the South and died there. An- other son, Henry, became an apothecary in New York City.

Dr. William H. Sackett, born at Greenwich, Conn., in 1781, made his home at Bedford, Westchester County, about 1805, and married a daughter of Col. Jesse Holly some three years later. A man of splen- did general culture, and a keen student of the new lights then being thrown upon the science of medi- cine by Cullen, Brown, Darwin and Rush, he was es- teemed the most accomplished physician in the

county. He had graduated at Yale and pursued his medical studies under Dr. Perry, at Ridgefield, Conn. Prompt in response to calls, he rode the country over on a fast gray mare which is still associated with his memory. To his excessively arduous labor is attrib- uted his premature death, for he passed away Decem- ber 29, 1820, in the thirty-ninth year of his age. He was the preceptor of Dr. Joseph Baily aud Dr. Mead, of Tarrytown.

Dr. Ebenezer White, son of Rev. Ebenezer White, of Southampton, L. I., was born in the lower section of Westchester County, in 1744, located in Yorktown before the Revolution and was so ardent a patriot that the British made several attempts to capture him. Once a squadron of horse were sent to Crom- pond with orders to surround his house and take him prisoner, so that he might be exchanged for a British surgeon whom the Americans held. A friendly warning enabled him to escape, but they seized Dr. James Brewer, who resided in the neigh- borhood, and in a skirmish with a party of Americans who fired upon them as they were passing along Stoney Street, Dr. Brewer was mortally wounded. He expired the next morning, November 20, 1780, in the arms of Dr. White. He was a native of Massa- chusetts, but thirty-nine years old, and the husband of Hannah Brewer, by whom he had four sons and three daughters. Dr. James Brewer, of Peekskill, was his grandson. Dr. White was prominent in poli- tics and the church. He was once elected to the New York State Senate, and died March 8, 1825, aged eighty-one.

Dr. Henry White, son of Dr. Ebenezer White, was born at Yorktown, August 31, 1781, and studied med- icine under the tuition of his father. In 1802 he at- tended the medical lectures at Columbia College. In 1803 he was in partnership with Dr. Joshua Secor, in New York City, but in the same year returned to the place of his nativity. In 1804 he practiced at Hack- ensack, but once more came back to Yorktown in the same year. The Westchester County Medical So- ciety, in 1809, elected him delegate to the State So- ciety for four years. He was for several years surro- gate of the county, and in 1823 became one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas. He continued the general practice of medicine until about 1840, af- ter which he accepted no calls except as consulting physician. He died in November, 1857.

Dr. Elisha Belcher was born iu Lebanon, Conn., in 1757, and became surgeon's mate and surgeon in the Revolutionary army. Stationed at Greenwich, Conn., he made that place his residence after peace had been declared, and extended his practice across the State line into Westchester County. He educated many young men in the profession, including his sons Dr. William N. Belcher, of Sing Sing, and Dr. Elisha R. Belcher, of New York City. Four of his seven daughters married physicians-the fourth becoming the wife of Dr. Stephen Fowler, of North Castle, and

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History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I, Part 147

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898, ed Publication date: 1886 Publisher: Philadelphia : L.E. Preston & Co. Number of Pages: 1354

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898, ed
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.E. Preston & Co.
Number of Pages: 1354