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for the labor of the physician, but for the intelligent co-operation of the people ; the physician cannot do it alone. If anything really great is to be done in the way of sanitary improvement, and of preventing dis- ease and death, it must be done largely by the people themselves. This implies that they must be instructed in sanitary matters. They must be taught what unsanitary conditions favor the origin of disease, how dis- ease is spread, and the means of its prevention. It is true that that knowledge is of the greatest value to us which teaches the means of self- preservation, then the importance of a widespread knowledge of how to prevent disease and premature death cannot be overestimated.
While it is never within the province of the duties of the historian to call attention to defective conditions, the writer of this chapter never- theless feels impelled to refer incidentally to the marked unsanitary condition of the county seat of Yates County. Penn Yan is no longer the cross-roads hamlet ; on the contrary it has had a municipal organiza- tion and character for a period of nearly sixty years, and in all this time there has not been made on the part of the local authorities any move- ment that has resulted in establishing approved sanitary regulations or improvements within the village. The great, the pressing, need is a complete and thorough system of trunk sewerage through the principal streets, with branches through a number of the lateral thoroughfares. This should be followed by a system of water supply, and abundance of pure and wholesome water being easily obtainable from the depts of Lake Keuka, and many and various are the methods to be suggested by which the supply could be forced through the street mains. Penn Yan as a hamlet and thereafter incorporated village is all of three-quarters of a century old. The general character of the earth throughout the village, and particularly west of Jacob's Brook, is sandy gravel ; there- fore exceedingly porous and readily absorbent of all deposits of liquid, filth, and sewage matter. And it is a fact that the whole earth in the vicinity named is scarcely less than a cesspool.
But the great difficulty in the way of securing these sanitary improve- ments has been in the prejudice existing in the minds of ultra-conserv- ative residents against incurring any bonded indebtedness on the part of the corporation. This spirit is in a measure commendable, but at the same time it is open to criticism. "Show me a municipality," says
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a recent able writer, " that has no bonded indebtedness and I will show you a city that is at least fifty years behind the times." It is not the moderate indebtedness that injures the cities, but the indiscriminate and ill-advised bonding, forced upon the corporation by ruthless and incompetent public servants. This is a subject that should be discussed in every place of business, every household, and on every corner until the local authorities move in the matter. So long as there is no visita- tion of epidemic disease, malarious or otherwise, so long are the people safe enough, but should such come the distruction to human life would be fearful beyond estimate. Therefore it behooves the people and the authorities to look well to their condition from a sanitary point of view, and discover whether or not something should be done at once to cor- rect existing evils and possibly preventing premature disease and death.
But, to return from this degression, it may be asked, What can be said of the medical profession and its representatives in Yates County ? Like some other of the pioneer elements of the county the early medical prac- titioners recorded but little of their own history, and whatever is to be now learned of them comes only by chance, and it is with great difficulty that even the names of the first medical men are recalled. However run- ning throughout this volume will be found the names of physicians, early and late ; and in a department of this work in which are personal sketches will be found a record of the professional lives of many of the practitioners in the county.
THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF YATES.
. On the 4th of March, 1823, agreeable to a notice previously given, there assembled at the Yates Hotel, kept by Miles Benham, at Penn Yan, a number of the more prominent physicians of the county. The purpose of this gathering was the formation of a medical association for Yates County. Dr. Uri Judd was called to the chair and Dr. Will- iam Cornwell, jr., was appointed secretary. The meeting proceeded to vote for the officers of the society, with the following result : Presi- dent, Dr. Joshua Lee ; vice-president, Dr. Uri Judd ; secretary, John Hatmaker ; treasurer, Dr. Andrew F. Oliver ; censors, Drs. Anthony Gage, Andrew F. Oliver, John L. Cleveland, Ira Bryant, and Archi-
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bald Burnett. The physicians present at this meeting were Drs. Uri Judd, William Cornwell, jr., Anthony Gage, Andrew F. Oliver, Ira Bryant, John Hatmaker, Archibald Burnett, Isaac S. Kidder, John L. Cleveland, Elisha Doubleday, jr., and Ezekiel B. Pulling. The first regular anniversary meeting was held in the Yates Hotel in the village of Penn Yan on June 3, 1823. On this occasion an appropriate address. was delivered by the president, Dr. Joshua Lee, at which time the phy- sicians whose names have already been mentioned produced their licenses and became full members of the society. A code of by-laws was at the same time adopted and the corporate name given was " Yates Medical Society." At this time medical societies fully organ- ized were clothed with what would now appear to be unusual and ex- traordinary powers. The Yates Society, like others of the same char- acter throughout the counties of the State, held the power to examine candidates for admission to practice medicine and surgery, and admitted them not only to membership in the society, but as well licensing them as practicing physicians.
At this early meeting among other things the society adopted a form of license which read as follows :
" The President and Members of the Yates Medical Society.
" To whom these presents may come, send greeting :
" WHEREAS, Dr. Blank, on examination by the Censors of said Society, according to the form of the statute in such cases made and provided, hath been approved rela- tive to his knowledge in the theory and practice of physic and surgery, I do therefore license him to practice physic and surgery within this State, and do also recommend him to the notice of the faculty and attention of the public.
" In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and have caused the seal of said Society to be affixed at blank, this blank day of blank, in the year of our Lord one. thousand eight hundred and blank.
" BLANK, President."
The by-laws of the Yates Medical Society provided for the posses- sion of a common seal, upon which was an inscription bearing the so- ciety's name and the impression of a skeleton. It was also provided that the officers annually chosen to preside over and administer the af- fairs of the society should be a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and five censors.
Now, for the purpose of bringing to the attention of the reader the names of as many as possible of the older physicians of Yates County, it is proper that there be inserted at this time a list of those who be-
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came members of the society and signed its constitution and by-laws, thereby accepting their provisions, although it may be possible that some of the names here given were not among the original members as shown by the old minute-book of the society. The membership was as follows: Joshua Lee, John Hatmaker, Andrew F. Oliver, John L. Cleveland, Samuel B. Bradley, Isaac S. Kidder, Ezekiel B. Pulling, Archibald Burnett, William Cornwell, jr., Elisha Doubleday, jr., Ira Bryant, Calvin Fargo, Moses Chapman, Walter Wolcott, Jarvis Darling, Isaac Beers, Uri Judd, Jeremiah B. Andrews, Anthony Gage, James Heermans, John Warner, W. W. Tyler, R. Randall, Henry Sprague, Caleb A. Lamb, Enos Barnes, David S. Wicks, Nathan S. Kidder, Isaac Chissom, Lewis Aiken Bardwell, Hosea Cohner, Richard Huson, and Nelson Peck.
At a meeting of the society held June 23, 1828, the by-laws were amended, but did not materially differ from those originally adopted, and to the later articles are signed the names of others of the older physicians of the county and of some who are still in active practice. They were as follows: Forest Harkness, Odenathus Hill, Daniel H. Whitney, Benjamin Nichols, William D. Cook, B. N. Wisner, Abijah E. Perry, Francis M, Porter, Oliver P. Wolcott, Winans Bush, Sidney B. Willey, W. S. Purdy, P. T. Caton, Henry Smith, H. P. Sartwell, Joel Dorman, Asahel Clark, William Wixom, William Oliver, F. N. Ham- mond, Guy L. Doubleday, Eben S. Smith, George W. Brundage, J. I. Denman, A. B. Sloane, Byron Spence, A. R. Otis, Robert P. Bush, - John D. Wolcott, Job S. Stevens, G. Z. Dimmock, William H. Crane, J. M. Waddell, C. B. Stone, Charles Woodward, Benjamin L. Holt, R. R. C. Bordwell, B. M. Smith, Cyrus C. Harvey, Byron B. Havens, Amelia C. Christie, Nathan L. Lusk, John M. Maloney, Schuyler Lott, E P. Stuart, B. H. Ovenshire, W. A. Wilson, O. E. Newman, C. M. Van Dyke, E. D. Seaman, Eugene Bardwell, William A. Oliver.
The founder and leading spirit of the old Yates Medical Society was Dr. Andrew F. Oliver, the father of the present William Oliver and grandfather of the present William A. Oliver. Dr. Oliver, the pioneer physician, was born in Londonderry, N. H., in 1792 and became a res- ident and practicing physician of Penn Yan in 1818. In 1827 he was appointed surrogate of Yates County. In 1845 he received from the
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Regents of the University the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine, an unexpected and unsolicited tribute to his professional standing and merits. In 1857 he was elected a permanent member of the State Medical Society. He was president of the local society several terms and on several occasions its delegate to the State Society. He died in Penn Yan on June 11, 1857. Following his death the Yates Medical Society met in Penn Yan and adopted resolutions, one of which was as follows :
" Resolved, That the members of the Yates County Medical Society have received with the deepest regret and sorrow the announcement of the death of their truly la- mented friend and associate, Dr. Andrew F. Oliver. Long and faithfully has he dis- charged the arduous duties of his profession, proving himself a noble benefactor of suffering humanity and an honor to this Society, of which he was one of its most dis- tinguished members."
Dr. Oliver was a practicing physician in Yates County for nearly forty years. Closely associated with Dr. Andrew F. Oliver in the laud- able enterprise of forming the old medical society were Drs. William Cornwell, jr., Joshua Lee, John Hatmaker, John L. Cleveland, and Uri Judd. In fact these physicians were not only present at the first meet- ing, but they were instrumental in bringing about the permanent organ- ization of the society and in promoting its after prosperity. From the time of the formation of the Yates Medical Society in 1823 down to the year 1880, a period of fifty-seven years, the organization of the society was kept active and never suffered to lapse or expire from want of in- terest on the part of its members, although there do appear to be years in which no records were preserved. The records disclose the mem bership of the society as it stood in 1870 as follows: Officers: Walter Wolcott, president ; Alexander B. Sloane, vice- president ; Guy L. Doub- leday, secretary and treasurer ; censors, Fletcher M. Hammond, Will- iam Wixom, Eben S. Smith, Guy L. Doubleday, Alexander B. Sloane ; delegate to State Medical Society, William Oliver; members, John - Hatmaker, Walter Wolcott, Israel Chissom, Winans Bush, William Wixom, William Oliver, F. M. Hammond, Guy L. Doubleday, Eben S. Smith, George W. Brundage, J. I. Denman, Alexander B. Sloane, Byron Spence, Ashbel R. Otis, Robert P. Bush, John D. Wolcott, Job S. Stevens, G. Z. Dimmock, Wemple H. Crane, Frank H. Smith.
In 1880, at a meeting held October 26th, there was a practical, or at
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least a partial, re-organization of the society. The names of physicians present on that occasion are nowhere disclosed on the record, but at that time the name was changed from the Yates Medical Society to the "Medical Society of the County of Yates." At this time it was also provided that the officers of the society should consist of a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and three censors, " together with such other officers as a majority of the members present at any annual meeting should determine." It was also provided that the annual meet- ing should be held on the first Tuesday of June of each year in the vil- lage of Penn Yan, at which time the election of officers by ballot to hold for the ensuing year should take place. The semi-annual meeting was provided to be held on the second Tuesday of January of each year in the village of Penn Yan.
Presidents and Secretaries .- 1823, president, Joshua Lee; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1824, president, Andrew F. Oliver ; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1825, president, Andrew F. Oliver; secretary, John Hat- maker. 1826, president, John L. Cleveland; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1827, president, Enos Barnes; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1828, presi- dent, Elisha Doulbeday ; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1829, president, Anthony Gage; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1830, president, John War- ner; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1831, president, Uri Judd ; secretary, John Hatmaker .. 1832, president, John Hatmaker ; secretary, Andrew F. Oliver. 1833, president, Walter Wolcott; secretary, B. N. Wisner. 1834, president, B. N. Wisner; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1835, presi- dent, James Heermans ; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1836, president, Elisha Doubleday ; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1837, president, O. P. Wolcott; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1838, president, Elisha Double- day ; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1839, president, Joshua Lee ; secre- tary, John Hatmaker. 1840, president, Henry P. Sartwell ; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1841, president, Henry Spence ; secretary, John Hat- maker. 1842, president, Winans Bush; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1843, president. Elisha Doubleday ; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1844, president, Elisha Doubleday ; secretay, John Hatmaker. 1845, presi- dent, Walter Wolcott; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1846, president, H. P. Sartwell; secretary, John Hatmaker. There is no record of offi- cers elected between 1846 and 1851. 1851, president, Elisha Double-
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day ; secretary, John Hatmaker. 1852, president, H. P. Sartwell ; sec- retary, William Oliver. 1854, president, Henry Spence; secretary, William Oliver. 1855, president, Andrew F. Oliver ; secretary, Will- iam Oliver. 1856, president, Andrew F. Oliver; secretary, William Oliver. There is no record of officers elected between 1856 and 1868. 1868, president, John Hatmaker ; secretary, Winans Bush. 1869, presi- dent, John Hatmaker; secretary, William Oliver. 1870, president, Walter Wolcott; secretary, Guy L. Doubleday. 1871, president, Walter Wolcott; secretary, John D. Wolcott. 1872, president, A. B. Sloane ; secretary, John D. Wolcott. 1873, president, A. B. Sloane; secretary, John D. Wolcott 1874, president, Eben S. Smith ; secretary, G. W. Brundage. 1875, president, Eben S. Smith; secretary, G. W, Brund- age. 1876, president, William Oliver; secretary, G. W. Brundage. 1877, president, William Oliver; secretary, Charles Woodward. There is no record of officers elected between 1877 and 1885. 1885, presi- dent, B. L Holt ; secretary, C. M. Van Dyke. 1887, president, John M. Maloney; secretary, C. M. Van Dyke. 1888, president, N. L. Lusk; secretary, C. M. Van Dyke. 1889, president, B. L. Holt; secretary, C. C. Harvey. 1890, president, B. L. Holt; secretary, N. L. Lusk. 1891, president, B. L. Holt ; secretary, N. L. Lusk.
Members of the Society in 1891 -B. L. Holt, N. L. Lusk, William Ol- iver, William A. Oliver, J. M. Maloney, C. B. Stone, C. M. Van Dyke, M. E. Babcock, C. C. Harvey, Job S. Stevens, George W. Brundage, W. A. Carson, O. E. Newman, J. M. Waddell, A. R. Otis, S. Lott, B. B. Havens, E. S. Smith, M. E. Babcock, I. E. Ottoway.
On the 29th of May, 1880, the legislature of the State of New York, at the urgent request of the medical profession throughout the State, passed an act for the especial protection of the legitimate profession against quackery. By the provisions of that act it became the imper- ative duty of all practicing physicians to make oath before the county clerk of the county in which they designed to practice, stating date and place of birth, and the authority under which they presumed to prac- tice physic and surgery. This registration was required to be made before October Ist following the passage of the act. And the further provision was made that all persons thereafter becoming physicians should likewise procure their registration before practicing in any
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county of this State. 'This law still stands, but has been only partially complied with, and any persons practicing physic and surgery without having so registered are liable to penalty under the act.
Physicians Registered in the Yates County Clerk's Office .- Cyrus C. Harvey, University of Buffalo; Job S. Stevens, Medical College of Geneva ; Byron H. Ovenshire, Department of Medicine and Surgery at Ann Arbor, Mich .; Benjamin L. Holt, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city ; Amelia A. Christie, Woman's Medical Col- lege of Pennsylvania ; Schuyler Lott, Albany Medical College ; A. R. Otis, Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Pa .; W. A. Wilson, Albany Medical College; William Oliver, Geneva Medical College ; Carlton B. Stone, Detroit Medical College ; W. H. Hawley, Central Medical College of Rochester, N. Y., license from the New York State " Eclectic Medical Society," and by diploma granted by the Genesee Valley District Medical Society; Francis E. Murphy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa .; John C. Mills, Syracuse Medical College; O. E. Newman, Cleveland Medical College; Richard R. C. Bordwell, Buffalo Medical College; Anna L. Truman, New York Free Medical College for Women, New York city ; J. M. Waddell, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York city ; D. M. Smith, Bellevue Hos- pital Medical College, New York city ; H. W. Smith, Western Homœ- opathic College, Cleveland, Ohio; Elisha D. Smith, Homeopathic Medical Societies of the counties of Ontario and Yates ; Nathan L. Lusk, Medical University of Buffalo ; George Z. Noble, Union Homeopathic Medical Academy of the State of New York; William F. Jolley, Ec- lectic Medical College, Pennsylvania ; J. Le Van Bender, University of Buffalo ; William H. Hawley, jr., Eclectic Medical Society of the Thir- teenth Senatorial District, auxiliary to the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York ; John M. Maloney, Georgetown College, George- town, D. C; Mulford Skinner, Castleton Medical College, Vermont, and by license from the Steuben Medical Society of the State of New York ; Alex de Borra, Medical University of Copenhagen, Denmark ; James C. Wightman, American Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio ; William Wixom, Geneva Medical College; George M. Barber, Eclectic Medical In- stitute, Cincinnati, Ohio ; George W. Brundage, Geneva Medical Col- lege ; Alexander B. Sloane, Geneva Medical College ; F. L. H. Willis,
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Homoeopathic Medical College of New York city ; Henry Hill, Medical Department of the University of Vermont, Burlington; William A. Carson, Albany Medical College ; Eben S. Smith, Geneva Medical Col- lege ; John Cole, Medical Department of the University of Buffalo ; Frank B. Seelye, Buffalo Medical College; Henry R. Barnes, Ontario County Medical Society ; Frank H. Smith, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa .; Wemple H. Crane, Board of Censors of the Yates County Medical Society ; Edward P. Stuart, University of the city of New York, Department of Medicine; W. Wallace Barden, Homo- pathic Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa .; Samuel Hart Wright, Geneva Medical College; A. B. Chissom, Medical Society of the county of Yates; Herman W. Perry; Byron B. Havens, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York city ; Henry P. Shove, Hygieo-Therapeutic College, New York city ; Clark Otis, Hahnemann Medical College, Missouri; Carl B. Smith, University of Buffalo; George L. Preston, Eclectic Medical College of New York city ; Lucius W. How, Medical Department of Columbia College of the city of New York; William C. Allen, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa .; Edgar D. Seaman, Medical Department of Columbia College of New York ; Emory A. Eiken, Miami Medical College of Ohio; Byron Clark, Med- ical Department of the University of Maryland and College of Physi- cians, Baltimore ; Ira E. Smith, Schuyler County Medical Society ; Clarence I. Dodge, New York Eclectic Medical College, New York city ; William A. Oliver, Buffalo University of Medicine; Marcus E. Babcock, University of Buffalo; Adelbert de Roy Haines, Eclectic Med- ical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio ; Franklin B. Smith, Hahnemann Med- ical College, Chicago, Ill .; Asbury H. Baker, University of Buffalo ; Eugene O. Bardwell, University of Buffalo; Charles M. Van Dyke, Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio; William F. Coburn, Chicago Homoeopathic Medical College ; E. C. Parke, New York Homeopathic College ; John E. Ottoway, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich .; Manville M. Macdonald, Medical Department of the University of the city of New York; Wade Botsford, College of Physicians and Sur- geons, Baltimore, Md .; Charles O. Payne, Homœopathic Hospital Col- lege, Cleveland, Ohio; Peter H. Reynolds, Syracuse Medical College ; William W. Skinner, University of Buffalo; J. Arden Conley, Eclectic
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Medical College, New York city ; W. C. Freeman, Trinity College, Ontario; Samuel D. Rhodes, College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city ; Louis C. Millspaugh, Medical Department of Univer- sity of the city of New York; Albert Ellison, University of the city of New York ; Edwin J. Morgan, Harvard Medical College of Boston, Mass .; Isaac N. Willard, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York city ; John T. Culhane, Medical Department of Niagara University ; Michael McGovern, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md .; Charles E. Doubleday, Medical School of Syracuse University ; Ells- worth H. Noble, New York Homoeopathic Medical College ; Hiram G. Mace, College of Medicine and Surgery of Michigan University ; Jay H. Wilkin, University of Buffalo; John E. McTaggart, University of Buffalo ; Gideon Carl Fordham, University of Vermont ; Ira R. Ballou, Baltimore Medical College; C. F. Farlin, College of Therapeutics of Massachusetts.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE PRESS OF YATES COUNTY.
T T HE prevalence of the country newspaper is a good sign. Not even the public school is a more sure indicator of the diffusion of general information and the desire for the growth of intelligence. The newspaper-the country newspaper- is an American idea. Nowhere else in the world does every hamlet have its mouthpiece and every vil- lage its instructor and guide. It may be that the country newspaper in America is not all that it should be, but notwithstanding its faults it aids in the development of the national mind and is useful in an hun- dred ways.
Yates County has been no exception to the rule which has given every locality its newsgatherer. Five years before the county's auton- omy was assured the first journal was established. Abraham H. Ben- nett was its proprietor and he called his venture the Penn Yan Herald. A glance over its pages reveals the fact that country newspaper work
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has changed since that day. Now the editor devotes his pages to local news. Then he neglected that department and gave each week a gen- eral résumé of the world's news as far as that was possible. And the cause of that is evident. In 1818 Penn Yan was a village through which the stages ran once or twice a week on their way from Geneva to Bath, and each stage left here a newspaper or two for the wealthier residents. The Herald copied this news matter and disseminated it throughout the county. Now dwellers in every town in the county have the city dailies delivered to them each morning. They do not depend on the weeklies for general news. Thus every year for the past half century the weekly newspaper has had to devote itself more and more to local matters. That has now come to be its almost sole occupation.
In 1820 Bennett changed the name of his journal to the Penn Yan Democrat, and this title it has since retained. In 1835 Alfred Reed was associated with him in its management; in 1847 he assumed entire control. Darius Ogden bought the establishment in 1850 and was its real proprietor for many years afterward, till Eli McConnell purchased it and paid off the liens that existed. Reuben Spicer was editor in 1853 and George D. A. Bridgman in 1857. For many years, from 1865 till 1888, Eli McConnell was proprietor. Then the newspaper became the property of the Democrat Printing Company. Walter B. Sheppard now owns the controlling interest. Through all the vicissitudes of its career the Democrat has supported more or less ably the political party whose name it bears. It has thus an honorable record for consistency and devotion to principle which entitle it to credit, and under its new editor gives promise of greater excellence and wider influence than it has ever before enjoyed.
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