Landmarks of Tompkins County, New York : including a history of Cornell University, Part 8

Author: Hewett, Waterman Thomas, 1846-1921; Selkreg, John H
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1194

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LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.

Benjamin G. Ferris was a college graduate, and soon after finishing his education he entered the office of David Woodcock. Admitted to the bar in due time, he soon took an enviable position in his profession and rapidly advanced to the front rank. He served in the Legislature in 1851, was district attorney of this county (1840-45), and in 1853 was appointed secretary of Utah Territory by President Fillmore. A short time in that uncongenial position sufficed for him, and he returned to Ithaca and resumed practice, spending a few intervening years in New York city. He died in Ithaca in 1893.

Alfred Wells studied law in the office of Humphrey & Woodcock, and after his admission to the bar soon became prominent in the pro- fession. This is indicated by his early selection in 1844 as first judge of the county, in which office he served four years. He was elected to the XXXVIth Congress (1859-61) and was recognized as an able legis- lator. Returning to his profession, he was afterwards appointed assessor of internal revenue, and occupied that station at the time of his death.

Douglass Boardman during the greater part of his professional life occupied a foremost position at the bar and in the judiciary. His abilities as a lawyer were recognized soon after he was admitted, and he was early called to judicial labor. Elected first judge of this county in 1851, he served as such four years, relinquishing for that position the office of district attorney, to which he was chosen in 1847. Return- ing to his practice in 1855 he pursued it with diligence and eminent success for ten years, when the general knowledge of his fitness to adorn the bench led to his selection for Supreme Court judge in 1865. At the close of his first term of eight years he was renominated and elected without a competitor for a term of fourteen years. Soon after- wards, and on the death of Hon. John M. Parker, Judge Boardman was appointed to the vacancy thus made on the General Term bench of the Sixth District. His death occurred at his summer residence at Sheldrake in 1892.

William H. Bogart was a lawyer by profession and spent many years in Ithaca. He was a man of fine natural qualifications; was elected to the State Legislature in 1840 and served one term; he also served as clerk of the House and the Senate. He was a graceful writer and an eloquent speaker. Later in his life he removed to Aurora, where he enjoyed an elegant leisure in a beautiful and hospitable home.

EARLY MEMBERS OF THE BAR.

Milo Goodrich was for a number of years prominent in the bar of the county, located at Dryden. He was a native of Cortland county, studied in Worcester, Mass., and was admitted in 1840, soon after which he settled in Dryden. He was elected to the XLIId Congress, was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1867, and held other positions of honor. As a lawyer he was skillful, and gave the most unremitting care to preparation of his cases. About the year 1870 he removed to Auburn, N. Y., where he died.

Merritt King was a son of one of the pioneers of the town of Danby, where his grandfather settled as early as 1800. By self-sacrificing efforts he obtained a liberal education; served honorably in the One Hundred and Thirty-seventy Regiment N. Y. V. for three years, and held the rank of major when mustered out. He studied in Ithaca, and took a regular course at the Albany Law School, graduating with honor. He served twice as district attorney (1867 and 1870), and in the fall of 1875 received the nomination for member of Assembly, but was defeated by the university vote.

Stephen B. Cushing is remembered as one of the most promising and brilliant advocates at the bar of Tompkins county from 1837 to 1855. Almost from the beginning of his practice he stepped to the front rank as a jury lawyer; was elected to the Legislature in 1852, and was a prominent candidate for speaker on the Democratic side. Turning much of his attention to politics, he was nominated in 1855 for attorney- general of the State, on the American ticket, was elected, and entered upon the duties of the office January 1, 1856. On retiring from that position he formed a partnership with Daniel E. Sickles, of New York city, and continued a successful practice. He died there suddenly in 1865.

Charles Clarence Van Kirk, born in Ithaca, November 4, 1855, died August 1, 1892. He was educated in the Ithaca Academy and after some years passed in Colorado and in lumbering business learned sten- ography, in which he became an expert. During his study he read law in the office of Henry A. Merritt, of Troy. He was admitted to the bar in 1885, and for a time had a large income from reporting and as a referee. On account of weakening sight he returned to Ithaca in 1887 and opened a law office, continuing to practice until his death.

LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.

TOMPKINS COUNTY BAR-1894.

Almy, Bradford, Ithaca.

Jennings, J. H., Ithaca.

Austin, William, Trumansburg.

Leary, Frank M., Ithaca.

Baker, James L., Ithaca.

Lyon, Marcus, Ithaca.

Blood, Charles H., Ithaca.

Monroe, Geo. E., Dryden.

Bouton, D. C., Ithaca.

Mallery, L. D., Dryden.

Burchell, Geo. R., Dryden.

Mead, M M., Ithaca.

Burns, Thomas W., Ithaca.

Milne, John A., Trumansburgh.

Baldwin, M. M., Groton.

Newman, Jared T., Ithaca.

Benton, Frank R., Ithaca.

Noble, William N., Ithaca.

Clock, Fred. L., Ithaca.

Noble, Ossian G., Ithaca.

Davis, George B., Ithaca.

Osborn, Alvah P., Trumansburgh.

Day, Chas. G., Ithaca.

Poole, Murray E., Ithaca.

Dean, D. M., Ithaca.

Rhodes, Dana, Groton.

Dean, Fred. N., Newfield.

Smith, Simeon, Ithaca.

Ellsworth, Perry G., Ithaca.

Smith, W. Hazlitt, Ithaca.

Elston, J. A., Ithaca.

Smith, Clarence L., Ithaca.

Estabrook, W. B., Ithaca.

Smith, Raymond L., Ithaca.

Esty, Clarence H., Ithaca.

Finch, Wm. A., Ithaca.

Sweetland, Monroe M., Ithaca.

Finch, Francis M., Ithaca.

Tibbetts, Frank E., Ithaca.

Fish, Cary B., Ithaca.

Tichenor, James H., Ithaca.

Fredenburg, E. E., Ithaca.

Gifford, Gardner C., Ludlowville.

Goodrich, George E., Dryden.

Halliday, Samuel D., Ithaca.

Hare, William W., Groton.

Van Cleef, Mynderse, Ithaca.

Hopkins, Herman S., Groton.

Van Vleet, D. F., Ithaca.

Horton, Randolph, Newfield.

Whiton, Fred. J., Ithaca.

Hungerford, A. A., Ithaca. Humphrey, William R., Ithaca.

Wolcott, Clarence R., Ithaca.

IMPORTANT TRIALS AND CRIMES .- As a part of the criminal record of Tompkins county, the remarkable career of Edward H. Rulloff should not be omitted. He was born near the city of St. Johns, in the Prov- ince of New Brunswick, and was hanged at Binghamton, Broome county, on the 18th of May, 1871. His father's name was William Rulloffson, the son taking the name of Rulloff upon removing to this locality. Financial circumstances denied him a professional career, and he became a clerk in a store in St. Johns. His employers were twice burned out and Rulloff left his clerkship to begin the study of law. For a theft in the store of those he formerly served he was ar- rested, tried and convicted, and served a sentence of two years in State prison. At the close of his sentence he disappeared from St. Johns,

Tichenor, Edwin C., Ithaca.

Tompkins, M. N., Ithaca.

Turner, Samuel B., Ithaca. Terry, Eugene, Ithaca.

Stoddard, Giles M., Groton.

IMPORTANT TRIALS AND CRIMES.

and nothing is known of his career until he appeared in Dryden in May, 1842. He claimed to be in search of employment, even as a laborer, if nothing better offered. His acquirements attracted great attention, and he secured a position as a drug clerk in Ithaca. He soon acquired an intimate knowledge of drugs and their effects, and then left the business. He next opened a select school in Dryden, and among his pupils was Miss Harriet Schutt, a most amiable and lovely girl of seventeen years. Rulloff paid her marked attention, and in opposition to the wishes of her parents, he married her on the 31st of December, 1843. Almost immediately afterwards Rulloff, entirely without cause, developed an insane jealousy and treated his wife with positive cruelty, in one instance striking her with an iron pestle and felling her to the floor. He removed to Lansing, where a daughter was born in April, 1845, and for a period Rulloff treated his wife with more kindness. He acquired quite a library, began the study of medicine, and was called to treat a child of William H. Schutt that was suffering with some slight ailment; but the babe dicd in convulsions and the child's mother also died with symptoms of poisoning two days after. The body of Mrs. Schutt was exhumed in 1858 and distinct traces of copper found in the stomach.

The evening of the 23d of June was the last time Rulloff's wife and child were seen alive. The next morning Rulloff borrowed a horse and wagon of Thomas Robertson, who lived opposite, placed a heavy chest in the wagon and drove away towards Cayuga Lake. On the following morning he returned, the chest then being quite light, took it into the house, filled it with books and clothing, and removed it in the following night. Then Rulloff disappeared, but was tracked to Cleveland, Ohio, by Ephraim Schutt, brother of Mrs. Rulloff, who arrested the criminal and returned with him to Ithaca. Large sums were expended in dragging Cayuga Lake for remains of the wife and child, but without success. The bodies not being found, Rulloff was indicted for abduct- ing his wife, was tried in January, 1846, found guilty and sentenced to prison for ten years. At the close of his term he was indicted for the murder of his daughter. He secured a removal of his case to Tioga county, where he was tried on the 18th of October, 1856, found guilty and sentenced to be hung. From this verdict an appeal was taken to the General Term, which was heard in April, 1857. An appeal was then taken to the Court of Appeals,

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Jacob S. Jarvis was the jailor in charge of Rulloff, and allowed his son, Albert, to have lengthened visits to Rulloff's cell, where the latter instructed him in the languages and other studies. On the 5th of May, 1857, through the connivance of the son, the prisoner escaped, the son fleeing with him. The Court of Appeals soon afterward reversed the decision of the courts below, and Rulloff surrendered to the sheriff to await his final discharge.

A meeting of citizens was held and organized for the purpose of breaking into the jail and lynching the prisoner on the 19th of March, 1859. The sheriff learned of the plot and removed. Rulloff to Auburn the previous day. He was afterwards surrendered to the authorities of Pennsylvania to be tried for burglaries committed in Warren, in that State. He escaped conviction there, and for a time disappeared from view of all acquaintances.

On the 20th of November, 1861, he was sentenced to prison for two years and six months under the name of James H. Kerron, at Pough- keepsie. Rulloff at all times seems to have been in communication with Jarvis, who assisted his escape from Tompkins county jail in 1857, and a man named Dexter, and in all probability pursued a life of crime, which ended in breaking into the store of D. M. & E. G. Halbert, in Binghamton, on the 17th of August, 1870. Two clerks slept in this store, and one of them, Frederick A. Mirrick, was killed by Rulloff. An alarm being given, the burglars fled. Dexter and Jarvis were drowned while attempting to cross the Chenango River, but Rulloff escaped for a few days, when he was arrested and imprisoned. His trial began on the 5th of January, 1871, and continued seven days, when the jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree. Rulloff was sentenced to be hanged on the 3d of March. A stay was granted, but the murderer was executed in the city of his last crime on the 18th of May, 1871.

This case was so remarkable in all its features as to attract universal attention, and the American Journal of Insanity of April, 1872, devoted fifty pages to a review of the life of Rulloff.

A legal case of great interest came before the people in early years in this county which grew out of the feeling which existed, especially in the town of Caroline, between those who brought into that town a few slaves and those who did not keep them and never had. Between the years 1805 and 1808 a considerable and very respectable colony of Southerners came into Caroline and brought with them in all some

Morten Clay.

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forty slaves; their neighbors were from the East and were, of course, bitterly opposed to slavery. The feeling thus engendered and fostercd finally culminated in the indictment and and trial of Robert Hyde for removing slaves from this State in violation of the statute. The law for the gradual abolition of slavery in New York prohibited the re- moval of a slave from the State for the purpose of sale. About the 1st of December, 1823, Hyde and his mother-in-law, the widow Julia Speed, had gone to their former home in Virginia for a visit and had taken with them a negro girl, Liza, a slave, whom it was believed they intended to sell. Hyde had not complied with the law in getting the consent of a magistrate to take the slave away temporarily, and when he returned without her he had not proven that his failure to bring her back was from any unavoidable cause. In the following summer when Hyde came back without the negro girl, curiosity and inquiry were general and suspicion was aroused. The entire community believed the girl had been sold, and Hyde's premises and those of the other slave owners were watched for months day and night to prevent a repe- tition of the proceeding. At the Oyer and Terminer of January, 1825, Abiathar Rounsvell appeared before the grand jury as complainant against Hyde in the matter. Amasa Dana was district attorney, and Hon. Nicoll Halsey foreman of the grand jury. An indictment against Hyde was found and he was first tried at the Court of Sessions in the following May. Ben Johnson, the Nestor of the Tompkins county bar, was counsel for Hyde. The prosecution depended largely upon the testimony of widow Speed; she sat near the door of the court room and just before she was called as a witness she slipped out of the room and disappeared. This was an unexpected piece of strategy, but as the case could not then be put over, John G. Speed was sworn (he was Hyde's brother-in-law), and under direction of the judges the jury found the defendant not guilty of the fifth count of the indictment and did not pass upon the remaining counts, of which there were six in all. Hyde's second trial took place in the following December before Samuel Nelson, when several witnesses were sworn, but Hyde was acquitted. Mr. Hyde lived till between 1850 and 1860 and bore the reputation of being a good citizen and a kind man. The animosities connected with this affair continued to some extent until a second generation, but have now wholly disappeared.

Since the organization of Tompkins county there have been three executions for murder, the first public, and the other two in the jail

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yard. In the fall of 1831 Guy C. Clark, a shoemaker, brutally mur- dered his wife with an axe, in a part of the old Columbia inn, then occupying ground on the corner of State and Cayuga streets and part of the Clinton Hall block on the north. Clark was tried, convicted and hung in public at Fall Creek, almost upon the precise spot occupied by the large brick school house, but upon an elevated bluff since brought down to a level. The day of the execution, February 2, 1832, was a stormy one, melting snow covering the ground. A band of music headed the procession which conducted Clark to his fate. Many thou- sand spectators were present, some arriving on the previous day, and a few who were unable to find accommodations camped out over night or found shelter in barns or outhouses. Peter Hager 2d was sheriff and Minos McGowan, under-sheriff. The body of Clark was buried, but it is doubtful whether the grave was very carefully guarded, as the body was stolen on the night following the execution.

On the 13th of July, 1841, a shoemaker named John Jones was mur- dered by John Graham, a fellow-workman, in a ravine just north of Buttermilk Falls, about two miles southwest of Ithaca. The remains of Jones were discovered, Graham was arrested, Jones's watch found upon his person, and money which evidence showed was taken from the body of the murdered man. Although the evidence was wholly circumstantial, it was so conclusive that Graham was convicted and executed in the yard of the old court house, on ground now occupied by the county jail, on May 5, 1842. Edward L. Porter was sheriff, and William Byington, under-sheriff.

In 1871 an aged man named John Lunger and his wife occupied an old boat drawn up on the shore of the lake a few rods south of Good- win's Point, nearly eight miles from Ithaca. Michael Ferguson, a nephew, lived with them, and a young girl was employed by them. Ferguson killed Lunger and his wife, took the girl in a row boat, crossed the lake, came to Ithaca and started on foot to escape into Pennsylvania. The murder was discovered, Ferguson pursued, cap- tured, tried, sentenced, and hung June 17, 1871. He was dull of in- tellect and possibly never fully realized the enormity of the crime he committed. Horace L. Root was sheriff, and R. H. Fish, under- sheriff.

COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

CHAPTER XI.

Early Methods of Medical Study-Medical Societies Authorized by Statute --- Tompkins County Medical Society -- The Homoeopathic Medical Society-Dr. E. J. Morgan, sr .- The " Registration Law"-List of Registered Physicians.

THE pioneers to any locality have always been closely followed by "the good physician." This is one of the unpleasant necessities of human experience. In the first years of the present century the State of New York, unlike Pennsylvania and the New England States, had done very little to encourage science, and there was no school of med- icine worthy of the name nearer than Boston or Philadelphia. Few young men could then afford to go so far to qualify themselves for a profession, whatever inducements its future offered. This led to the prevailing custom among young aspirants for medical practice to enter the office of a neighboring physician, study his books for two or three years, at the same time accompanying his tutor in professional visits. At the end of such a term the young doctor felt qualified to begin his professional career.

Laws then governing the admission and practice of physicians were practically worthless, but in 1806 the Legislature passed an act repeal- ing former laws applying to the profession, and authorizing a general State Medical Society and County Societies. Under this act a society was organized in Onondaga county in 1806, and others closely followed in the counties from which Tompkins county was organized.

The first records of Tompkins County Medical Society have been lost, but it is known that an organization was effected in the year 1818, the year following the organization of the county. As far as can be known, the following physicians were the original members: A. J. Miller, O. C. Comstock, A. C. Hayt, Dyer Foote, Alexander McG. Comstock, P. A. Williams, Daniel L. Mead, Augustus Crary, J. Young, Jason Atwater, Charles Emmons, John W. Phillips, George W. Phil- lips, and Daniel Johnson. But there were, of course, physicians in the county who had practiced among the earlier settlers many years before the organization of this society; and some of them had, ap-

LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.

parently, either died or removed from the locality before 1818. Among those early physicians may be mentioned Dr. Lewis Beers, who was one of the early settlers of Danby in 1797; Dr. Dyer Foote, who was practicing in Ithaca at a very early date; Jason Atwater, who was practicing in Hector in early years, and others whose names will be found in later histories of the town and county.

The medical society continued its existence, with varying degrees of success, until the year 1844, when for some reason its regular meetings ceased. During that period the following physicians joined the society in the years following their names. The towns in which they practiced are also given as far as possible:

John C. Hayt, Ithaca 1818

A. J. Miller

1818

Dyer Foote,

1818

Daniel L. Mead 1818

Augustus Crary, Groton 1818

C. P. Hearmans, Ithaca 1818

James Ashley,

1832

R. W. Meddaugh, “ 1832

Lyman Eldridge, “ 1831

Henry Ingersoll

1821

Edw. H. Eldridge, “

1835

N. S. Jarvis, 1824

1823

David McAllister, 1823

David G. Jessup, 1824

B. B. Armitage,

1828

M. C. Kellogg,

Jason Atwater, Hector 1818

J. Young, Hector (and Ithaca) 1818

Edmund Brown, Hector 1825

Horace Smith, 1838

Wm. Woodward, 1838

Henry Fish, 1824

Alexander McG. Comstock, Hector, 1818 Nathan Scovell, Hector 1828

Myron A. Smith, 1840

Nelson Nivison, 1837

M. D. Hause, 1839

Moses Tompkins, 1827

Wm. Georgia,

1833

Justus Lewis, Hector (and Trumans-

burgh) 1833

John Collins, Hector 1828

Jno. W. Thompson, “ 1838

O. C. Comstock, jr., Ulysses 1828

J. H. Jerome, Ulysses. 1838

P. A. Williams, " (and Enfield). ._ 1818

1830

Abraham Miller, 1832

H. K. Webster, 1833 1

D. R. Towner, 1831 1 1

W. S. Pelton, 1833

Joel E. Hawley,

1 1 I 1829

William Bacon,

1835

Henry Sayles,

1835

John Stevens, 1

1835

Charles Coryell,

1842

L. Sutherland, 1842

H. Ingersoll, jr, 1841

James A. Hovey, 1841

J. C. Hall, Enfield (and Ithaca) 1831

Joshua S. Miller, Enfield 1833

J. P. A. Williams, 1821

(and New-

A. C. Sherwood, field) 1841

Lewis Beers, Danby 1823

Frederick Beers, “ 1832

Ashbel Patterson, Danby 1824

Albert Curtiss, 1824

Eli Beers, 1828

Joseph Speed, Caroline 1825

David L. Mead, “ 1818

Horace Bacon, 1821

Geo. W. Phillips, 1821

David McAllister,

V. Cuyler, 1824

Chas. M. Turner, Newfield 1825

1832

Samuel P. Bishop,

Eugene Baker

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Abraham Chase, Ulysses 1831

H. Harris, Dryden 1828

Lewis Halsey,

1822

John Page, 1828

O. C. Comstock, " (and Enfield). 1818 E. G. Bush, 66

1832

D. K. McLallen,

1833

Isaac S. Briggs, “ 1841

Samuel E. Clark, 1829

Jas. W. Montgomery, Dryden 1828

Eleazur Crane, Groton 1822

Hiram Moe, Lansing 1827

John W. Phillips, Dryden 1820

Chauncy P. Farlin, “ 1840

John F. Burdick, Lansing (and Ith-

aca) 1829

Besides the foregoing list, the following physicians practiced in the county and were members of the society during the short periods re- spectively named :

Ira Wright, 1821 to 1840.

Oliver Barker, 1830 to 1843.

Charles Edmunds, 1821, died in 1828.

E. W. Cram, 1832 to 1843.

Salmon Frisbee, 1821 to 1828.

William Holmes, 1833 to 1834.

Daniel Johnson, 1821 to 1830.

Mordecai Morton, 1835 to 1842.

James Deland, 1824.

A. E. Phelps, 1834 to 1835.

D. W. Roberts, 1824 to 1828.

Myron A. Smith, 1840 to 1842.

Henry S. Rinkham, 1823 to 1828.

Myron Baldwin, 1837 to 1838.

D. Barber, 1828, removed in 1835.

Norman Gaston, 1842 to 1844.

Austin Church, 1829 to 1835.

D. Lacy, 1842 to 1844.

George E. Powers, 1829 to 1832.

After a long period of inactivity, the society was reorganized in Oc- tober, 1862, and the following officers chosen: President, Edward H. Eldridge; vice-president, Henry B. Chase; secretary, S. P. Sackett ; treasurer, S. Rhoades.

List of Presidents of the Tompkins Medical Society: 1862-3, Edward H. Eldridge; 1864, John M. Farrington; 1865, Richard Laning; 1866, C. C. Cook; 1867, T. S. Briggs; 1868, S. H, Peck; 1869, S. P. Sackett; 1870-1, Henry B. Chase. A reorganization with changes in the con- stitution was effected in 1871, and in December of that year Dr. Moe, of Groton, was elected president; J. D. Lewis, of Trumansburg, vice- president; S. P. Sackett, of Ithaca, secretary; M. M. Brown, of Ithaca, treasurer; and S. H. Peck, librarian. President for 1872-3, William R. Fitch; 1874, George Rightmire; 1875, A. J. White; 1876-7, A. D. Simonds; 1878-9, J. M. Farrington; 1880, E. J. Rothwell; 1881, J. Winslow; 1882, J. R. Gregory; 1883, J. M. Farrington; 1884-6, S. H. Peck; 1887, Judson Beach; 1888, W. C. Gallagher; 1889, John Win- slow; 1890, Eugene Baker; 1891-3, John Winslow; 1894, C. P. Biggs.

The regular members of this society in 1894 are Drs. E. Baker, C. P. Biggs, E. H. Kyle, E. Meaney, S. H. Peck, S. P. Sackett, J. Winslow,

Richard Lanning, 1828

Michael Phillips,

1820

Edwin P. Healy, 1841

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B. G. Wilder, E. H. Hitchcock, W. C. Gallagher, J. Beach, J. E. Burr, J. P. Fahey, J. M. Potter, W. H. Lockerby. Honorary members: Drs. James Law, S. H. Gage, Mrs. Gage.

Officers for 1894: President, C. P. Biggs; vice-president, E. Baker; secretary, J. M. Potter; treasurer and librarian, E. Meaney. Censors, E. Baker, S. H. Peck, S. P. Sackett, W. C. Gallagher, J. M. Potter. Delegate to Státe society, B. G. Wilder.

THE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY. 1

This society, composed of physicians of the homœopathic school, was organized on the 9th of September, 1880, at the office of Dr. E. J. Morgan in Ithaca. Preliminary to the organization the following physicians met at the same office on the 11th of August in that year: E. J. Morgan, sr., E. J. Morgan, jr., D. White, A. Bishop, N. R. Foster, G. E. Orton, Rufus Tallmadge, J. W. Brown, J. S. Kirkendall, S. J. Parker, and A. M. Baldwin. Besides these persons, Drs. D. C. Barr, William Barr and L. W. Carpenter responded to the call for the meeting, but were unable to attend. Dr. White was made chairman of the meeting, the objects of which were stated "to. unite as many physicians as possible in forming a society which should eventually become legalized by receiving a charter from the State Homœopathic Society." The following officers were then nominated and elected: President, E. J. Morgan, sr. ; vice-president, D. White; secretary, A. M. Baldwin; treasurer, J. S. Kirkendall. A committee on constitution and by-laws was appointed, composed of the following: Drs. E. J. Morgan, jr., S. J. Parker, G. E. Orton. This meeting was adjourned to meet again at the parlors of the Clinton House on the 9th of Sep- tember. On this date the constitution and by-laws which had been

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Landmarks of Tompkins County, New York : including a history of Cornell University, Part 8

Author: Hewett, Waterman Thomas, 1846-1921; Selkreg, John H Publication date: 1894 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason Number of Pages: 1194

Author: Hewett, Waterman Thomas, 1846-1921; Selkreg, John H
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1194