Our county and its people : a descriptive work on Erie County, New York, Volume II, Part 12

Author: White, Truman C
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: [Boston] : Boston History Co.
Number of Pages: 684

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To the senators upon whom the responsibility of the confirmation of Dr. E. C. W. O'Brien rests, the Commercial can say this much : That the nominee is a man of irreproachable habits- temperate, industrious, and a worthy citizen of any community. As a Republican he has ever been staunch, loyal, and unswerving. As a physician he has been thoroughly tested, and that in the very line of duty in which, as health officer of New York, he would be called upon to serve. Dr. O'Brien was health physician of Buffalo during one of the most trying and perilous visitations that this city has ever experienced. It was during the small-pox epidemic of 1873-74, the most alarming epidemic that ever afflicted Buffalo. By applying to the emergency the most stringent

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precautions, the best agencies that science and experience could suggest, by insisting upon im- mediate, positive, and ample measures on the part of the municipality, Dr. O'Brien stamped out small-pox in Buffalo. He met the disease with promptness, intelligence, and courage, and drove it beyond the lines of the city-a service that the people of Buffalo can never forget. Put into the responsible position for which the governor has nominated him, he will bring to the office skill, experience, and a devotion to duty that is sure to find results in a system of quarantine service as intelligent, honest, and rigid as the great port of New York needs and demands. We hope that the Republican senators will confirm this excellent nomination.

Notwithstanding his activity in professional life, Dr. O'Brien has always taken great interest in public affairs, and has been glad to lend himself to any move- ment likely to promote the welfare of Buffalo. Many positions of trust connected with his profession have been held by him; and all of them, as he is glad to remem- ber, came to him without solicitation. For nearly ten years he was surgeon of the 74th Regiment, Buffalo. For several years he was chief medical examiner of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association of the State of New York. He held the post for a long time of physician to St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum at Buffalo. He has been for many years consulting physician to the Providence Asylum for the Insane. He is now surgeon to the Buffalo Fire Department, and consulting surgeon to the Riverside Hospital, Buffalo. He is a member of the American Medical Association ; of the Erie County Medical Society, of which he has been president; and of the Buffalo Academy of Medicine. He has been president of the Alumni Association of the University of Buffalo, and is one of the curators of that institution. He has had wide experience in the examination of the insane, and for many years has frequent- ly been appointed by the courts of Buffalo as an expert on the question of insanity, and has been called to other cities in that capacity. Personal Chronology .- Edward Charles White O'Brien was born at the city of Quebec, Canada, February 4, 1843; moved to Buffalo in 1859; graduated from the medical department of the University of Buffalo in 1867; was health physician of Buffalo, 1872-77; married Monterey Allis of New York city October 8, 1879; has practiced medicine in Buffalo since 1867.

Bacon, John E., M. D., Buffalo .- Of the younger members of the medical profes- sion of Buffalo, Dr. Bacon is one of the best known and most successful. Dr. Bacon was born at Blossburg, Pa., March 1, 1869. He was graduated at Wellsborough High School with the class of 1887 and afterward entered Lafayette College for a special course, and was a student for three years at the University of Pennsylvania, medical department, finishing in 1892. He then came to Buffalo and became per- manently located at No. 79 Niagara Square, for the general practice of his profes- sion, where he has since resided.

Mansperger, William H., M. D., Buffalo, was born at Cleveland, O., February 6, 1866. He attended the Heathcote private school and was a student at Northwestern University for four years. He then began the study of medicine at the University of Buffalo, and was graduated in 1887. He then entered the University of Berlin, and after graduating therefrom, he went to Paris and spent a year in study, and at the end of this time returned to Buffalo and began the practice of his profession, where he has since been engaged in general practice.

Trowbridge, Grosvenor R., M. D., Buffalo, son of Dr. John S. and Abby E. (Hea- cock) Trowbridge, was born in Buffalo. N. Y., September 14, 1863. He acquired a

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liberal education from the public schools of his native city and graduated from Will- iams College with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1884. He then began the study of medicine at the Buffalo Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1887. He then spent a year as house surgeon at the Rochester City Hospital, when he was appointed assistant superintendent of the Danville (Pa.) Insane Asylum, where he remained six years, and then returned to Buffalo and engaged in the general prac- tice of his profession. Dr. Trowbridge is a member of the Erie County Medical Society, the Academy of Medicine and the New York State Medical Association.

Wood, Harry A., M. D., Buffalo, was born in that city, May 28, 1864. He was educated in the public schools and the Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1882, and from the medical department of Michigan University, receiving the de- gree of M. D. in 1886. Dr. Wood also spent several months in the different hos- pitals of Paris, London and Vienna. Returning to Buffalo, he began the practice of his profession, and was connected with the Buffalo State Hospital for three years. He is also attending physician at the Erie County Hospital; the Deaf and Dumb In- stitute of St. Joseph, Main street; and physician in charge of the Providence Re- treat, a licensed institution for the care and treatment of the insane. He is at pres- ent secretary of the Faculty of the Medical Department of Niagara University and professor of materia medica and therapeutics, and insanity in that university.

Dunham, Sydney A., M. D., Buffalo, was born at Warren Center, Bradford county, Pa., September 7, 1859. He attended the district schools until he was nine- teen years of age, when he entered the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute at Towanda, Pa , and was graduated in June, 1883. The following year he began the study of ( medicine at the medical department of Niagara University, and was graduated from that institution in 1888. He then removed to Buffalo and began the practice of his profession with Dr. F. S. Crego, where he remained for three years, when he took up his residence on West Chippewa street, where he has since resided, doing a large and successful business. He was appointed lecturer on physiology in the medical department of Niagara University in 1890, which position he filled until 1896, when he was made adjunct professor of physiology in the same university. He was one of the post mortem examiners for the county of Erie in 1890. He was married, June 26, 1890, to May Edna Hammond, a country girl, daughter of A. G. Hammond, a well-to-do farmer of Corry, Pa. He has two daughters, Sarah Louise and Julia Evelyn. The doctor is a member of the Buffalo Academy of Medicine, Erie County Medical Society, and is medical examiner of the New York Physicians' Mutual Aid Association for Buffalo.

Thornbury, Frank J., M. D .- Of the younger members of the medical profession of Buffalo Dr. Frank J. Thornbury is one of the best known and most successful. Dr. Thornbury was born in Java, N. Y., March 14, 1867, and in his boyhood attended the academy at Arcade, N. Y., and was graduated at the age of seventeen. The following year he entered the Cincinnati University, from the medical department of which he was graduated in 1888 with distinguished honors, receiving the Dawson gold medal for surgical work, and winning by competitive examination the position of resident physician in the Cincinnati Hospital, which place he efficiently filled for two and a half years, acting in the capacity of chief of staff and examiner during

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the last year. In 1840 he made an extended tour of England and Continental Europe, taking post-graduate courses of instruction and making observations in the Universities of Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin and in the principal hospitals of Lon- don and Paris. In 1892 he returned to this country and began his career as physi- cian and surgeon in Buffalo, where he has since remained. Shortly after his location here he was appointed to the chair of Bacteriology in the University of Buffalo, and has also filled the position of post mortem examiner of Erie county for one term, and is an ex-supervising microscopist of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Abattoir 42, U. S. Department of Agriculture. His thorough preparation for his profession has marked his career in Buffalo with great success from the beginning, and he has already attained eminence among the medical fraternity of this county.

Warner, Nathaniel H., Buffalo, was born at Phoenix, N.Y., July 14, 1869, and was educated in the Phoenix Academy. He was employed in various ways until he re- moved to Buffalo in 1887, when he was employed by Josiah Ross in the capacity of bookkeeper, where he remained for nearly three years, when he resigned to accept a position with the firm of Farrar & Trefts. He passed a civil service examination and on May 2, 1890, was employed in the post office department of Buffalo as clerk, and August 9, 1894, was promoted to the position of superintendent of Station C, which position he now holds.

. Clark, Edward, M. D .- Among the native born Buffalonians who have spent their lives in the city. of their birth, one of the most prominent is Dr. Edward Clark, who was born October 28, 1852. He was educated in the public schools and at an early age evinced the desire to study medicine, and accordingly entered the University of Buffalo, from which he was graduated in the class of '80. In 1888 and 1889 he was health physician of the city, and since that time has been in active practice of his profession. He was married, May 1, 1884, to Miss Nellie M. Daniels of Buffalo.

Allen, Thomas G., M. D., Buffalo, was born in that city, November 22, 1858. After receiving a liberal education in the public and high schools of Dunkirk and Buffalo he received an appointment in the Buffalo Grape Sugar Works, where he made a special study of chemistry and mechanical engineering. In 1879 he was ap- pointed assistant superintendent of the Peoria Grape Sugar Works, and later became superintendent and chemist of the Grape Sugar Works at Walkerville, Can. In 1883 he entered the medical department of the State University of Iowa. Here he took a special course on the eye and ear, and during his last year was physician in charge of the hospital ward for women, and also assisted Dr. Hobbs in his eye and ear clinics. He was graduated valedictorian of the class March 3, 1886. In May of the same year Dr. Allen began the practice of medicine in Buffalo, N. Y. He has devoted much of his time to surgery, having successfully performed most of the major operations. Dr. Allen is a member of the Erie County Medical Society, the New York State Medical Association, and the Buffalo Academy of Medicine.

Long, Eli H., M. D., Buffalo, was born in the town of Clarence, Erie county, N. Y., July 24, 1860. In 1879 he began the study of medicine at the University of Buf- falo, from which institution he was graduated in 1882. After taking a post-graduate course at the University of Pennsylvania he began the practice of his profession in Buffalo, where he has since resided. Mr. Long is professor of materia medica in the

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Buffalo College of Pharmacy and in the dental department of the University of Buf- falo; also adjunct professor of materia medica in the medical department. He is a member of the Erie County Medical Society, the Academy of Medicine and the Medical Society of the State of New York.

Satterlee, Richard H., M. D., Buffalo .- After years of preparation for practice of the oculist's art, Dr. Satterlee began a professional career of great usefulness in Buffalo and has attained eminence entirely deserved in this field of medical and sur- gical science. He was born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1861, and is a son of one of the most successful and prominent educators of that city, Leroy Satterlee, A. M., princi- pal of the Rochester Collegiate Institute. Dr. Satterlee was educated at the public schools of his native city and afterward in the university of that place. He began the study of medicine at the medical department of the Buffalo University, from which he was graduated in 1888. In 1894 he visited Europe to supplement his knowl- edge in his art, and pursued his studies and observations in the principal eye hospi- tals in Vienna, Paris and London, where every opportunity was presented and zeal- ously embraced to perfect himself in the science of ophthalmology. Returning from Europe he at once engaged in active practice in Buffalo with his office and residence at No. 187 Delaware avenue. He is consulting oculist for the Buffalo Railway Co., the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railway and the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway.

Pattison, George W., M.D., Buffalo, was born in the town of Boston, Erie county, N. Y., November 13, 1845. He was educated in the district schools, Clarence and Aurora Academies. In 1861 he began the study of medicine at Akron, N. Y., with Dr. L. P. L. Parker, afterward with Dr. Julius F. Miner of Buffalo. He was gradu- ated from the medical department of the University of Buffalo, February 24, 1869. Dr. Pattison was appointed district physician, which office he held for four years and at the end of this time he was appointed to fill an unexpired term as health physi- cian. As a practitioner Dr. Pattison has been wonderfully successful and enjoys a large and growing business.

Hurd, Dr. Arthur W., superintendent of the Buffalo State Hospital, was born at Galesburg, Ill., December 26, 1858, and comes from a line of ancestry largely made up of medical men. After attending the public schools he entered Knox College, where he graduated with honor in 1880, receiving the degree of A. B., and later the degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by his alma mater. He then entered the Rush Medical College at Chicago, and in 1883 he took his medical degree in the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city. During the same year he was ap- pointed on the staff of the Workhouse and Almshouse Hospital on Blackwell's Island, and later as an interne in the surgical division of Bellevue Hospital, New York. After spending some time abroad studying in Vienna and London, he returned to this country and soon after was offered the position of assistant physician of the Buf- falo State Hospital, where he served in this capacity for nine years previous to his appointment as superintendent in 1894. In 1892 Dr. Hurd delivered a course of lec- tures on Insanity in the medical department of the University of Buffalo for Dr. Andrews, who was sick at the time, and on the death of Dr. Andrews, in 1894, Dr. Hurd was made full professor, discharging the duties of the position until quite re-

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cently. Dr. Hurd has been very active in matters pertaining to medical organiza- tions for many years, and he is a member of the Buffalo Academy of Medicine, the Erie County Medical Society, the American Academy of Medicine, the American Medico-Psychological Association, and several other clubs and societies. He has written numerous papers on the subject of Insanity, as well as other topics, which have been read before the various societies of which he is a member. He delivered the opening address of the medical department of the University of Buffalo in 1894, and his paper, an able one, was entitled " The Physician in Literature."

Gilray, Edgar J., M. D., Buffalo, a son of James and Elizabeth (Culp) Gilray, was born at Tapletown, Can., December 13, 1866. In 1887 he entered the Toronto Uni- versity, medical department, finishing his medical education, however, at the Uni- versity of Buffalo, from which he was graduated in the class of '91. In 1894 he was offered a position at the Erie County Hospital as medical superintendent, which he accepted and has since been connected with that institution. He was married in June, 1896, to Miss Jessie Pettit of Buffalo. He is a member of the Erie County Medical Society and the Academy of Medicine. Dr. Gilray has the reputation of being one of the brightest of the rising young members of the profession.

Matthews, George E., Buffalo, whose connection with the Buffalo Express has made his name familiar throughout New York State, was born in Westfield, Chau- tauqua county, N. Y., March 27, 1855, his parents living, however, at that time in Buffalo. He was educated in private schools and at the age of eighteen entered Yale College and in 1877 received the Bachelor of Arts degree. The following year he entered the business department of the Buffalo Express, and for ten years was its business manager. He also served the paper during short vacancies in the regu- lar staff as telegraph editor and city editor and for a number of years performed the duties of literary editor in addition to his service in the office. Upon the death of his father in 1888, he became chief owner of the Express, and since that time has been its editor, and president of the Matthews-Northrop Co. Probably no man con- nected with newspapers in Buffalo has had more experience than Mr. Matthews. He has always been an enterprising and hard-working Republican, coming to the front in every close contest as one of the ablest workers his party has ever known in the county. He is a public spirited citizen whose support is always accorded to worthy enterprises. Mr. Matthews enjoys the respect and regard of all who know him, and his acquaintances are by no means limited. He is a prominent member of the Buffalo, Ellicott, and in fact all the leading clubs of the city and a member of the Newspaper Publishers' Association. He was married, July 12, 1887, to Mary E. Burrows of Buffalo.

Phelps, William C., M. D., Buffalo, was born in Attica, N. Y., August 31, 1844. He obtained his education from the public schools of Le Roy and Middlebury Acad- emy. After leaving school he determined to study medicine and accordingly en- tered the office of Dr. J. D. Hill, Buffalo, N. Y., finishing his professional studies at the University of Buffalo, where he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1866. He at once began and still continues the practice of his profession in Buf- falo, doing a large and successful business. Dr. Phelps has been for the last eighteen years surgeon at the Buffalo General Hospital. He is a member of the h

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Erie County Medical Society, the Academy of Medicine and the State Medical As- sociation; he is connected with the Buffalo Medical College as associate professor and demonstrator of anatomy.

Krauss, William C., M. D., Buffalo, was born in Attica, N. Y., October 15, 1863, and is a son of Andrew and Magdalena Krauss. He entered the Attica Union School in 1870 and was graduated as valedictorian of his class in 1880. He then en- tered Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., in the ensuing autumn, taking a scientific course. He received the Horace K. White prize in veterinary science in 1883 and graduated in 1884, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science and a two years certificate for extra work done in the medical preparatory course. Dr. Krauss then entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York city, and graduated as Doctor in Medicine in 1886, standing second in the honor class. He graduated from the University of Berlin in the summer of 1888, with the degree of M. D., re- ceiving the standing "Magna Cum Laude" at the head of his class. He then en- tered the University of Paris in the autumn of 1888 and visited London medical schools in the spring of 1889. In May, 1889, he returned to his home and soon located at No. 382 Virginia street, and recently at 371 Delaware avenue, Buffalo, N. Y., where he has established a large special practice in nervous and mental dis- eases, besides being interested in the local, State and national medical societies, medical journalism, medical education, and is an active original investigator in his chosen specialty.

Ball, Richard L., Buffalo, son of Richard J. and Elizabeth A. (Siegenthaler) Ball, was born in Buffalo, November 5, 1870, where he was educated in the public schools. In 1887 he began the study of law in the office of William C. Bryant, where he re- mained for three years, finishing his legal studies, however, in the office of Harry D. Williams, and was admitted to the bar in January, 1892. He then entered the office of Sprague, Morey, Sprague & Brownell (afterwards Sprague, Moot, Sprague & Brownell), acting as managing clerk until September 1, 1896, when he entered into partnership with Leo M. Rohr, under the firm name of Ball & Rohr, with offices at No. 800 Ellicott Square.

Bennett, Lewis J., Buffalo, was born in the town of Duanesburg, Schenectady county, N. Y., July 7, 1833. When he was four years old his parents moved to the town of Glen, Montgomery county, N. Y., where he received his education in the public and high schools. At sixteen years of age he began as a clerk in the general grocery store of Chapman & Smith in Fultonville, N. Y .; at eighteen he became a member of the firm of Chapman, Peck & Co. In 1856, at the age of twenty-three, he became a copartner with William R. Chapman and William W. Kline, under the firm of L. J. Bennett & Co., which lasted until 1866, when he sold out his interest to Chapman & Kline and removed to Buffalo, where he has since resided. There he engaged in general contracting, city, State and government work, embracing in part that of building iron bridges. For the past twenty years he has been largely interested in the manufacture of hydraulic cement and has been president of the Buffalo Cement Co., Limited, since its organization. In 1889 he laid out Central Park, a suburb of Buffalo, which took four years of continuous work and cost nearly $300,000 in improvements alone.

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Comstock, George W., Buffalo, was born in New Canaan, Conn., November 22, 1845. He obtained his elementary education at South Norwalk (Conn.) High School, and was graduated in 1862. After leaving school he served a two years' apprentice- ship in the hat factory of his father at South Norwalk. In 1864 he removed to Buffalo and accepted a position with his uncle, M. L. Comstock, and after three years' service was admitted to partnership in the firm of M. L. Comstock & Co. In 1892 he purchased the entire business and has since conducted it alone. Mr. Comstock is well known in business circles and is one of the leading fur manufacturers of the city.

Little, Edward, M. D., Buffalo, was born in county Fermanagh, Ireland, June 10, 1832. In 1853 he came to America and began the study of medicine in western Can- ada. In 1858 he removed to Buffalo and entered the University of Buffalo and was graduated in 1862, receiving the degree of M. D. He was for two years interne in the General Hospital and physician to the Lying-in Hospital; at the end of this service he began the practice of his profession, which he still continues with great success. In 1880 he was appointed one of the post mortem examiners for Erie county.

Gould, Thomas T., Buffalo, was born in the town of Cambria, Niagara county, N. Y., September 18, 1832. His early education was obtained from the public schools of Pekin and Lockport. After leaving school he was engaged in a carriage factory, where he remained for seven years. At the end of this time he entered the service of the United States Express Company and has been with this company for forty years, commencing as a driver and being promoted from time totime until he is now general agent of the company at Buffalo.

Schade, Louis, M. D., Buffalo, was born in the grand duchy of Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Germany, January 28, 1845. He obtained his education in the high schools and universities of Leipzig and Greifswald. In 1865 he began the study of medi- cine, and finished it in the spring of 1870. In July, 1870, when the French-German war began, he was appointed assistant surgeon in the Military Hospital of Coblenz. He was afterward surgeon on the German-American Line steamers. In 1873 he came to America and settled in Buffalo, where he began the practice of his profession. Dr. Schade is a member of the Erie County Medical Society, the Academy of Medicine of Buffalo, and consulting physician to the German Deaconess Home, and was for several years president of the German Y. M. C. A.

Flagg, John Dodds, M. D., Buffalo, was born at Morrisburg, Ont., January 16, 1860. His early educational training was in the public and high schools at his home, after which he attended the Collegiate Institute at St. Catharines, and Victoria Uni- versity at Coburg. After leaving Coburg he began the study of medicine at McGill University, Montreal, where he graduated in 1887, receiving the degree of M. D. C. M. He then went to Edinburgh where he received the L. R. C. P. and L. R. C. S. qualifications, after which he spent some months in London in furthur study. In 1888 he came to Buffalo and began the practice of his profession, doing a general prac- tice. Shortly after coming to Buffalo he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in Niagara University, and in 1892 was appointed professor of physiology in the same university, which position he still holds. His practice is now limited to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.

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Our county and its people : a descriptive work on Erie County, New York, Volume II, Part 12

Author: White, Truman C Publication date: 1898 Publisher: [Boston] : Boston History Co. Number of Pages: 684

Author: White, Truman C
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: [Boston] : Boston History Co.
Number of Pages: 684