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ROSCOE CONKLING.
FRANCIS KERNAN.
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His were not the methods that seek a following through familiarity or a sacrifice of dignity. His recognized genius commanded confidence and admiration without resort to the acts of smaller-minded politicians, and he disdained victories that could be won only at the sacrifice of dignity and relf-respect. There was an imperialism about his nature which forbade him to parley. He compelled obedience and swept to his purpose with an impetuosity that brooked no restraint. A man was either for him or against him, and it apparently made little difference which; but there was no middle ground. To his friends he was ever generous and loyal; to his en- emy he was either indifferent or implacable. More than any other man he possessed the quality of leadership.
Wheeler Barnes was a native of Massachusetts, but when he settled in Rome came from Vermont, which was about the year 1806; he was at that time admitted to practice. In 1815 he was elected supervisor of the town, and re-elected in 1816; in the latter year he was elected to the Assembly on the Federal ticket. In 1822 he ran again for Assem- bly, but that was the first year after the new Constitution had gone into effect, which was instrumental in defeating the Federal party. Mr. Barnes had a considerable law practice for those days, and was partner for a time with William Curtis Noyes. He was trustee of Rome village from 1822 to 1825 inclusive, and was active in party politics many years. During the last thirty years of his life he was lame from a fall from a horse. He died in Rome in July, 1858.
Francis Kernan, son of Gen. William Kernan, a native of Ireland, was born in Schuyler county, N Y., January 14, 1816. After receiving a partial college education he studied law in Watkins, N. Y., and in 1839 settled in Utica and finished his studies with Joshua Spencer and was admitted to practice in 1840. These two became partners and from that time until 1857 Mr. Kernan enjoyed a large and successful practice. In 1854 he was appointed reporter of the Court of Appeals, which office he held for three years. A Democrat in politics, he early entered the field and soon became a leader. In 1860 he was elected to the Assem- bly in a strong Republican district. and in 1862 was elected to Congress, in the mean time supporting the government in its war measures to the utmost of his ability. Renominated in 1864, he was defeated by Roscoe Conkling and thereupon returned to the active pursuit of his profession. In 1867 he was chosen a delegate-at-large to the Constitutional Con - vention. In 1872 he was honored with the nomination for governor of this State. In 1875 he was elected State senator. In all of these
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offices Mr. Kernan showed high qualities as a legislator, while in his professional career he attained distinction as an excellent lawyer in all branches of the practice,
Daniel Elbridge Wager was born in Jefferson county, N. Y., on the 8th day of November, 1823, and was therefore in his seventy-third year. He received his early education in the common schools and was gradu- ated from the Jefferson County Institute at Watertown, then under con- trol and in charge of Rev. James R. Boyd as principal. Later on he read law in the office of Joshua Moore, district attorney of Jefferson county. In the spring of 1848 he went to Utica and entered the law office of William and Charles Tracey. In September of the same year, on invitation of the late Hon. Calvert Comstock, then district attorney of Oneida county, Mr. Wager became law clerk and student in the office of Comstock & Beach in Rome. He remained with this noted firm of lawyers till 1850, when he was admitted to the bar. Soon after- wards he became a partner of Lawyer H. T. Utley, then of Rome, now of Waterville, who was subsequently elected district attorney of this county. In 1852 Mr. Wager was elected special county judge on the Democratic ticket. In 1854 he was employed by Calvert and Elon Comstock to assist in editing the Rome Sentinel. In 1855 he became one of the proprietors of the Sentinel, the late De Witt C. Rowley be- ing his partner, the style of the firm being Wager & Rowley. In 1857 Mr. Wager was appointed by President James Buchanan to be post- master of Rome, and he held the office four years. In 1860 Wood & Larwell purchased the Sentinel and Mr. Wager resumed the practice of law.
During the civil war Congress, as one method of raising revenue, im- posed a tax on the property of deceased persons. An office was estab- lished here. To manage this required a person well acquainted with the intestate law of the State. Mr. Wager being excellently qualified in this respect, received the appointment. The government realized a large revenue from this branch of the service.
In 1872 the late Alexander H. Bailey of Rome was elected Oneida county judge, and Mr. Wager entered the office of Beach & Bailey and became a partner in the business. After the death of Judge Bailey, Mr. Wager formed a copartnership with the late Hon. B. J. Beach, which continued till Mr. Beach's death. In 1880 Mr. Wager was elected
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special county judge for the second time. He was for some time a trustee of the Rome Savings Bank.
He was a well equipped lawyer, a man of many excellent qualities and a keen and critical observer of men and events. He was strong in his likes and dislikes and was, when occasion required, blunt and out- spoken in his speech, quite as free to criticise a man in his presence as in his absence. He had a never-ending fund of good nature and always enjoyed a good joke or a story well told. He had a rare appreciation of the humorous side of things and could be keenly sarcastic when oc- casio, seemed to him to require it. This strong trait in his character he retained to the end, and during his last sickness often amused those about him with his remarks Although sometimes caustic in his obser- vations the arrows that he launched were not tipped with venom; he was ever ready to do a kind turn for those who approached him. He was very affable and courteous in his bearing-a gentleman of the old school -- and the younger members of the bar will bear witness that there were no kinder or more considerate lawyer or one who was more ready to assist them than Daniel E. Wager. He rarely appeared be- fore a jury, but there was in this city no more able office lawyer than he, none who prepared a case more carefully or more methodically. He was particularly successful in matters pertaining to titles of real estate and to the settlement of estates.
Aside from his ability as a lawyer, Mr. Wager won a wide and an enviable reputation as a local historian. No man was better acquainted with the history of Rome and Oneida county than he. He had a love for delving into history and wonderful patience in ferreting out histor- ical points and separating facts from fiction. At the time of his death he had nearly completed his work on this publication.
Mr. Wager was one of the officers of the Oneida Historical Society and frequently attended the meetings of the organization. By request of the society he at various times prepared and read papers before the members.
Although he did not seek to make himself prominent in municipal affairs, Mr. Wager took a lively interest in all that pertained to the wel- fare of the city and was always found on the side of progress and im- provement. He was a good citizen. His death took place in April 1 896.
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In 1854 Mr. Wager married Miss Helen M. Abell, a daughter of the late Lynden Abell of Rome. Mrs. Wager and one son, Fred L., of Rome, survive.
Following is a list of the present bar of Oneida county :
Boonville.
Rome.
White, Charles W. Wheeler, Wm. H.
Ballon, Walter.
Baker, John S.
Bentley, H. W.
Backus, Oswald P.
Blasier, R. O.
Backus, Lincoln J.
Capron, B. A.
ยท Bedell, Harvey S. Bliss, William B.
Taberg.
Hadley, H. R.
Briggs, R. C. Carmichael, Charles
Snyder, Silas L.
Pease, Jay A.
Cornish, George R.
Sippell, William D.
Curtin, Timothy, Jr.
Sperry, C. R.
Dunning, Charles H.
Davis, Geo. T.
Adams, Charles D.
Camden.
Evans, I. J.
Adams, Seth C.
Fitzgerald, P. H.
Gubbins, James P.
Aylesworth, H. M.
Johnson, Russel S.
Ilager, Albert R.
Bagg, Grove W.
Morss, George F.
Klock, George S.
Bagg, Chas. M.
Skinner, George J.
Kneeland, A. Delos
Baker, R. C.
Woodruff, Arthur C.
McMahon, John I).
Ball, Emmett J.
Woodruff, E. C.
Olney, James P.
Ball, W. D.
Pavey, E. Marshall
Barrows, Samuel J.
Clinton.
Prescott, Cyrus D.
Beardsley, Arthur M.
Porter, Joseph
Beardsley, Samuel A.
Carruth, Charles R.
Powers, M. H.
Benedict, Joseph
Cummings, J. W.
Rowland, Eugene A.
Bevines, Daniel E.
Martin, Louis M.
Sayles, A. F.
Bielby, Isaac P.
Mills Andrew W.
Soyles, Joseph I.
Biddlecome, W. D.
Reynolds, Fred L.
Scripture, William E.
Boyle, John W.
Shields, W. J.
Schwarz, John S.
Bulger, Patrick F.
Williams, Elliott S.
Searle, D. F.
Brayton, M. Jesse
Stevens, Edward L.
Brandigee, John E.
Holland Patent.
Stevens, Stoddard M.
Collins, John D.
Spinning, S. E.
Collins, Henry C. Cookinham, Henry J.
Dunlop, H. W. Williams, William J. B.
Wager, Daniel E.
Coxe, Alfred C.
Wager, Fred L.
Carter, George C.
Remsen.
Weaver, G. H.
Comstock, William H.
Wilson, John F.
Coupe, Henry F.
Pritchard, G. E.
Wilson, H. S.
Coupe, James
Utica.
Davis, John C.
Fowler, Homer T.
Adams George W.
Griffith, R. M.
Avery, Theodore
Hayes, A. L.
Worden, E. O.
Wiggins, Howard C.
Wilson, Merritt N.
Fiske, L. W.
Titus, Chas. T. Jr.
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Lewis, Edward Lindsley, Smith M.
Lynch, J. DeP.
Shumway, Charles
Southworth, L. N. Steber, Benjamin
Lee, E. D.
Mathews, Edward D.
Mathews, E. W.
Matteson, William A.
Martin, R, R.
Townsend, P. B. Tripp, Isaac Van Auken, Myron W.
Dennison, George E.
McIncrow, Richard W.
Watts, James W.
Duross, James E.
McIntosh, Andrew J.
Wager, E. J.
Fincke, Fred. G.
McIntosh, Ichabod C.
Watkins, Thomas D.
Ferris, T. H. French, James G. Gaffney, John F.
Gates, H. L.
Morehouse, Richard H.
White, H. Lawrence
White, N. Curtis
Wells, Edward H.
Wilkinson, Albert T.
Vernon.
Judson, S. S.
Verona.
Davis, E. W.
Waterville
Coggeshall, Henry J. Edwards, L. D. Fuess, Louis P. Monroe, C. W. Utley, Henry T. Wickwire, Charles M. Weller, W. H.
New York MMills.
Mackie, William S. Douglass, William A.
Cross, Theodore L. Calder, F. M. Darling, Richard W.
Doolittle, Charles A. Doolittle, William S. Doolittle, Henry A. Doolittle, Julius T. A. Dunmore, Watson T. Davis, Henry A.
DeAngelis,' P. C. J. Dennison, Charles M.
Mann, James F.
McGraw, M. V. B.
Waterman, Daniel
Weaver, George M. White, W. Pierrepont.
Goodwin, Alex T. Griffith, John D. Giblin, F. T.
O'Connor, Jas. K. O'Connor, Edward S.
Patten, Harry S.
Gibson, John G. Goodier, Lewis E.
Perry, Josiah Philo, Geo. E.
Grant, J. H.
Pitcher, Herbert D. Quin, William P. Reilly, James P.
Risley, Edwin H. Robinson, Milton E.
Root, Lynott B. Rayhill, James W.
Harter, William E. Hastings, E. B. Harvey, W. K. Hazard, Frederick H. Howell, Herbert A. Hurlburt, Edward Irish, C. G. Jones, Thos. O. Jones, Robert (). Jones, C. Lansing Kernan, Nicholas E.
Kernan, William Kernan, John D. Kernan, W. J. Kernan, Walter N. Kernan, Leslie W. Kinney, Thomas E. Kinney, W. J. Lewis, William E.
Rogers, J. Frank Rogers, John F. Rudd, Joseph Shumway, Charles Swan, Joseph R. Snyder, Charles C. Seavey, William E. Stoddard, David C. Searle, Charles H. Sherman, James S. Seward, Alexander Spriggs, Fred. B. Stearns, Eugene Stone, John D. F.
Sexton, Michael H. Sholes, H. C.
Goodier, Wadsworth L. Humphrey, G. H.
Miller, Chas. A.
Morehouse, George C.
Talcott, Charles A. Thomas, Rees E. Townsend, William
Love, Henry M, Lovelace, F. L.
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CHAPTER XXIII.
MEDICAL SOCIETIES AND PROFESSION OF ONEIDA COUNTY.
The organization of the first medical society in Oneida county fol- lowed closely upon the passage of the law of February, 1806, author- izing the formation of such bodies throughout the State. A meeting of the physicians of Oneida county was called at Rome July 1, 1806, to which twenty nine responded, and then and there the Oneida County Medical Society was organized, with the following officers : Amos G. Hull, president ; Sewal Hopkins, vice president ; David Has- brouck, secretary ; Seth Hastings, treasurer ; Caleb Sampson, delegate to the State Society ; Francis Guiteau, Matthew Brown, Welcome Sayles, Elnathan Judd, and Sherman Bartholomew, censors. The an- niversary was fixed for the first Tuesday in July, and Seth Hastings, Sewal Hopkins, and Caleb Sampson were appointed to prepare by-laws for the society.
The first meeting was held in Rome July 1, and adjourned to meet at Whitesboro the 2d of September, 1806. The committee on by-laws were not ready to report and were continued to the annual meeting in July, 1807. On that occasion the by-laws were adopted and a com- mittee appointed to prepare a fee bill consisting of the following : Drs. Hopkins, Sampson, Wolcott, Sayles, Capron, Francis and Luther Gui- teau. Their fee bill was adopted at a meeting held in Utica January 12, 1808, The meeting held July 30, 1810, closed the first period of the society's existence. Seven meetings had thus far been held and ten new members admitted.
At a meeting called July 6, 1813, the profession was well repre- sented and the society was reorganized. From this date onward meet- ings were held with commendable regularity, and measures for the ele- vation and improvement of members and the greater efficiency of the society as a whole were gradually adopted. These included the imposi- tion of fines for non-attendance (first collected in 1814), and for failure
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to read dissertations when appointed, introduced in 1819; revision of the by-laws in 1822, and again in 1828; introduction of resolutions by Dr. C. B. Coventry in 1834 asking the Legislature for a special act for building an asylum for the insane poor of the State, which led to the founding of what is now the Utica State Hospital. In 1846 an effort was made to increase the usefulness of the society by dividing it into sections so as to provide two dissertations at each meeting. In the fol- lowing year a new measure was proposed for the holding of quarterly meetings, but the plan failed for a time. From this time down to 1853-4 the society began to decline and at one period seemed doomed to extinction ; but the State law of 1853 giving the society the same number of delegates to the State society as there were of members of the Legislature in the territory represented. and a new and more effi- cient method of collecting dues and fines gave the organization new life and prosperity.
On the 8th of July, 1856, the semi centennial of the society was ap- propriately celebrated in Utica. At that time only two of the founders were left. Continued prosperity now attended the society, and in 1864 the fees for medical services were increased 100 per cent. At the annual meeting of 1868 the subject of holding quarterly meetings was again brought up and a resolution offered to hold them on the second Tuesdays of January, April, July and October. In the following year this resolution became a law of the society. At the annual meeting of July 13, 1869, a committee reported that thereafter "applicants be required to file in the county clerk's office their diplomas before pre- senting themselves for membership." At the quarterly meeting of Oc- tober, 1871, the society took up the subject recommended by the American Medical Association and resolved to use its influence to have half free scholarships in the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons. At the semi annual meeting of 1872 delegates to the American Med- ical Association were instructed to vote for the admission of women properly qualified in the profession, to membership. Resolutions were offered and discussed at the semi-annual meeting in January, 1873, ask- ing for an amendment to the code of medical ethics, so as to allow medical men to meet all practitioners who had been educated in schools
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recognized by the laws of the State. The resolution was laid on the table, and again met the same fate in April of that year.
During the last quarter of a century or more this society has enjoyed a vigorous existence and encouraging growth and has been of incalcu - lable benefit to both the profession and the community. A great num- ber of papers have been read before its members upon a broad range of medical topics having a direct and important bearing upon the well- being of the public ; measures have been introduced and promoted tending to the better sanitary condition of the people and their surround- ings, and the high character of the membership of the society has been maintained at all times. Fitting eulogies have been prepared of most of the deceased members, many of which have been published in various places.
Following are the names of the physicians who attended the first meeting July 1, 1806:
Amos G. Hull, Sewal Hopkins, David Hasbrouck, Seth Hastings, jr., Caleb Samp- son, Francis Guiteau, Matthew Brown, jr., Welcome Sayles, Elnathan Judd, Sher- man Bartholomew, Marcus Hitchcock, Isaac Weston, Thomas Hartwell, Laurens Hull, Zenas Hutchinson, Alexander Whaley, Morris Shannon, Paul Hutchinson, jr., Eliphaz Bissell, Seth Capron, Daniel Avery, John Fitch, Enoch Alden, Stephen Preston, Arba Blair, Thomas G. Hooker, Nathan Porter, Seth Hastings, Samuel Frisbee.
Following is a list of the presidents and secretaries of the society from its organization to the present time :
1806, Matthew Brown, David Hasbrouck; 1807, Amos G. Hull, David Hasbrouck ; 1808-9, Francis Guiteau, David Hasbrouck; 1810-14, Sewal Hopkins, Seth Hastings, jr. ; 1815-16, Elnathan Judd, Charles Babcock ; 1817, Amos G. Hull, Charles Babcock ; 1818, Amos G. Hull, Thomas Goodsell, jr. ; 1819, Thomas Goodsell, Ezra Williams; 1820-21, Amos G. Hull, Seth S. Peck; 1822-24, Alexander Coventry, Seth S. Peck ; 1825-26, Luther Guiteau, Seth S. Peck; 1827, Alexander Coventry, Seth S. Peck ; 1828-29, Seth Hastings, jr., Seth S. Peck; 1830, Jolin McCall, Seth S. Peck; 1831, Laurens Hull, John Gridley; 1832, Laurens Hull, J. P. Batchelder; 1833, Laurens Hull, Thomas M. Foote; 1834, Charles Babcock, Thomas M. Foote; 1835, J. P. Batchelder, Thomas M. Foote; 1836, A. Blair, Daniel Thomas; 1837, T. Pomroy, Daniel Thomas: 1838, U. H. Kellogg, Daniel Thomas; 1839, J. F. Trowbridge, Daniel Thomas; 1840, P. B. Peckham, Daniel Thomas; 1841-42, C. B. Coventry, Daniel Thomas; 1843, Luther Guiteau, Daniel Thomas; 1844, Medina Preston, John McCall; 1845, F. M. Barrows, John McCall; 1846, G. H. Pope, D. G. Thomas; 1847, J. Knight, D. G. Thomas; 1848, P. M. llastings, D. G. Thomas; 1849, M. M. Bagg, D. G. Thomas; 1850, D. G. Thomas, John McCall, C. S .; 1851, F. M. Barrows, M.
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M. Bagg; 1852, D. P. Bissell, M. M. Bagg; 1853, J. H. Champion, M. M. Bagg; 1854, S. G. Wolcott. M. M. Bagg; 1855, J. V. Cobb, J. E. West ; 1856, N. H. Dering, J. E. West; 1857, J. S. Whaley, J. E. West ; 1858, J. M. Sturdevant, W. B. Coventry, C. S .; 1859, A. Blair, J. E. West; 1860, W. Smith, J. E. West; 1861, D. Larrabee, William Russell; 1862, C. L. Hogeboom, William Russell; 1863, L. Guiteau, William Russell; 1864, C. B. Coventry, William Russell; 1865, W. Booth, William Russell; 1866, D. G. Thomas, William Russell; 1867, L. Guiteau, William Russell; 1868, A. Churchill, William Russell; 1869, Thomas M. Flandrau, Edwin Hutchinson; 1870, H. N. Porter, Edwin Hutchinson ; 1871, William Russell, Edwin Hutchinson ; 1872, Robert Frazier, Walter Kempster; 1873, Walter Griswold, P. H. Thomas; 1874, John P. Gray, P. H. Thomas; 1875, H. G. Dubois, P. H. Thomas; 1876, L. A. Tour- tellot, P. H. Thomas; 1877, Norton Wolcott, Charles P. Russell, 1878, Edwin Hutch- inson, J. Hunt; 1879, G. W. Cleveland, S. Baker; 1880, J. E. West, George Sey- mour; 1881, Edwin Evans, George Seymour ; 1882, Jacob Hunt, T. Flandrau; 1883, A. R. Simmons, George Seymour ; 1884, J. K. Chamberlayne, George Seymour ; 1885, Smith Baker, George Seymour; 1886, W. E. Ford, H. Palmer; 1887, L. Swarthout, A. R. Simmons; 1888, Claude Wilson, J. H. Glass; 1889, J. H. Glass, J. G. Kil- bourne ; 1890, G. Alder Blumer, J. G. Kilbourne ; 1891, A. W. Marsh, J. G. Kilbourne; 1892, William M. Gibson, J. G. Kilbourne; 1893, George Seymour, J. G. Kilbourne ; 1894, Hamilton S. Quin, David Eynon ; 1895, Charles E. Smith, David Eynon ; 1896, D. C. Dye, David Eynon.
Space can be spared here for the brief biographic sketches of only a very few of the earlier physicians of the old school in this county, whose arduous and unselfish labors in pioneer medical work should be appre- ciated and remembered with gratitude. To these are added in the sub- sequent histories of the towns such mention as has been found accessi- ble relating to other early physicians in the several localities :
Dr. Alexander Coventry was born in Scotland August 27, 1766, and attended mndical lectures in Glasgow and Edinburgh. In July, 1785, he sailed for America and first settled in Hudson, N.Y. Thence he re- moved to Romulus, N. Y., and in 1796 located at Old Fort Schuyler. For a short time he was a merchant tailor with John Post, but soon opened a physician's office. About 1804 Dr. David Hasbrouck was his partner, but Dr. Coventry purchased a farm in Deerfield and there pur- sued farming and fruit growing with ardor. From that time forward this occupation divided his time with professional duties. In 1817 he became a partner with Dr. John McCall. The latter removed to Utica from Deerfield the next year and had immediate charge of their office. As a family physician and obstetrician Dr. Coventry was dis- tinguished throughout a large section. He was several times elected
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president of the County Medical Society, and twice president of the State society. He died December 9, 1831.
Dr. Francis Guiteau, descended from a French Huguenot, settled in Deerfield and began practice in 1792, occupying a farm east of the Cor- ners. In July, 1803, he formed a partnership with Dr. Samuel Wol- cott, and each built a house on Whitesboro street, Utica. The partner- ship continued to 1807, after which Dr. Guiteau practiced alone. He was skillful and highly esteemed. He died about the year 1823. Dr. Luther Guiteau, of Trenton, was brother of Francis.
Dr. David Hasbrouck was a native of Ulster county, N. Y., and at- tended medical lectures in New York. He settled in Utica in 1804, and formed a partnership with Dr. Coventry, combining the sale of drugs with his practice, which was confined mainly to a few of the lead- ing families. He was the first secretary of the County Medical Society, and about 1815 removed to Kingston ; but he died in Schenectady in October, 1813.
One of the earliest and best remembered surgeons of this county was Dr. Amos G. Hull. He was practicing in New Hartford as early as 1798, and in 1810 made the announcement that he had opened a place for the sale of mineral waters in Utica next to the Coffee House. He also manufactured and sold hernial trusses in large numbers after 1817. He was the first president of the Medical Society, was an influential Methodist and a good citizen. He removed to New York not long after 1821.
Dr. Thomas Goodsell settled in Whitesboro in 1810 and began prac- tice with Dr. Seth Capron, who was already established there. Dr. Goodsell was a native of Connecticut, born in June, 1775, studied near his birthplace, practiced some years in Woodbridge, Conn., and from there went to Philadelphia where he attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania and was licensed in 1809. Not long after his settle- ment in Whitesboro he removed to Utica and soon acquired a large business. He was thoroughly educated in his profession and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Yale and was a permanent mem- ber of the State Medical Society. He lived until his eighty-ninth year and died January 11, 1864
A long resident and a very successful physician of Utica was Dr.
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John McCall, who was born in Hebron, N.Y., December 25, 1787 He was thoroughly educated in Columbia College and with private medical instructors, one of whom was the noted Dr. Valentine Mott, upon whose recommendation Dr. McCall secured a position in the army in 1812, being assigned to the 13th Regiment. He was at the battle of Queens- ton and later, after receiving the rank of surgeon, was at the capture of Fort George. In the summer of 1815 he left the army and took up practice at Deerfield. After 1818 he was a partner with Dr. Alexander Coventry and with Dr. Charles B. Coventry, son of Alexander. In later years he practiced alone until his death October 5, 1867. Very conservative in practice Dr. McCall relied much upon careful nursing of patients and the recuperative efforts of nature. He had a very large business and was honored with various professional stations in societies and otherwise.
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