Our county and its people : a memorial record of St. Lawrence County, New York, Part 28

Author: Curtis, Gates
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1328

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In 1886, in connection with Mr. Barnhart, he originated the famous milk jar now so widely distributed, and which was later, with the butter color, transferred to the Barnhart Bros. In 1889 he formulated the Sugar of Milk Baking Powder, taking out letters patent on the same in 1890, the exhibition of which at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago made such a favorable impression on the people. The brick structures for many years used by him for store and residence were both planned and built by him. In 1865 he married Miss O. Adelaide Barnhart, of Barnhart's Island, N. Y. While the Thatcher ancestry traces back with unbroken lineage hundreds of years through many generations, taking the first pastor of old South Church, Boston, Mass., the rector of St. George's Church, Salsbury, England, who died in 1640, yet the subject of our sketch builds nowhere but on the untir- ing energy and perseverance of that personality that pertains to self alone. One's own work is the only standard by which we can measure success.

S. W. Close, M. D., was born in Toronto, Canada, May 2, 1857, but came to Stockholm when quite young. He studied medicine at the medical department of the University of the City of New York and graduated in 1885, and in April of that year began the practice of medicine in Potsdam. June 16, 1886, he married Miss Clara A. Smith. of Gouverneur, and in the following December he removed to the latter town. Dr. Close is secretary of the St. Lawrence County Medical Society, a member of the Northern New York Medical Asso- ciation and of the New York State Medical Society. He is also an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

Erasmus D. Brooks was born in Shoreham, Vt., March 6, 1818, a son of Hosea Brooks, a native of Massachusetts, born in Colerain in 1781, and was but a boy when he moved into Vermont. He served in the war of 1812 as assistant surgeon. After the war he resumed the practice of his profession in Vermont, and in 1819 removed to this county and located at Hopkinton, where he remained five years and then moved into the town of Stockholm. Here he spent three and one-half years and then went to Parishville, where he died in 1853. His wife was Phobe Post, a native of Vermont, where she died in 1864. Our subject had the advantage of a good education, and was a student

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of Middlebury College. He first went into business as a clerk in the store of his father at Parishville when he was about sixteen. He re- mained there until 1838, when he settled up the business of the firm, and the next year engaged in business on his own account in the same village. In 1858 he removed to Potsdam, and in 1866 engaged in the dry goods business, where for three years he was a partner with H. M. Story. In 1870 Mr. Brooks erected a fine brick block on the west side of Market street, where he opened a dry goods store alone in the fall of 1870. Here he remained until December 1, 1891, selling the busi- ness to Glover & Orne, who now conduct it. In connection with his mercantile business Mr. Brooks has always taken an active interest in public affairs, and has held many offices of honor and trust. He was elected in 1848 supervisor of Parishville, an office he held three or four years. In 1857 he was elected assemblyman of the Third District of St. Lawrence county in the Legislature. In 1862 he was appointed by President Lincoln to the position of internal revenue collector for the Nineteenth Congressional District, an office he held over thirteen years, resigning to take effect January 1, 1876. Mr. Brooks was for seven or eight years supervisor of the town of Potsdam, and was chair- man of the board part of the time. He has been a trustee of the village, and was one of the building committee of the Normal School. Mr. Brooks married in 1841 Permelia, daughter of Col. Jonah Sandford, of Hopkinton, and they have had six children, but one of whom, Mrs. W. A. Landers, widow, is now living. Mrs. Brooks died October 16, 1 886.

C. B. Hawley, M. D., was born in Millroche, Canada, while the family were temporarily living there, they being St. Lawrence county people. Jesse B., the father, was born in Kings county, but spent most of his life in the town of Madrid, St. Lawrence county. He died at Richville, aged eighty-nine years. His wife, Rebecca L. (Hitch- cock) Hawley, was born in Franklin county. Dr. Hawley was edu- gated at the St. Lawrence University and the Cincinnati College of of Medicine and Surgery, where he graduated in 1871, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in the towns of Russell, Richville and Gouverneur, coming to the latter place in 1888. In the fall of 1890 he was appointed coroner. He is also one

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of the Board of United States Examining Surgeons at Ogdensburg. He married December 27, 1871, Lucy, daughter of Darius and Almira (Hoard) Chapin, of Russell They have two sons, Henry Bartlett, student at St. Lawrence University, and Jessie B. They have also an adopted daughter, Louise Chapin Hawley, daughter of Thomas Sparks, of England.

Andrew H. Allen, one of nine children of Lorenzo D. and Mary (Cummings) Allen, was born at Antwerp, Jefferson county. The ances- try on the father's side were Herkimer county people, the Cummings family having been originally natives of Massachusetts. Andrew H. studied at Ives Seminary, Antwerp, where he graduated in 1877, teaching school for several seasons. He entered Long Island College, where he graduated in 1879. He began the practice of his profession in Spragueville, where he remained two years, when he came to Gou- verneur and located where he has since remained, engaged in practice. He married, in August, 1880, Libbie A., daughter of Charles and Ada (Hungerford) Cheney, of Antwerp. They have four daughters, E. Blanche, Grace M., Maud B. and Bell Allen.

H. S. Stillwell, M.D., was born in Oswegatchie, June 23, 1859. He received a liberal education in the St. Lawrence county schools, includ- ing the Potsdam Academy, after which he entered upon the study of medicine, and graduated from the medical department of the University of New York City in 1887, immediately thereafter commencing the practice of his profession in Ogdensburg, where he has since acquired a large and influential patronage. Dr. Stillwell married, shortly after receiving his degree, Florence E. Witerhead, of Lowell, Mass. He is a member of the County Medical Society, Masons, Odd Fellows and A. O. U. W., of which latter organization he is examining physician. Dr. Stillwell is also health officer for the town of Oswegatchie, and a mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church of this city.

S. Dandurand, M.D., was born in Macon, France, May 5, 1862. He studied at Juliette College, and graduated from Victoria Medical Col- lege, Montreal, in 1888. He first began practice at St. Regis Falls, but came to Gouverneur in July, 1891, where he now enjoys a large practice and owns a leading drug store. Previous to studying medicine

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Dr. Dandurand was for seven years engaged in the drug business. In 1885 he married Elizabeth Rancourt, and they have four children.

S. E. Brown, M. D., was born in Lisbon, February 24, 1856. He received his education in the schools of that vicinity and the Potsdam Normal School, eventually graduating in medicine from the University Medical College, New York City, after which in the spring of 1883 he located in Ogdensburg, and commenced the practice of his profession, in the prosecution of which he has taken a leading position among the representative physicians of this State. He was appointed by the gen- eral government, marine surgeon and United States medical health officer, and for the past five years has been coroner of this county. He is also medical examiner for the Mutual Life Insurance Company. Dr. Brown is also president of the St. Lawrence County Medical Society, a member of Ogdensburg Club, and identified with the numerous other local and State institutions. Dr. Brown married in 1885, Mary C. Bacon, of Brooklyn, a daughter of Lieutenant Commander Bacon of the United States Navy, and they have two daughters.

Dr. Moses E. Smith was born in Morgan, Vt., August 27, 1846, a son of Russell W., of Lyman, N. H., born March 29, 1819, whose father, Nathan, was born June 8, 1793 and died August 25, 1834. His wife was Dorcas S. Parker, who was born June 9, 1800. Their chil- dren were : Russell W., born March 29, 1819; Chilson P., born July 6, 1820, died 1829; Ira B., born October 5, 1821, died 1822 ; Nathan W., born August 18, 1823 ; Zilpha, born November 22, 1825 ; Ethan, born August 28, 1829, died 1830 ; and Samuel C. P., born January 25, 1831. Dorcas S. Smith married second time, Samuel Titus, 1843, and had one child Candice, born February 5, 1841, and died April 24, 1844. Russell W. Smith, father of our subject, went at the age of sixteen to work in the lumber woods in New Hampshire, and later to Vermont. In 1843 he married Susan Chase, a native of Strafford, N. H., born July 19, 1821, a daughter of John Chase, a native of West Newbury, Mass., born July 3, 1790 and died Jauuary 8, 1866. Rus- sell W. Smith and wife resided in Vermont from 1843 to 1853, then came to St. Lawrence county and settled in Hopkinton, where Russell died, December 10, 1880, and his widow resides with her son, M. E. Smith. Their children were as follows: Wilbur, born May 22, 1844;

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Moses E., born August 27, 1846 ; Zorah, born June 26, 1848; Willard R., born June 13, 1850; Ryley, born April 10, 1852, died May II, 1863; Dorcas A., born June 7, 1855, died April 3, 1856; Celon, born January 24, 1858, died September 17, 1861. Moses E. Smith was seven years of age when his parents came to Hopkinton, and at twelve he started in life working on a farm. He received a common school education and in 1875 commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Cook, of Stockholm, graduating from the medical department of the Burling- ton University in 1868. In the same year he came to Colton, and except five years in Heuvelton, has since had a successful practice in that village. March 5, 1879, Dr. Smith married Lorene J. Perkins, daughter of Amos Perkins, of Stockholm. They have had the follow- ing children : Myrtle A., born September 24, 1881 ; Harold M., born October 1, 1888. Dr. Smith is a Republican and has been health commissioner seven years, and is a member of the St. Lawrence Medi- cal Association, having been president and vice-president of the society, and delegate to the State society. He is also a member of the North- ern New York Medical Society.

J. A. Hamelin, was born in Canada, December 4, 1861. He received his preliminary education at Three Rivers, and graduated in medicine from the Victoria College, Montreal in the class of '89. After gradu- ating he came to this county and practiced his profession for a time at Spencer, Mass., but finding a better opening at Ogdensburg he located there, where he has since most successfully practiced. Dr. Hamelin married in 1891, and has one child. He is a member of St. John the Baptist Society, of which he is the physician, and also is prominent in social and benevolent institutions.

T. R. Hossie, M. D., was born at Perth, Canada, December 14, 1859, one of five children of George and Margaret (Brice) Hossie. He was educated at Kingston, Canada, Queen's University, where he graduated in April, 1878. He settled in Gouverneur during the same year, where he has since been engaged in the practiceof his profession. He is one of the stirring men of the town, warmly interested in politics since 1884, and for two years master of Gouverneur Lodge of Masons.

Grant Madill, M. D., was born in Stockton, Cal, July 6, 1864. He received his education in the Ogdensburg Academy and in New York,

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and graduated in medicine from the Bellevue Hospital College in 1886. After serving two years in the Presbyterian Hospital in New York, he in 1888 commenced the practice of medicine in Ogdensburg. Dr. Madill is considered one of the leading surgeons of the State. His ancestors were of Revolutionary stock, and are among the earliest set- tlers of this county.

John W. Benton, M. D., son of Dr. Charles C. Benton, was born in Ox Bow, November 15, 1864. He waseducated in the schools of Ogdensburg, after which he graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsyl- vania class of '86, and immediately thereafter commenced the practice of his profession in Ogdensburg. Dr. Benton is a Mason of high degree, a member of the Democratic and Ogdensburg Clubs, health officer of the city, and an influential member of our leading social and benevolent circles. His father, Charles Carroll Benton, M. D., was also a native of Ox Bow where he practices medicine.

Abram N. Thompson, M.D. (deceased), was born at St. Armond, Canada, February 5, 1828. His father was Abram Thompson, M.D., a native of Edinburg, Scotland, where he was reared and educated graduating from the Medical University of that place in 1812. He came to St. Armond, Canada, when a young man and engaged in the practice of his profession, where he resided a number of years, and here spent his last days. His wife was Nancy Hubbard, a native of Ver- mont, by whom he had three sons and one daughter. Dr. Thompson died in 1860, and his wife in 1866. Abram N. Thompson was reared in the village of St. Armond, Canada, and educated in St. Armond and Bakersfield Academy of Vermont, graduating from the Vermont Medi- cal College at Woodstock in 1851. He then went to Phillipsburg, Canada, and practiced his profession three years. He married, June 4, 1855, Harriet E. Maynard, a native of St. Albans, Vt., daughter of Samuel and Maria (Baker) Maynard, of Bakersfield, Vt. Dr. Thomp- son and wife have had two children, Lizzie C., who died at the age of sixteen years, and Jessie M., who was educated at Compton and Dun- ham Colleges. She married, January 20, 1888, John C. O'Brien, a native of Norfolk, who was born July 9, 1856. He is a son of T. H. O'Brien and Sallie (Adams) O'Brien, of Norfolk. John C. O'Brien was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. Mr.

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O'Brien is a farmer and produce dealer. Mr. O'Brien is an ardent politician, and has always been a Democrat. He is a member of the Norfolk Grange. Mr. O'Brien and wife have had two children : Harold T. and Howard A. In 1855 Dr. Thompson and wife came to Norwood where he remained about six months and then came to Norfolk, where he had a very extensive and successful practice until his death. He was elected a member of the New York State Medical Society in 1873, and also a member of the American Medical Association. In politics he was a Democrat. Mrs. Thompson is a member of the Episcopal Church, which her husband always attended and supported. Dr. Thompson died November 18, 1882, and Mrs. Thompson still resides in Norfolk.

Edwin C. Walch, M.D., C.M., was born in Lowe, Canada, October 20, 1842, a son of Capt. Robert Thomas Walch, a native of Ireland, who came to this country in 1817. Our subject was educated in the common schools, and at fifteen years of age he entered Huntington Academy, and at twenty years of age entered McGill University at Montreal, where for three years he was in the art faculty. In 1863 he began the study of medicine in the above university and graduated May 6, 1867. He remained in Montreal about six months, and Sep- tember 12 of the same year located in the town of Madrid, where within five years he had built up a lucrative practice. Dr. Walch is a member of the St. Lawrence County Medical Association, and is a director of the Madrid Woolen Mills, in which he has been interested since 1882, having been for ten years the manager. He is a member of the Con- gregational Church, of which he is one of the trustees. Dr. Walch married, January 7, 1874, Maggie, daughter of William Wears, of Massena, and they have one daughter, Bessie Verena.

E. W. Setree, M. D., was born in England, April 7, 1847. He was liberally educated in the institutions of the old country, and graduated in medicine from McGill University, Montreal, in the class of 1878. He immediately thereafter commenced the practice of his profession in Heuvelton, where he has since been located, enjoying the leading pat- ronage of the locality. He married, in 1879, Lucy Maclaren, and they have three children. Dr. Setree is a skillful, learned and honorable

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practitioner, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of the medical fraternity as well also of the general public.

Jesse Reynolds, M.D., was born in Chazy, Clinton county, December 10, 1823, a son of Guy Reynolds, a prominent farmer of that town. The tradition ancestry is that sometime in the eighteenth century seven brothers of this name came to this country from Ireland and located in Rhode Island. The first of the family in Vermont was Grindle Rey- nolds, father of Guy. The latter married Elizabeth Hyde, a native of Vermont. The boyhood of Jesse was spent at Grand Island, Vt. He was educated in the common schools, and at twenty-one years of age he went into the office of Hardy H. Reynolds, M.D., in Alburgh, Vt., where he spent three years, attending lectures at old Vermont Medical College at Woodstock, and graduating June 14, 1847. His first practice was at South Canton, St. Lawrence county, where he spent twelve years. In February, 1860, he located in Potsdam, where he has ever since prac- ticed. Dr. Reynolds was the chairman of the Board of Health in 1890- 91, was a member of the first Local Board of the Potsdam State Nornal School, and the only one of that first board now living in Potsdam, that is still a trustee. Dr. Reynolds married, in September, 1852, Lorena Montgomery, of Canton, who died in March, 1871. His second wife was Lucy A. Leonard, of Canton, who died in November, 1882. The present Mrs. Reynolds was Elizabeth Hargrave, of Madrid. Dr. Rey- nold has seven children.

Freeman A. Pease, M. D., was born in the town of Brasher, Novem- ber 27, 1842. The earliest ancestor we find of this family in the coun- try is Captain John Pease, who was a native of England and immigrated to this country about 1620, and settled in Massachusetts. Ebenezer Pease, the great- grandfather of our subject, was a native of Massachu- setts and was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. The grandfather, Abel Pease, was born in Vermont and was the first of the family to come to St. Lawrence county, and located in the town of Lawrence about 1828. He built the first farm house in the village of North Law- rence, and it was there he reared his family and spent the balance of his days. He died in 1868, aged eighty-seven years. He was the father of twelve children, of which Abel, father of our subject, is the fourth son. He was born in Vermont, April 5, 1818. He has always followed

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mechanical pursuits and the last fifteen or twenty years has been a resi- dent of Norwood. The mother of our subject, Sally Clark, was a native of Grand Isle county, Vt., a daughter of Freeman Clark, a prominent figure in the Legislature of the State a number of years. Dr. Pease was one of a family of six children, three of whom are now living : Lucius L., of Norwood ; William H., a farmer of Canton ; and Freeman A. . The early life of our subject was spent in the town of Lawrence, where he received his education in Lawrenceville Academy. He com- menced the study of medicine while teaching in Lawrenceville Academy in the office of Dr. Joseph A. Jackson. In 1846, after one year's study of medicine he enlisted in Company K, 193d regiment, N. Y. Volunteer Infantry, and was appointed hospital steward, which position he filled at the Post Hospital, Cumberland City, Md., until the close of the war. Returning at the close of the war he entered the University of Vermont at Burlington, graduating with the degree of M. D., June 15, 1867. He commenced practice in Norwood July 13, 1867, and has ever since been here. He is a member of St. Lawrence Coun- ty Medical Society and also of the Northern N. Y. Medical Association. He has been a member of Norwood lodge I. O. O. F. and is now a member of Luther Priest Post G. A. R., No. 167, and has held the office of surgeon. He is a member of the Congregational church of Norwood, and has filled the office of health officer of Norwood village. Dr. Pease married, June 10, 1868, Helen M. Lester, of Parishville, and they had two sons, one died at seven years of age ; and Leslie Allan is practicing law at Dunkirk, N. Y. Mrs. Pease died August 30, 1884, and he mar- ried second, October 6, 1886, Ella A., daughter of John Walker, of Sherbrook, Quebec.

James Garvin, M. D., was born in Kings county, Ireland, in 1828, and came to America in 1848. He studied medicine with Dr. William Robinson of Antwerp, and was graduated in 1853. In that year he came to Black Lake and has resided forty years in Morristown, twenty- five of which has been spent in this place. He was postmaster under Cleveland's first administration. In 1858 Dr. Garvin married Mary, daughter of John Brewer, and they have a family of two sons and five daughters : John B., James W., Mary, Carrie, Ellen, Laura and Grace. Dr. Garvin takes a lively interest in educational matters, and has been a

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member of the Morristown Board of Education from its formation to the present time. He has also held other local offices.

James M. Marsh, M. D., was born in Stockholm, June 27, 1862, a son of Morgan Marsh, a farmer of that town. Dr. Marsh was educated at the common schools and graduated from the Potsdam State Normal School in February, 1887. He studied medicine first in the office of Dr. J. E. Britton of Potsdam, and in October, 1887, entered New York Homeopathic College of Medicine, from which he graduated April 17, 1890. He was for a year in the Williamsburg Dispensary, and then spent eighteen months in Colton, St. Lawrence county. December I, 1892, he bought out the practice of Dr. J. E. Britton in Potsdam, where he has since been engaged in practice, which acquired consider- able proportion, holding the best part Dr. Britton had and acquiring considerable new. He married in 1887, Nora Crossman of Antwerp, and they have one daughter, Emma L.

Dr. Hiram D. Brown was born in Canada, September 21, 1833, the son of Amos Brown, a mechanic and speculator, born in Vermont. The mother of our subject was Olive Bartlett, also a native of Vermont. The early life of our subject was spent in Canada. He was educated in Derby and Brownington Academies in Vermont. He was sixteen years of age when he took up the study of medicine ; the first year in the office of Dr. S. A. Skinner and afterwards in the office of Dr. H. H. Carpenter. In 1856 he entered Berkshire Medical College, at Pittsfield, graduating two years later, the winter of 1858. He began practice in Rochester, Vt., in company with Dr. C. B. Currier, now dean of San Francisco, Cal., Medical College. He practiced in Roches- ter for a year and then in Moretown three years. December 12, 1862, he moved to Potsdam where he has ever since practiced. While with Dr. Currier he took up the study of homoeopathy and February II, 1878, he was made a member of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York. He was a member of old St. Lawrence Coun- ty Medical Society, and its first secretary.

P. Monackey, M. D., was born in Canada, April 18, 1857. He re- ceived his elementary education in St. Mary's College, Montreal, and studied medicine in Victoria College in that town, graduating in 1885.

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In December of that year he came to Gouverneur and established him- self in the practice of medicine. In 1883 he married Aldegronde Jodoin, and they have two children. Dr. Monackey is a member of the St. Lawrence County Medical Society, and is an active Democrat. He is an able speaker and took the stump successfully for his party in the presidential campaign of 1892.

Aaron M. Larkin, M.D., was born in Beekmantown, Clinton county, N. Y., April 5, 1842, a son of Lorenzo D. Larkin, also a native of Clin- ton county, a farmer and speculator. The mother of our subject, Agnes Mason, was also from Clinton county. They were married in 1841, and had three children. A daughter, Adeliza M., died in Winona, Minn., in 1866, at twenty-three years of age. Another sister, Martha C., is the wife of Edwin D. McBanker, of Beekmantown, Mrs. Larkin died December 10, 1848. The early life of our subject was spent on the homestead farm, and in attending the common schools. His education was finished at the old Plattsburg Academy, and he began the study of medicine with Dr. L. F. Bidwell, and after his death studied with Dr. T. B. Nichols, of Plattsburg. In 1866 he entered Vermont University at Burlington, and completed his course in medical study June 18, 1868. Being of poor health he did not commence the practice of medi- cine until 1870. His first location was at West Chazy, Clinton county, where he practiced eight years, and in 1878 moved to Norwood and took the place of Dr. John A. Wilbur, and has ever since been located here. He has built up an extensive and lucrative practice, and enjoys the distinction of being one of the foremost physicians in this town. He has been a member of the Board of Education of Norwood Academy for the last six years, a Mason ten years, pastmaster of What Cheer Lodge No. 689, a member of St. Lawrence Chapter No. 24, and St. Lawrence Commandery No. 28. He has been a member of Norwood Lodge No. 486, I. O. O. F., twelve years, Ogdensburg Encampment No. 32, and Canton Amaranth No. 12. Dr. Larkin married, May 26, 1869, Gertrude E. Atwood, of West Chazy, N Y., and they have two children : Lorenzo D., a student in pharmacy with M. W. Collins & Son, Norwood, and William A., a student of the academy.

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Our county and its people : a memorial record of St. Lawrence County, New York, Part 28

Author: Curtis, Gates Publication date: 1894 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason Number of Pages: 1328

Author: Curtis, Gates
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1328