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DR. ALFRED HASBROUCK was born in Ulster County, N. Y., July 17, 1820. His father was a great grandson of Abram Hasbrouck, and his mother was the great-great granddaughter of Jean Hasbrouck, two brothers who came to America before the close of the 17th cen- tury, and were two of the twelve patentees and original settlers of New Paltz.
Dr. Hasbrouck received his preliminary education at Kingston
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Academy, and was graduated from Yale with the degree of A. B. in 1844. He then came to Poughkeepsie to study medicine with Dr. John Barnes, and graduated from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of New York, in 1848. He actively pursued the practice of his profession in Poughkeepsie for over fifty years with skill and fidelity.
He had an exalted idea of the honor and dignity, as well as the duties and obligations of the medical profession, and while he sacredly observed these obligations on his part, he exactingly required the re- spect due the noble art of healing on the part of others-as well fellow physicians as patients. He was quiet and unassuming in his ways, and possessed a generous nature, which was ever open to the appeals of the needy and distressed.
For many years in his younger days he was Alms House physician. He was Health Officer of the city for some time, and for a long time after the Civil War he was Medical Examiner for this district under the United States Pension Bureau.
During the whole of his useful career he was one of the medical staff of St. Barnabas Hospital, and for a number of years he was vice- president of the medical corps of Vassar Hospital. In 1883-'84 he was president of the Dutchess County Medical Society.
Dr. Hasbrouck died May 9, 1903, aged 83 years.
DR. EDWARD HAZEN PARKER, son of Hon. Isaac and Sarah (Ains- worth) Parker, was born in the city of Boston, Mass., in 1823. Dr. Parker graduated from Dartmouth College in 1846, and received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in 1848. In the same year he was appointed lecturer on anatomy and physiology at Bow- doin Medical College, and for the following nine years was editor of the New Hampshire Medical Journal. In 1853 Dr. Parker was called to the chair of Physiology and Pathology in the New York Medical College, and associated himself in practice with Dr. Fordyce Barker in New York City. He at this time established the New York Medical Monthly, which he continued to edit personally for many years with great ability and success. In 1854 he received the degree of A.M. from Trinity College. In 1858, as the result of overwork, Dr. Par- ker had serious trouble with his eyes, necessitating his removal from the city, and in the outdoor life of a country practice to seek the recovery of his health. He came to Poughkeepsie, where, as a general practitioner and consultant, he practiced his profession for nearly
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forty years. He was elected president of the New York State Medi- cal Society in 1862, and in the same year, and in the succeeding one, went to the front as a volunteer surgeon in the service of New York State. The doctor was one of the trustees of, and visiting surgeons to St. Barnabas Hospital from its opening until it was closed in 1877. In 1877 he was appointed visiting surgeon to Vassar Brothers' Hos- pital, and elected president of the medical board. Dr. Parker died November 10th, 1896. He was twice married, his first wife, Sarah (Heyderk), died in 1880, leaving three daughters and one son, Dr. Harry Parker, all of whom are living. In 1883 he married Jennie C. Wright, who, with one son, survives her husband. Dr. Parker was a physician of signal competency and skill, and as a surgeon he had few superiors. He was a man of very fine fibre, of unusual cultivation, and of high scholarly attainments.
DR. JOSEPH MANNING CLEAVELAND was born in Newbury, Mass., in July, 1824. He came from a family which had many members of the medical profession, his grandfathers on both sides being doctors.
He graduated from Princeton University at an early age, and then began the study of medicine in the New York Medical School under Drs. Gordon Buck and Joseph M. Smith, who at that time were at the head of the profession. He was then appointed to the New York Hospital, on Broadway, where he spent three years as resident phy- sician. After leaving this institution he joined his friend, Dr. Cor- nelius P. Agnew in the medical care of over twelve hundred miners, at the Great Cliff Mine on Lake Superior. Later he went to Utica as first assistant to Dr. Gray, the superintendent of that Asylum, where he remained for several years. While there he acted as editor of the American Journal of Insanity.
At this period of his career the needs of the eastern part of the State of New York for greater provision for the insane impressed themselves so strongly on his mind that he prepared the bill for the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane, and carried it through the Legislature. This was the first time the term "hospital" was used in this connection as opposed to the old term "asylum."
A committee was appointed to secure a site for the building. The business of selecting and deciding upon the same was practically left to him, and after a thorough investigation of them all, he fixed upon Poughkeepsie. His choice was ratified by the committee. His labors
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for many years in arranging the multifarious details of the buildings, laying out the roads, water works, sewers, the planting of trees, etc., speak for themselves.
Dr. Cleaveland remained at the head of this institution for over a quarter of a century, and in 1893 retired from the service of the State, which he had served so faithfully and well, a martyr to political inter- ference.
At a meeting of the Dutchess County Medical Club held in Pough- keepsie February 25, 1907, Dr. James E. Sadlier paid a deserved tribute to the memory of Dr. Cleaveland. In closing his remarks he said: "Dr. Cleaveland died January 21, 1907, aged 83 years. He is dead, but he has left us a heritage of greater value than gold or precious stones,-the example of a noble life well spent."
DR. EDWIN BARNES was born in Troy, July 28th, 1844, though his family had lived in this county for generations. Before completing his course at the Albany Medical College, he in 1864 entered the army as a medical cadet, and his degree was given him while in the service. In 1866 he began practice in Pleasant Plains, where he continued until his death, January 22nd, 1904. He had been active in the coun- cils of this society, and was on the consulting staff of Vassar Broth- ers' Hospital.
ROBERT K. TUTHILL, who at the time of his death, June 9, 1909, was the oldest practicing physician in Poughkeepsie, was born in New- burgh January 18, 1835, a son of Dr. Samuel Tuthill. Dr. Tuthill came to Poughkeepsie with his father in 1848. He studied medicine in the New York Medical College, from which he graduated in 1859, and began the practice of his profession in Poughkeepsie.
In 1861 he volunteered as a surgeon in the Union army, and served his country with distinction through the Civil War. He had charge of the hospital at Fredericksburg in 1862.
Dr. Tuthill was made a member of the medical staff of St. Barnabas Hospital at the opening of that institution, continuing in that capacity until the hospital closed in 1884. He was selected as one of the sur- geons of Vassar Brothers' Hospital by the founders of that institution.
Dr. Tuthill was blessed with a sense of humor, and his innate wit played with scintillating effect through all his work. To have known him as a family physician is to have felt the influence of good cheer
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and constant hope in the sick-room. His presence brought confi- dence and relief like a benediction to the sufferer. He was for almost a generation among the busiest of men to be found in the community. He numbered his patients among the rich and the poor, and he gave, in fullest measure, all his splendid gifts to every case with which he had anything to do. His skill was acknowledged wherever he was known, and his kindly expressions endeared him to his patients and their friends.
HISTORICAL SKETCH, 1740-1908.
The first evidence of a doctor practicing in Dutchess County is found in the Assessor's book for 1740, in the County Clerk's office : It reads, "The doctor of Rhinebeck" (giving the amount assessed). These Assessors did not keep their books with a view to enlightening future searchers of the past, but only to designate a certain individual for the purpose of assessment, and this designation of "the doctor" would be sufficient if there was but one doctor, as there was here. Then, as the affair develops, the doctor had a hard name to spell; they make four efforts to accomplish this, and we can only judge by the evidence which of the spellings is correct. In 1748 the assessment is made against "Doctor Guselbruht" for five pounds one shilling. In 1750 it is "Doctor Guselbright." In 1754 it is "Doctor Kesel- brught." In 1755 it is "Doctor Kisolbright." As during the years 1740 to 1755 there is no other doctor mentioned in Rhinebeck Pre- cinct, and but one other (Dr. Nicholas De LaVergne) in the whole county, we may well believe that "the doctor of Rhinebeck" and "Doc- tor Kesolbright" are the same. The two letters given below bear directly on this subject, and also tend to show that there was a doctor at Rhinebeck before there was one at Kingston, which proves the opposite of the theory which has so often been advanced that there were doctors in Ulster County long before there were any in Dutchess County, because Ulster had the larger population at that time.
Kingston ye 5th march, 1741/2
Loving Son
I wrote to you before that your Sister Hannah was the Same day you went, taken with Spitting of blood, and black Stuff like Corroded blood and fevourish, and is so weeke with it that wee have two Girles Every night to sit up, by her, She Spitts no more blood but is very week your mother is better but sill very week has no Stomach to her victuals. If Philip more has Recorded a deed which
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he had of Capt. Barent van Benthuysen Send or bring me a Copy of it. the River will be passable here soon with a Cannoe Yesterday the Rondout Creek was open from the Dock to the middle of the Rivr, alida went home last wednesday. Remain with our Love yr affet father
GIL: LIVINGSTON
To Henry Livingston Esqr Clarke of the peace of Dutchess County at Mr Yel- vertons.
Kingston ye 7th march 1741/2
Loving Son
I wrote you that yr Sister Hannah was taken ill the same day you left this place and She groes dayly weeker and Cant hold it Long unles it please God to give a Change William Cool Came over Just by Lowrence hendrick this morning who is to Returne with the doctor tomorrow morning. and I believe that one Can goe over at van wagenen with a cannoe. I want a Copy of a deed from Barent Benthuysen to philip more if it is Recorded. I Remain yor Loving father
GIL: LIVINGSTON
P. S. Your mother is still very week. To Henry Livingston Esqr at Poghkeepsinck.
Here it is shown, that waiting for the ice to go out of the river, these letters were sent over the river in a canoe by a messenger to Rhinebeck who would bring the doctor back with him to see the sick girl. In the records of the Reformed Church of Kingston, there is a baptism of a child of Godfried Geisselbracht and wife, February 7th, 1742, and in the record of the Reformed Church of Rhinebeck there is the record of the baptism of a child of the same parents, Sept. 11th, 1743. The last mention that we can find of this doctor in Rhine- beck is in 1755, and about 1760 we find there was "A German, G. Gyselbricht, Surgeon and Practitioner in Physic," in New York City. It would seem reasonable to suppose that he left Rhinebeck for New York between those dates.
DR. CORNELIUS OSBORNE, of Poughkeepsie, is the second physician whom we find to have been practicing in the county, and fortunately we can give of him quite a full and accurate account. There was a Francis Filkins living in Poughkeepsie in those days, and he is known and made celebrated by an account book which he kept, and which has been preserved for our enlightenment. In this book is found the following memorandum: "1745, September 1st. Dr. Cornelius Ras- bun agreed with me for twenty shillings per year to doctor my family. He has due one pound." In the Assessor's book for 1757 we find Dr. Cornelius Osborne assessed for one pound one shilling at Poughkeepsie.
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Now we know that this Dr. Osborne was born in England, July 13th, 1723, that he practiced at Poughkeepsie up to the Revolutionary War, that he joined the American Army as a surgeon, and served in the war, and died about one-half mile above Fishkill, at Osborne Hill, on August 23rd, 1782. He left three sons, all doctors, and all dying bachelors at the homestead. They were James, born August 13th, 1748; Peter, born March 4th, 1759; Thomas, born July 27th, 1764. There was a daughter who had a son, Dr. Cornelius Remson. He was born at Newton, L. I., February 14th, 1789. He came to Fishkill, September 7th, 1804, studied medicine with his uncles, and with Dr. Bartow White, he was licensed to practice by the society in 1810, and served as a surgeon in the army during the war of 1812. Dr. Rem- sen practiced medicine at Wappingers Falls and lived there until his death, December 4th, 1883.
DR. WILLIAM MOORE. We are fortunate in having quite a detailed account of Dr. Moore, who was assessed for land in the Middle Pre- cinct, now the Town of Beekman, as early as 1735, although he was not a resident of the county at that time. Dr. Moore was born at. Antrim, Ireland, February 12th, 1705, and received his medical edu- cation before emigrating. He married Mary Palmer, of Stonington, Conn., June 4th, 1729, and was in Union Vale in 1745, but had real estate in Westchester County, where he spent part of the time. He must have settled at his home in Union Vale about 1746. His wife joined the Society of Friends before coming to this county, and he became an active member also, and a noted preacher of the society. He tells us that while he was practicing his professions here (for he preached, practiced law and medicine), after 1745 the roads through Dutchess County were only trails through the woods, marked by blazed trees, impassible for wagons, all traveling being on horseback, with wolves and Indians constantly about. Dr. Moore was killed in the woods, his horse returning home without him while he was making a professional visit on November 25th, 1752. His son, Allan Moore, built the mill which has named the postoffice Moore's Mills.
In 1741 there lived in the "Gore," a strip of land between the Great and Little Nine Partners, now called Shekomeko, a "Christian Henry Rauch," a Moravian missionary, teacher and physician. He did not call himself doctor, but he treated the sick for miles around acceptably.
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DR. NICHOLAS DE LA VERGNE was born in France in 1703, and tradition says came to this country in 1720 on a French man-of-war, as a surgeon. He is first found in this county at the Oblong, where he owned a large tract of land. In 1747 he was on his farm, which now forms part of Mr. Oakleigh Thorne's place, in the Town of Washington, and in the Supervisors' books for that year he is allowed one pound, one shilling for pasturing twelve horses and serving the Assessors. He was a man of affairs, a Justice of the Peace, and a Probate Judge. He speculated in land and practiced his profession and was a man of substance, being assessed in 1748 for thirteen pounds ten shillings, a large sum for those days. He was known through- out the county as the French doctor, and a dam which he built is known as the French doctor's dam to this day. He died in 1783. Dr. Benjamin De La Vergne was his son.
DR. THEODORUS VAN WYCK was born at Johnsville (now Wicopee) in 1730. He may have commenced practice about 1752, certainly the earliest doctor in Fishkill. He was a delegate to the Second Pro- vincial Congress in 1775 from New York, where he had been com- pelled to move on account of his outspoken patriotism. He was elected to the Third Congress in 1776 from Fishkill, and was a mem- ber of the Committee of Safety during the Revolution. He served in the Second Dutchess Regiment, and afterwards in the Sixth. Dr. Van Wyck practiced medicine actively, and had a fine temper of his own. He died in 1797 and is buried in Rombout cemetery.
These were the first physicians practicing in the county. The names of many who followed them are given alphabetically. They have been gathered from files of old newspapers, local histories and family records, by tramping through cemeteries, churchyards and family burying grounds. The data of several living members of the profession are absent because they did not answer letters of inquiry sent them.
ACKERT, WILLIAM S. Born Rhinebeck, December 18th, 1865; graduated Albany, 1891; Rensselaer, 1892-1900; Poughkeepsie and Society, 1901.
.ADAMS, ELIJAH. Born February 15th, 1754; army surgeon during the Revolution; died Pine Plains, April 14th, 1837; buried Vedder Church, Gallatin.
J. WILSON POUCHER, M.D.
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ALLABORN, EZRA W. Born April 18th, 1820; died Upper Red Hook, December 11th, 1853.
ALLERTON, CORNELIUS. Born Amenia, July 23rd, 1779. Son of Dr. Reuben Allerton. He studied medicine at New Haven, beginning practice at Amenia in 1803. He was a successful physician, and es- teemed by all for his charity and kindness of heart. He died at Pine Plains, April 26th, 1855.
ALLERTON, CORNELIUS. Born Pine Plains, May 19th, 1819. A son of Dr. Cornelius Allerton. He was a man of good natural abili- ties, but erratic and indolent. He died suddenly at Dover Plains, January 15th, 1867.
ALLERTON, REUBEN. Born Canterbury, Conn., December 25th, 1753. He was unusually well educated for those times, and studied medicine with Dr. Fitch, of New Haven, and surgery with Dr. Spaul- ding, of Norwich. He moved to Amenia, and entering the army as a surgeon he was present at the battle of Saratoga and the surrender of Burgoyne. He was in Col. Hopkins' Regiment, 1777. Died Amenia, October 13th, 1808.
ALLISON, HENRY E. Born Concord, N. H., December 1st, 1851; graduated A. B. Dartmouth, 1875; M. D. Dartmouth, 1878; Super- intendent Asylum for Insane Criminals at Auburn, N. Y., July 1st, 1889; Superintendent Matteawan State Hospital, 1882; Society 1893. A man whose honesty of purpose and force of character was so plainly marked in every line of his face as to give him great influence over the unfortunates committed to his care. Eminent in his specialty. Author of many monographs on insanity. Died November 12th, 1904.
ANDREWS, NELSON. Born about 1803; Hyde Park and Society, 1835. A peculiar character, penurious, accumulating a large prop- erty. Never married. Died at Poughkeepsie, July 27th, 1873.
ANDREWS, ROBERT WESLEY. Born Rochdale, N. Y., September 9th, 1869; graduated Albany, 1898; Poughkeepsie and Society, 1898; active service as Assistant Surgeon U. S. A. in the Philippines, 1899- 1902 ; Poughkeepsie, 1902.
ANDRUS, CHARLES HAWLEY. Born October 13th, 1823; graduated
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P. & S., 1845; perceptor, Dr. E. R. Grant ; Poughkeepsie, 1845; So- ciety, 1854; Assistant Surgeon 128th N. Y. V. I., 1862 ; Medical In- spector, 1864 ; died Metuchen, N J., August 13th, 1905.
ANNAN, DANIEL D. Born Fishkill, June 11th, 1792; Surgeon in war of 1812; Society, 1821; died Matteawan, November 23d, 1834.
ANTHONY, THEODORE V. W. Born Fishkill, May 31st, 1801; So- ciety, 1825 ; member of State Legislature, 1834; died Glenham, April 15th, 1868.
ATWOOD, JOHN W. Born Marion, N. Y., September 14th, 1862; graduated Jefferson, 1888; Marion, 1888-96; Fishkill-on-Hudson and Society, 1905.
BAKER, BENJAMIN N. Born Montgomery County, Pa., October 2d, 1833; graduated Pennsylvania Medical College, 1857; Surgeon U. S. A., 1862-3; Rhinebeck, 1868; Society, 1878.
BALDWIN, LESTER CASS. Born Jewett, N. Y., December 14th, 1850; New York University, 1879; Tivoli, 1879.
BAMFORD, THOMAS E. Born New York City,. November 11th, 1867; graduated N. Y. University, 1889; H. R. S. H., 1893-1904 ; Society, 1894.
BARD, JOHN. Born Burlington, N. J., February 20th, 1716; died Hyde Park, N. Y., April 1st, 1799; buried 'St. James' Churchyard.
BARNES, JOHN HENRY. Born Poughkeepsie, March 22nd, 1818. Son of Dr. John Barnes. Office in Garden street, 1852. Died New York City, February 8th, 1880.
BARNES, PETER. Born Poughkeepsie, October 8th, 1808. A half brother of Dr. John Barnes; graduated P. and S., 1835; Pough- keepsie and Society, 1835; died December 5th, 1870.
BARNUM, HENRY WESTON. Born Bridgeville, N. Y., January 19th, 1859; Jefferson, 1890; Poughkeepsie and Society, 1890.
BARTON, LEONARD. Born Stanford, N. Y., 1769; Society, 1829; died, 1841. A man of more than usual intelligence.
BARTON, LEWIS. Born, 1724; practiced in the Town of Stanford, 1770-1801; died, 1813. Father of Dr. Leonard Barton.
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BARTON, THOMAS JEFFERSON. Born Valatia, N. Y., 1830; gradu- ated Albany, 1855; Madalin, 1856; Society, 1878; died Tivoli, Sep- tember 13th, 1903. A well read man; a writer of verses; served in Civil War.
BASCH, SAMUEL H. Graduated Albany, 1903; Rhinebeck and So- ciety, 1904.
BATES, JOHN. Born November 26th, 1812; Lower Red Hook, suc- ceeding Dr. Benedict ; Society, 1841 ; died June 8th, 1877.
BATES, XYRIS T. Born Lebanon Springs, August 11th, 1839; graduated A. B., Yale, 1862; M. D., Albany, 1867; Rotunda Hos- pital, Dublin, 1871; Poughkeepsie and Society, 1890; died Pough- keepsie, January 2nd, 1899.
BAYLEY, GUY CARLETON. Born Eden Hill, Poughkeepsie, October 16th, 1850; grandson of Dr. Guy Carleton Bayley and great-grand- son of Dr. Richard Bayley, of New York City ; student of Dr. H. B. Sands ; graduate P. and S., 1872 ; Poughkeepsie, 1872; physician St. Barnabas Hospital and Orphan House; Assistant Surgeon Woman's Hospital, New York City; Surgeon-in-Chief Vassar Brothers' Hos- pital; Society, 1873.
BAXTER, WILLIAM. Born Delhi, N. Y., 1805; graduated A. B., Union College; M. D., P. and S., 1831 ; practiced New York City and Wappingers Falls; died July 3d, 1875.
BEADLE, EDWARD L. Born Pleasant Valley, N. Y., July 12th, 1807; graduated P. and S., 1829; Society, 1829; practiced Hyde Park, 1834, New York City, 1859; retired, his wife inheriting a large property ; Poughkeepsie, 1862; died April 5th, 1882; Vice-president College P. and S .; trustee of many public and charitable institutions ; also held many civil offices. A man of high character, very popular, and greatly respected.
BECKWITH, GEORGE S. Born Litchfield, Conn., 1841; graduated Yale ; practiced at Ballston, N. Y., Pine Plains, 1868; died about 1890.
BEERS, VILLEROY. Born, 1789; Society, 1817; died Poughkeepsie, February 28th, 1846.
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BELDEN, SAMUEL. Supposed to have settled at Pleasant Valley about 1770. Moved to New York City in 1815, where he died June 4th, 1830, at an advanced age.
BELDING, SILAS T. Born Town of Washington, January 6th, 1795. Practiced at Poughkeepsie and Dover, where he died, January 2nd, 1859.
BELL, WILLIAM P. Born Gettysburg, Penn., February 25th, 1822; Fishkill Landing, 1850; Society, 1854 ; died December 4th, 1869.
BENEDICT, ABIJAH G. Born Salem, N. Y., 1790; student of Dr. James Downs of Pleasant Valley; licensed by Dutchess County So- ciety, 1815; Society, 1816; member of the State Legislature, 1835-6; Lower Red Hook, 1816; died October 3rd, 1862.
BENEDICT, ABIJAH G. Born, 1833; P. and S., 1855; Assistant Surgeon 125th N. Y. V. I .; discharged November 18th, 1862; died Red Hook, April 15th, 1873.
BERRY, CHARLES H. Born Mahopac, N. Y., 1842; graduated Uni- versity Michigan, 1868; Dover Plains, 1868; Society, 1869.
BERRY, CYRUS. Society, 1806; Pleasant Valley after Dr. Ely.
BIRD, J. STERLING. Born Winchester, Conn., August 29th, 1836; graduated P. and S., 1863; Hyde Park, 1865; Society, 1866; died April 3d, 1900.
BIRD, W. LANGDON. Born Middletown, Conn., 1867; New York University, 1893; Matteawan S. H .; Society, 1894.
BLISS, WILLIAM A. Born Nassau, May 5th, 1841; graduated Al- bany, 1866; practiced Brooklyn till 1892, when he retired and lived at Spy Hill, Matteawan.
BOCKEE, JACOB. Born Northeast, 1814; graduated Union M. A., 1836; M. D., University Pennsylvania; Society, 1840; in the drug business in Poughkeepsie and Chicago; Brigade Surgeon of Volun- teers, 1862; in charge of the Marine Hospital, New Orleans, 1866; died November 26th, 1885. A scholarly man of retiring disposition.
* BOLTON, EDWARD CLAY. Born April 25th, 1818; in the drug business in New Orleans and Poughkeepsie; Society, 1867; died Oc- tober 19th, 1892.
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BORST, NELSON. Born Cobleskill, N. Y., January 8th, 1857; grad- uated P. and S., 1889; Poughkeepsie and Society, 1890.
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