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County, Pa., being the first and only resident physician in the place at that time.
AUGUSTUS PERRY ROWLEY, M.D., son of Alexander William and Ann Caroline Priest Rowley, was born at Susquehanna, Pa., 1859. He was educated at Newton Collegiate Insti- tute, Sussex Co., N. J. ; commenced reading medicine with Dr. E. N. Smith, of Susquehanna, in the fall of 1878 ; attended lectures at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, where he graduated in the spring of 1882. In the sum- mer of the same year he commenced practice at Norfolk, Va., but returned north, and in the spring of 1883 attended the post-graduate course at the University of Pennsylvania ; began practice at Susquehanna in the fall of 1883, and in the spring of 1884 entered into partnership with Dr. E. N. Smith, remaining with him until the spring of 1866, when he re- moved to Creston, Ogle County, Ill., and thence at the end of three months to Chicago, his present residence. He joined the Susquehanna County Medical Society in 1885.
JAMES MARTIN NEWMAN, M.D., son of Martin and Belinda Salisbury Newman, was born at Lanesboro', 1846. His father was a native of Stamford, Conn., and his mother of Lanesboro'. He attended school at Lanesboro', Great Bend and Montrose, and taught school two ternis; read medicine with Dr. C. C. Halsey, of Montrose, and attended lectures at the University of Michigan in 1867-68. He attended a second course at a medical college at Cleveland, Ohio, whence he gradnated in 1869.
He married Elizabeth Dewing, of Warren- ham, Bradford County, Pa., 1873. He prac- ticed a short time at Montrose, then at Stevens- ville, Bradford County, from spring of 1870 to December, 1872, then at Little Meadows, whence he removed to Elmira, N. Y., where he was in continuous practice until his death, in 1881. He was elected coroner in Elmira in 1875 for three years. He was greatly mourned by the poor, to whom he had been very kind.
PERRY SCHOONMAKER, M.D., son of William D. and Eliza Smith Schoonmaker, was born in Brooklyn, this county, 1854. He attended the Montrose Graded School about two years, and
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had some experience as a teacher of common schools. He commenced reading medicine with Dr. C. C. Halsey, of Montrose, in 1876, and after attending the requisite courses of lectures at the University of Michigan, was graduated from that institution in 1880. Soon afterward he commenced practice at Hopbottom, where he continued until May, 1887, when he removed to the city of New York. In 1874 he married Ann M. Henry, who died 1879. In 1883 lie married Linnie I. Utley, of Hopbottom. In 1880 he became a member of the Susquehanna County Medical Society, and represented that body at the meeting of the State Society in 1885. Faithful and conscientious in the dis- charge of his duties, lie is a growing man and sustains an excellent reputation among his pro- fessional brethren.
WARREN WILLIS STRANGE, M.D., son of Isaac and Ann E. Gregory Strange, was born at Birehardville, Pa., 1849. He attended the Montrose Graded School and taught several winter terms of district school. In 1878 he began to read medicine with Dr. C. C. Halsey, of Montrose, and attended his first course of lectures at the University of Michigan in 1879-80, and his second course at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1880-81, graduating there. He immediately commenced practice at Montrose, where he has continued to the present time. He has been jail physician and held the office of coroner by appointment of the Governor to fill an unexpired term, and was elected to that office in 1886. He joined the Susquehanna County Medical Society in 1882. In 1887 he married Emma Dalrymple, of Morristown, N. J.
COVINGTON H. WARNER, M.D., was born 1837 in Pike township, Bradford County, Pa., to which place his father, Harmon Warner, came from Litchfield County, Conn., about 1817. In 1858 he commenced reading medi- cine with Dr. Benjamin De Witt, of Le Rays- ville. He attended one course of lectures at the University of Michigan and another at Georgetown, D. C., where he graduated in 1861. He was married, 1861, to Emeline M. Barnes, of Orwell, Pa. He practiced medicine at Belle- fontaine, Iowa, two years and then returned to
Bradford County. In Mareh, 1864, he enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and Forty- first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was with the Army of the Potomac in its en- gagements under General Grant until Novem- ber, 1864. when he was detailed as assistant surgeon to the Emery Hospital, Washington, D. C., where he remained until March, 1865, when he returned to the front and continued until the end of the war. He practiced medi- cine at Stevensville, Bradford County, until 1869, when he removed to Le Raysville, where his wife died. He re-married Anelia M. Bris- ter, of the same place, in 1872. He removed from Le Raysville to Rushville, this county, in 1883, where he is engaged in a large practice. His genial manner, uniform courtesy and open hospitality have won him many friends, while his successful treatment has commanded the confidenee of his patients.
DR. MASON DENNISON came from Vermont to Brooklyn, Pa., in 1811, and after a few years' practice there, removed to Montrose, where he died 1838. He married Miss Wealthy Lathrop, of Bridgewater, who died 1852. They had two sons and two daughters, of whom only Mrs. Jane A., wife of Edmund Baldwin, Esq., of Montrose, is living.
DR. HARRY DENNISON BALDWIN, son of Edmund and Jane Antoinette Dennison Bald- win, and grandson of Dr. Mason Dennison, was born at Montrose, 1852. He obtained his education in the schools of Montrose and studied medicine with Dr. J. D. Vail, of the same place. He attended lectures at the New York Homeopathic Medical College in 1873-74-75, whence he graduated, and has since practiced in Montrose, except about a year in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1882-83. In 1881 he was elected coro- ner of Susquehanna County and served part of a term. He married Mrs. Rose B. Allen in 1883.
WILLIAM W. FLETCHER, M.D., was born in Mt. Pleasant, Wayne County, Pa., Jannary 20, 1845. He obtained his education in the con- mon schools and followed teaeliing a number of years. In 1879 he commenced to read medicine with Dr. Henry Pennypacker and Dr. Sanınel Birdsall and attended the College of Physicians
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and Surgeons at Baltimore, and the Medical Department of the University of New York. He practiced three years at Uniondale and is now located at Susquehanna.
GEORGE W. DURGA, M.D., only son of Eliud W. Durga, of Connecticut, was born near Rushville, Pa., 1852. His mother was a daughter of Henry Pepper. He received an academic education and read medicine with Dr. A. Dunham at Rush. He attended his first course of lectures at Jefferson Medical College in 1876-77, and his second at Long Island Col- lege Hospital, whence he graduated in 1878. The same year he commenced practice in Rush, where he still continues, and in 1886 formed a partnership with W. L. Keeney in the drug business. He married Libbie Walden, of Rush, 1881.
WILLIAM SETH MITCHELL, M.D., son of Norman and Eliza Halsey Mitchell, was born at Montrose in 1844. He graduated at Madi- son University in 1866 ; read medicine with Dr. C. C. Halsey, of Montrose ; attended lec- tures at the University of Michigan in 1869-70; took second course of lectures at tlie College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, whence he graduated in the spring of 1871. In the following autumn he engaged in the drug business at Susquehanna, and has so continued to the present time. In January, 1875, he married Mrs. Carrie Tait.
CHARLES JARVIS DRINKER, M.D., son of Joseph D. Drinker, late of Montrose, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, about 1832. His parents came to Montrose when he was young, where he attended school at the academy. He subse- quently took one or more sea voyages. He was a student of medicine in the office of Dr. J. W. Cobb, of Montrose, and attended a course of lectures at the University of Pennsylvania in 1860-61. He entered the army and served until 1864, when he resumed the study and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania. He was established in successful practice at South Gibson until within a week or two of his decease, in 1869, at the house of his father in Montrose.
ANDREW STRYKER BLAIR, M.D., the young- est of eleven children of Alfred and Charlotte
Blair, was born at Conesville, N. Y., Novem- ber 20, 1857. Dr. Blair read medicine with Dr. J. W. Burr, of Newark Valley, N. Y. ; attended lectures at the University of New York, whence he graduated in 1881 ; prac- ticed in Centre Lisle, N. Y., until June, 1883, when he located at Franklin Forks, this county, Pa., his present residenec. In September, 1882, he married Lida E. Japhet, of Ketchumville, N. Y. They have a son and a daughter. He joined the Susquehanna County Medical Society in 1885, and was elected vice-president in 1887.
DR. NORMAN BRUNDAGE, son of Dr. E L. and Agnes V. Brundage, was born at Upson- ville, Pa., in 1842. He obtained his early edu- cation at Montrose Academy. He practiced dentistry in Montrose from Oct., 1864, to Aug., 1868, pursuing the study of medicine at the same time. He commenced practice with his father in South Gibson in 1868, and so contin- ued until the death of his father, in 1871; then practiced at Lawsville until 1874, at Tunkhan- nock, Pa., a year, at Uniondale, Susquehanna County, until 1878, when, after spending a summer in Virginia, he located at Sherman, Wayne County, Pa., his present residence. He married Ellen M. Baker, of New Milford, in 1866.
DR. JONATHAN W. BRUNDAGE was born in Wallkill, Orange County, N. Y., 1796. He came with his brother, Dr. G. N. Brundage, to Gibson township, in April, 1834, where he re- mained in continuons practice until his decease, in 1861. He married Permelia Mills in 1820, and she died 1859. Stephen S. (the eldest of their eight children), P. Jane and George C. still reside in Gibson. His brother, Dr. G. N. Brundage, died in 1838.
DR. DUANE F. BRUNDAGE, son of Dr. Jon- athan W. Brundage, was born 1823. He coin- menced practice in Gibson in 1841, where he continued until his death, in 1864. He received the degree of M.D. from an eclectic school in Philadelphia. In 1852 hc erected a water cure establishment, forty by sixty feet in size and three stories high, which was burned in 1872. In 1853 he married Julia Edith Packer, of Woodstock, Vt., and she is now the wife of Dr.
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A. B. Woodward, of Tunkhannock, Pa. His son, Dr. Arthur D. Brundage, is practicing in Tunkhannock.
DR. EDWIN L. BRUNDAGE was born in Wallkill, Orange County, N. Y., 1804. He studied and practiced medicine with Dr. Carter, an eclectic physician of his native place. In the fall of 1834 he located at Upsonville, Pa., as a practitioner of medicine; in 1856 removed to Lawsville, on the Snake Creek, in the adja- cent township of Liberty, and in 1868 to South Gibson, where he was in partnership with his son Norman until his death, in 1871.
He married Agnes Vanamburgh, of Mont- gomery, New York. One daughter, Adclia A., is wife of Dr. L. P. Roberts, of Port Crane, N. Y.
Dr. Brundage possessed a kind, genial pres- ence, which helped greatly to endear him to many who sought his aid, and the poor never looked to him in vain. If not one of the great and gifted, there are many to whom his memory is precious.
JAMES A. LEWIS, M.D., son of Isaac W. Lewis, was born in Silver Lake township in 1847. He was a graduate of the Owego High School; read medicine with his father, Dr. I. W. Lewis, at Apalachin, N. Y .; attended lec- tures at the University of Michigan in 1864-65, and at the University of New York in 1866, '67 and '68; received the degree of M.D. from the Medical Department of the University of New York in 1869, and immediately located at Brackney, Pa., where he continued in practice until the spring of 1882, when he removed to Ithaca, N. Y., where he now resides. He mar- ried Jennie L. Ferous, of Brackney, in 1870. He joined the Susquehanna County Medical Society in 1877.
CHARLES DAVID MACKEY, M.D., son of David and Miranda Mackey, was born in New Milford in 1854. His father was a farmer and he received his education at the district school and in the graded schools of New Milford and Scranton ; commenced reading nicdicine in 1879 with his brother, Dr. N. C. Mackey, in Springville, and afterward with Dr. G. W. Weaver, of Wilkes-Barre ; attended first course of lectures at the University of New
York in 1880-81, and his second course at Bal- timorc Medical College in 1881-82, graduating in the latter year and immediately commenced practice at Lynn, this county, where he contin- ued until January, 1885. He located at Mont- rose in March, 1885, where he now resides.
June 7, 1884, he married Mary R. Lyman, of Springville.
DR. DEVER JAMES PECK, the second of a family of three children, was born July 4, 1856, in Harford, Susquehanna County, Pa. His father, L. R. Peck, a farmer, and mother, Deborah A. Smith, sister of Dr. L. A. Smith, of New Milford, and of the late Dr. E. N. Smith, of Susquehanna, were born in Susque- hanna County. Dr. Peck received his education principally in the Graded School of Harford, and followed the occupation of farming, then practical bee-keeping, and the profession of teaching for a term of seven years. He became a student of medicine in March, 1883, and attended the University Medical College of New York, where he graduated in the spring of 1886, and is now located at Susquehanna, Pa. He became a member of the Medical Society April 28, 1886.
AUSTIN BIRCHARD SHERMAN, M. D., son of Abel and Louisa Birchard Sherman, was born in Jessup township, 1829. He was the fifth of ten children. His father was a native of New York, and his mother of Massachusetts. He read medicine with Dr. G. Z. Dimock, of Mont- rose and Dr. W. L. Richardson, at Nesque- honing, Pa .; attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, whence he graduated ; practiced a few years at Fairdale, this county, and removed to Girardsville, Pa., his present residence. He joined the Susquehanna County Medical Society in 1862.
CHARLES G. ESTABROOK, M. D., the eldest son of T. D. and Eliza T. (Buck) Estabrook, of Great Bend, was born in Cattaraugus County, N.Y., in 1850. Hc attended Franklin Academy, and his medical studies were pursucd at the University of Pennsylvania, where Dr. William Pepper was his preceptor. He was graduated therefrom in 1870, and came at once to Great Bend and practiced medicine in connection with the drug business of his father between three
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and four years. He then located at Bingham- ton, N. Y., and practiced there until his death, in August, 1880. He married Miss Caroline M. Sears, wlio, with two children, survives him. He joined the Susquehanna County Medical Society in 1873.
C. L. STILES, M.D., son of L. N. and Cynthia Green Stiles, was born in Sussex County, N. J., in 1837. He read medicine with Dr. S. Milton Hand, then of Windsor, N. Y., now of Norwich, N. Y., for four years, and after attend- ing lectures at Geneva Medical College, gradu- ated at that institution in 1865. He practiced a short time at Gibson and thence removed to Owego, N. Y., his present residence. Dr. Stiles united with the Susquehanna County Medical Society in 1863.
DR. CLARK DICKERMAN (1803-53) was born in Guilford, Conn., where he read medi- cine with Dr. Knapp. He married Lydia Knapp, and practiced in his native place for a few years. His first wife died, and he married Sarah A. Chandler for his second wife, in 1833. He practiced medicine in Harford five years, in partnership with Dr. Streeter, and subsequently alone in that township until he died. He was highly esteemed as a physician and had a good practice. Of his children, Mary Louisa is the wife of Clemuel R. Woodin, who owns the Cooper property, which he makes his summer residence.
SANFORD J. ENGLE, M.D., a practicing phy- sician at Jackson, was born in Newark, N. J., in 1855, and is the son of Jacob Engle, a ser- geant in the late war, who was killed at the battle of the Wilderness in 1864. Dr. Engle received his preparatory education at the acad- emy at Union, N. Y., read medicine with Dr. L. D. Witherell, of that place, and was graduated in the January class of '79, at the Albany Medical College. He practiced his profession for a few months at Union, and in July of the same year settled in Jackson, where he has con- tinued his professional labor with success since. His ride extends throughout Gibson, and into the townships of Thomson and Ararat. He is a member of the Susquehanna County Medical Society. He married, in 1879, Ella, a daughter of James McWade, of Union, N. Y.
W. J. LOWRY, M.D., was born In 1855, in Clifford township, and is a son of Jas. W. Lowry, Esq., of Elkdale, Pa. His early in- struction was received at the "city school," near Elk Mt. He entered "Keystone Academy," at Factoryville, Pa., in September, 1873, and gradu- ated from that institution in June, 1876. He registered and studied with Dr. J. C. Olmstead, of Dundaff. He continued his studies at the University of Michigan and the Jefferson Medi- cal College, of Philadelphia, graduating from the last-mentioned institution in 1882.
Since that time he has followed the practice of his profession.
He located in Harford, his present residence, in December, 1883, and became a member of the Medical Society of Susquehanna County in 1886.
DR. CHARLES DECKER, son of Densmore Washington and Miriam Cobb Decker, was born in Walkill, Orange County, N. Y., in 1844. In 1862 he came to Montrose and read medicine with his cousin, Dr. J. W. Cobb; at- tended lectures at Albany Medical College in 1864-65; began practice in Birchardville in 1865. In 1873 he removed to Montrose, where he has since resided. In 1861 he married Mary E. Kirby, of Montrose.
RAY LYONS, M.D., son of Frank A. and Hattie Lyons, was born at Lanesboro' in 1863; received his early education at Lanesboro' Graded School, Susquehanna High School and State Normal School, Potsdam, N. Y .; read medicine with Dr. Morgan L. Miller, of Lanes- boro'; attended lectures at the University of Pennsyvania from 1883 to 1886, graduating in the latter year. In the fall of 1886 he located at Uniondale. He joined Susquehanna County Medical Society in 1887.
DR. ALBERT AUGUSTUS LINDABURY, son of John Redding and Elmira Hall Lindabury, was born at Clinton, N. J., January 15, 1858; was educated at Rutgers College and Fleming- ton School of Science, whence he received the degrce of B.S. in 1878; read medicine with Drs. W. S. Criveling and A. S. Pettinger, of New Jersey ; attended lectures at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1882-83; at Balti- more Medical College in 1883-85, graduating
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there in the latter year; was resident physician at Maryland General Hospital one year ; married Miss Mary McPherson, of Scranton, Pa., July 15, 1885; located at West Auburn, Susque- hanna County, Pa., March 16, 1886.
DR. ELIJAH SUELL, son of John and Demaris Suell, was born in Sanford, N. Y., in 1825. At the age of nineteen he came to Auburn Centre; read medicine with Dr. E. W. Pitts, an eclectic practitioner of Elmira, N. Y., and commenced practice at Auburn Four Corners in 1851. In 1855 he removed to Le Raysville, Pa., and thenee in 1859, to Grangerville, this county, where he practiced more than twenty years. In 1881, he removed to a farm in Jessup township, where he now resides. In July, 1850, he mar- ried Betsey D. Ely, of Brooklyn, and they have four sons and four daughters, all living. He has served three years as road commissioner, thrce terms as school director, eighteen years as trustee of Rush Methodist Episcopal Church, and nine years as local elder of the same denomination.
PATRICK F. GRIFFIN, M.D., a native of Honesdale, Pa., and graduate of Jefferson Medical College in 1886, has located at Forest City, Susquehanna County, Pa.
DR. WILLIAM JOHN MCCAUSLAND, son of Robert and Caroline K. McCausland, was born at Gorton, Tyrone County, Ireland, in 1844. When about three years of age his parents re- moved to Toronto, U. C. In 1863 he married Agnes Law, of Woodstock, Canada. They had two sons and three daughters. The doctor's father gave him excellent advantages for his preliminary education. He pursued his medical studies with physicians in Woodstock, Canada, attending lectures at Victoria University, To- ronto; removed to Providence, Pa., in January, 1872, and taught school there (meanwhile pur- suing his medical studies) until June, 1877, when he located at Montrose, and practiced there until his death, in 1886.
GEORGE N. HALL, M.D., graduate of Syra- cuse University, N. Y., joined the Susquehanna County Medical Society October 14, 1884. He practiced a year or two at East New Milford, and tlience removed to Binghamton, his present residenee.
DENNIS WESLEY STURDEVANT, M.D., was
born at Scranton, Pa ; received the degree of M.D. at the University of Vermont, 1884; located at Lynn, this county, 1885, and re- moved to Laceyville, 1886.
ABRAHAM LEWIS BAUGHNER, M.D., was born at Tamanend, Pa., in 1856 ; pursued his studies at Pleasantville Collegiate Institute, Ohio, Pennsylvania State Normal School, National University, Ohio, and the University of Michigan, and completed a full course in the Medical Department of the latter institution in 1885, receiving the degrees of B.S. and M.D .; practiced in the coal-mining region in the southern part of Pennsylvania, and located at Lynn, Susquehanna County, Pa., October, 1886.
DR. RUFUS THAYER, son of Rufus and Mary Niles Thayer, of Massachusetts, was born in Lebanon, N. Y., 1820. He read medicine with Dr. Van Fleet, of Hamilton, N. Y ; at- tended lectures at Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College, Olio, and graduated there in 1841 ; practiced at Smithville Flats, N. Y., five years, when he removed to Montrose in 1846, and has lived there most of the time since. After resid- ing several years at Hopbottom, he returned to Montrose in the spring of 1887.
He married Joanna G. Tarbell, of Smith- ville Flats, in 1842. She died in 1859. Her son Eugene and daughter Sybil (wife of E. L. Weeks, of Binghamton, N. Y.) survive her. In 1870 he married H. Selina Bush.
JOHN GILBERT WOODHOUSE, M.D., son of John and Sally Burch Woodhouse, was born in Dimock township in 1820; attended school at Dimock and liad some experience as a teacher; read medicine with Dr. E. Patrick, of Montrose ; attended lectures at Pennsyl- vania Medical College in 1847, '48, '49, gradu- ating there in the latter year. He at once lo- cated at Springville, and practiced three years with Dr. I. B. Lathrop. He removed to Laceyville, Pa., in 1852, and died there 1871. He married Miss Angeline Keeney in 1861, and she died in 1866. Their only child, a daughter, survives them.
DR. URIAH (?) LEWIS came to New Milford about 1833 with wife and three children. He was eccentric, and after four or five years' prac- tice he went away.
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DR. GEORGE D. KIMBALL, son of Anson M. and Ann F. (Hovey) Kimball, was born in Windham County, Conn., 1834 ; studied with Dr. Tarbox, Berkshire, N. Y .; was a farmer and teacher several years; graduated at Ec- lectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1881 ; settled at South Gibson first, when he removed to New Milford in 1886 ; married Alma, daughter of Dr. L. W. Bingham.
EDWIN ALISON BUTTERFIELD, M.D., youngest child of Joseph and Sally Butterfield, was born in South Bridgewater in 1823, and died at the same place in 1851; read medi- cine with Dr. E. S. Park, of Montrose; at- tended one course of lectures at Berkshire Med- ical College, Massachusetts, and another in Kentucky, where he received the degree of M.D. in 1847. His residence in Kentucky was at Maysville. He married a lady of that place, who survived him. He was uncle of Dr. Edwin S. Butterfield.
EDWIN STONE BUTTERFIELD, A.B., M.D., son of Benjamin Alanson and Julia Stone Butterfield, was born in Bridgewater, 1840; early education at Montrose Academy ; entered Yale College in 1863 and graduated in 1867; read law with Judge Israel S. Spencer, of Syracuse, N. Y., and practiced in that city : attended three full courses of lec- tures at Medical College of Syracuse Univer- sity, graduating in 1887 ; commenced practice at Susquehanna Mineral Springs, in Rush township.
MORGAN L. MILLER, M.D., son of David and Edney Loder Miller, was born at Strouds- burg, Pa., in 1857; received his education at Stroudsburg and Monroe Collegiate Institute; read medicine with Dr. N. G. Lesh, of Strouds- burg ; attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania in 1879, '80, '81, '82, graduating in the latter year. In October following he located at Lanesboro', Pa., his present residence. In 1883 he married Nellie E., daughter of David Taylor, of the same place. He joined the Susquehanna County Medical Society in 1887.
DR. FREDERICK DOUGLAS BREWSTER, son of Horace and Augustus Brewster, was born in Bridgewater, 1850; received his education at
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