History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 33

Author: Bradsby, H. C. (Henry C.)
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Chicago, S. B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1340

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Mckean, H. B. 1855

Sanderson, George 1840

Montanye, Geo. DeLa. 1857

Scott, Wilson. 1841

Smith, Elhanan. 1842

Saxton, Fredrick 1843

Smith, Francis. 1844

Mason, Gordon F 1875

Myer, Thos. E 1877

1877

Morgan, Adelbert

Stevens, N. Miller.

1849

Mercur, James W 1879

Siebensck, James J

1857

Morgan, Albert 1878

Myer, Thos. E.

1877

Mills, Edward, Jr

1878

Marsh, H. F. 1882

Morrow, John P

1886

McGovern, Wm

1882

Noble, Silas. 1835

Sickler, Harvey

1875

Nichols, F. M 1873

Noble, Orrin T.

1874

Overton, Edward. 1816

Patton, William 1818

Stevens, O. D.

1872

Payne, H. 1830

Pettibone, Harvey 1832

Pierce, Stephen. . 1832

Tyler, Hugh. 1847

Purple, Norman H. 1833

Truesdale, L. M. 1851

Patrick, H. W. 1838

Patrick, G. G. 1841

Tozer, Ralph 1853

Pierce, L. H. . 1842

Pierce. James E.

1844

Platt, Orville H. 1850

Patrick, Edward L. 1860

Peet, Henry 1863

Peck, William A. 1864

Welles, C. F.

Williston, Henry 1818

Watkins, Wm. 1828

Wilmot, David. 1829

Woodword, G. W. 1834

Ward, Christopher L.

1837

Williston. L. P. 1837

Wilcox, Hutchins T 1840

Wattles, Morris S.

1844

Wilcox, 1844

1844

Reeve, J. B. 1851

Ross, Franklin C .1859

Watkins, Guy H.

1853

Ryan, Thomas 1861

Redfield, A. A 1877

Rockwell, H. H. 1878

Scott David.

1813

Stewart, A. C. 1813

Strong, S. G. 1818

Sturdevant, E. W. 1829

The following is a list of the members of the Bradford county bar now in practice, arranged according to seniority of admission :

H. C. Baird September 9, 1842

E. B. Parsons . February 7, 1849

N. C. Elsbree February 8, 1849

Wm. T. Davies September 6, 1861

Delos Rockwell.

February 6, 1862

John W. Mix.

. December 7, 1863

John N. Califf

. May 2, 1864

Edward Overton, Jr May 3, 1858

Benj. M. Peck. September 3, 1860

James Wood. .September 3, 1860

1849

Willard, W. W.

1858

Willard, Chas. F 1859

Williams, H. N. 1859

Watkins, G. M .. 1868

Williams, John G

1882

Walker, Edward 1882

Peck, W. H.

1847

Parsons, Eli B. 1849

Phinney, J. F. 1882

Piollet, Victor E., Jr. 1882

Richards, J. T. 1840

Thompson, R. J. 1871

Thompson, William H. 1869

Talbot, D. Smith 1872

Tozer, J. S. 1872

Thompson, Edward A. 1880 1813

Palmer, King W 1879

Payne, S. R. 1864

Patrick, F. G 1868

Picketts A. 1874

Porter, Frank S.

1876

Stroud, Geo. D.

1876

Smith, D. W. 1872

Sherwood, Edmund 1879

Sittser, John A ..

1874

Sanderson, John F 1874

Smith, C. 1875

Scouten, John G. 1879

Thomas, Hiram 1833

Todd, Thomas 1850

Shaw, J. H. 1869

Stone, Judson W 1871

Scott, W. G.

Smead, Thomas 1844

1845

McCullum, A. H.

1878

Mercur, Charles 1861

Morrison, S. G. 1871

Mitchell, S. N .. 1872

Sherwood, Julius 1844

Wm. Foyle.

February 16, 1870

H. J. Madill. May 8, 1851

D'A. Overton

. February 8, 1853

I. N. Evans .February 8, 1853

NAME. ADMITTED.

Wells, Thomas

Webb, Henry G.

Tutton, Geo. S. 1852

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D. C. De Witt .. .December 5, 1870

H. F. Maynard.

.December 14, 1871

Henry Streeter. February 19, 1872

Isaiah McPherson. May 6, 1872

S. W. Little. May 5, 1873

J. F. Shoemaker September 1, 1873

W. E. Chilson. . March 27, 1874

A. C. Fanning. September 21, 1874

J. A. Wilt. February 17, 1875

R. A. Mercur. May 3, 1875

William Maxwell. May 3, 1875

William Little. September 20, 1875

E. J. Angle. .December 15, 1876

L. M. Hall. May 16, 1877

W. J. Young May 16, 1877

Arthur Head May 16, 1877

Chas. M. Hall May 16, 1877

James H. Codding February 21, 1879

Sam W. Buck May 8, 1879

John W. Codding September 5, 1879

J. C. Horton February 11, 1880

M. E. Lilley May 5, 1880

W. C. Sechrist December 6, 1880

Eugene A. Thompson. . December 6, 1880

E. J. Cleveland .December 7, 1880

H. F. Johnson .December 5, 1881

W. C. Douglas . . May 17, 1882

J. T. McCollom. September 5, 1882

Chas. E. Bullock.

February 12, 1884

Jas. H. Webb.

.September 19, 1885

Julius T. Corbin September 11, 1886

R. H. Williams February 7, 1887

E. Langdon Hart. . September 15, 1887

W. E. Lane. September 17, 1887

Harry P. Corser.

May 6, 1889

Benj. Kuykendall, J

May 6, 1889

John C. Ingham.

May 6, 1889

Warren W. Johnson. . August 27, 1889

Louis T. Hoyt.

September 11, 1889

F. E. Beers.

.May 12, 1890

Lee Brooks.

September 10, 1890

H. K. Mitchell September 10, 1890

Stephen H. Smith

May 15, 1891

In other words there are fifty-seven attorneys now in the practice in the county.

CHAPTER XVIII.

PHYSICIANS.

EARLY PRACTICE OF MEDICINE-THE OLD-TIME HEROICS -- THE ANCIENT HOODOO, CHARMS, BLOOD-LETTING AND HOT WATER -- CALOMEL AND SALIVATION -- LICENSE TO PRACTICE -- HOMEOPATHY -- MEDICAL SOCIETY -PRESENT OFFICERS-LIST OF REGISTERED PRACTITIONERS-ETC.

E VERY civilization has its age of medical practice-periods that to many of the poor victims, could they revisit the glimpses of the moon, would, no doubt, emphatically pronounce episodes in their particular lives. The hoodoo doctors were, as a race, consummate humbugs, and tortured often with no higher purpose than that of pelf. Some of them honestly believed in their occult power to exorcise witches and disease, and sold their charms and horrid decoctions in the grim faith that they were inspired by supernatural wisdom. The tenacity with which a superstition will cling to a people is seen in the faith an ignorant negro will to-day place in a rabbit's foot, or the faith in the power over life and death of the reeking midnight ceremonies of the hoodoo. After hundreds of years' contact with the whites, from generation to generation, have been transmitted, in form but slightly modified in all that time, the rank superstitions to which they were born in the jungles of Africa.

Apparently the most tenacious superstitions of all cling to the practice of medicine-curing diseases, and especially here it is that

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ignorance driven from one stronghold, bobs up serenely in another. In the slow evolution of the science of curing the ills that flesh is heir to, these superstitions find their way into the books and schools, and are sifted down through the centuries. The books and schools of medicine were loath, it seems, to reach the realization that the science of medicine is an evolution; a bold experiment always, and there is little or no authority of precedent in the case. The schools too much refer to the ancients, with that curious ingrained faith, generally denied, but often lingering, that the old times were the good times, and that there was once in the world the Golden Age, whereas, if you could locate that persistent fiction, you would find the goodness and wisdom of that period were wretched cannibals or clouted wild men. If you could only read a real book of medicine, published three hundred years ago, it would surely tend to weaken your faith in even very old men of your own time.

A very modern thing is the licensing of doctors-lawyers were shrewd enough to protect their guild many centuries ago, but until lately a quack, or even a hoodoo doctor, if he could only get the patients, had the same right to practice as the graduate of the most ancient university. Doctors were often given to hang their diplomas, in Latin on fair parchment, on their office walls, as perhaps an induce- ment and inspirer of confidence to the afflicted. The race in the line of patients was not always to the graduate. The quack advertised his goods and wares, and often waxed rich and owned houses and blocks, while the poor graduate, covered with Latin diplomas, starved in his dreary garret. The State has joined hands in these modern times with the profession, and the public health is officially watched over. The next step naturally would be to make official doctors, and thus add a splendid retinue to the list of official patronage. Such a proposition, absurd as it would be, no doubt would find eager 'advocates, and in conventions and on election days we would see duplicated the late scenes in Ireland, where church pastors and shillalah warmed up the vicinity of every voting booth. But it should not be forgotten that there are many arguments for the appointment in our cities of meat inspectors, deemed essential to the welfare of the community in secur- ing healthy food, whether tenderloins or neck.

In the story of Gil Blas is a biting sarcasm on the ancient practice of medicine. It is there laid down that the secret of the whole science is in " hot water and bleeding." If the patient got well it was science that cured him ; if he died, it was plain that more blood-letting and hot water would have saved him. Nothing could be plainer or simpler, and nothing could exceed the people's faith and awe of the eminent practitioners. The very simplicity of the science added immeasurably to its profundity, and vested it with a deep superstition and reverence in the common mind. Don Quixote was a death-blow to ancient Knight Errants, but Gil Blas was hardly more than grist to the hopper of the medical quacks.

The respective States have passed license laws for doctors, but, of necessity, this curious proviso generally found its way in the act : Every physician who had been regularly in the practice a certain number of years, was by virtue thereof to be considered authorized to

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practice. Immediately followed the curious fact that the State was protecting a gang of ignorant quacks, equally with the college gradu- ates. Where, before, the graduate could show his diplomas, now the impostor could show the law, a far stronger authority than any college could grant. To this the statesman could answer : You petitioned us in the name of protecting community, and we did the best we could.

Granting licenses is a growing institution, but after all it is a two- edged sword. The pretext for enacting the law is, to the common mind, fair and unanswerable, even if its actual practice is sometimes a boomerang to its ablest advocates. The people will sleep upon their rights whenever the State undertakes to guard them. An enter- prising butcher, in a Western town, offered the town council $500 for an authorized license to sell meat. With an open, free market, where the farmers could come in their wagons and peddle meats, the butcher was getting rich. Not long after his offer was rejected the word passed around that he had purchased and beefed a diseased animal. Customers passed by his doors then, and in a brief time he was a bankrupt and out of business .. In the same town lived a physician who was a several-times graduate, and experienced in the sick room ; a cultured man, and justly eminent in the profession. There, too, lived a coarse, illiterate, ignorant woman, but cunning, who from scrubbing began nursing, and finally doctoring the sick, and growing bolder and bolder, and imposing on the ignorant until the physician was finally outraged by the request to a consultation with this female fraud. Thereupon, he went to work and never rested until the State had enacted a physician's license law. It provided that all who had been ten years consecutively in practice, without regard, should be considered licensed. The old woman easily made out her case, and lo! the doctor had hit himself and helped her immensely -- in the law they stood exactly equal, and now her new and glaring doctor's sign swings in the wind near where once was the doctor's modest one simply indicating the place of his office. Theory and practice in law-making are often distinct things, and ancient precedent as a rule, is a poor doctor.

Plenty of men living can tell you of the great changes in the prac- tice of medicine that have come in the past fifty years. Within that time the brutal practice of deliberately salivating patients has passed away. It was cruel and barbarous in the extreme. In later time than that has mostly disappeared the intolerable idea that patients must be denied everything they craved, and to see a poor fever-victim burning and willing to die for a draught of cold water, when he was offered warm elm or toast water only; bled, blistered and gorged with calomel and jalap, here were simply tortures that would pale the lights of the evil hour of the dreadful Inquisition. The modern and ancient treatment of the insane is a distinct finger mark in the highway of civilization. Better food, better ventilation and better drainage have contributed their share to the average lengthening of life, that is the greatest feature that marks the past century. Much of this we owe to the men who have studied the subject of medicine and who have striven to make a science of the curing of diseases and alleviating the suffer-

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ings of mankind. The physician should, and doubtless will in time, take his place as among the greatest and best of men. He will fill the open niche some day, and reverse this dreary heathenism that the "great" man is he who has butchered most of his fellow-men and not he who has saved most from disease and suffering. That woman strong and great enough to reform the dress of her sister from the pres- ent barbarisms and intolerable outrages, on not only " the human form divine," but the health and lives of posterity, should be crowned with supreme honors. The good physician should here find an inviting field to throw his influence in the aid of this noble work, so heroically being pushed by a few of our splendid women of the day.

The names of the first pioneer physicians are generally given in the different township histories. In 1847 a change in the prevalent ideas of treatment, as well as medicines, was impending. The busy Thomp- sonian with his " vegetable yarbs," teas and corn sweats was loosened upon the land. He sniffed his defiance at "Mercury," and the pill war was on. Patients would rebel, drink cold water, and in spite of the books get well. Then sometimes the doctors of all "faiths" were guilty of the indiscretion, in times of much sickness, of neglecting wholly certain poor patients, and these would violate all sense of decency and show a better rate of recovery than those doctored the most. The " regulars " were not dumb nor blind, but saw these things, and adopted the latest discoveries forced upon thein, and to-day, with sixty thousand people, there is but a small per cent of the calomel now used that there was when the total population was less than six thou- sand, and the lancet, hammer, and chisel and burning irons are since given over to the veterinary surgeons-hardly a fair deal for the poor faithful horse.

In 1847 about twenty physicians of the county met at the court- house for purpose of forming an association; Dr. Samuel Huston being elected president, and Dr. Alexander Madill, secretary. Two or three meetings were held, and one was appointed at Troy, but Drs. Madill and Bliss were the only ones present, and the association now took a rest of two years. In 1849 a meeting convened at the "Ward House," Towanda-nine members. This required that members should be graduates, or licensed by some medical board, or in honorable practice fifteen years. This society was in active organization twenty nine years, and on its roll of membership were nearly all the "regulars " in the county. Dr. G. F. Horton of this body was president of the State Society in 1862; he made a geological report and map of the State in 1858. About the same time Dr. E. H. Mason made a report of the hydrography of the State.

One of the earliest physicians of note in the county was Stephen Hopkins, of Tioga Point (Athens), who settled there in the summer of 1790. He soon became a noted physician ; built the first frame house in Athens. He died March 29, 1841; his widow, Jemima (Lindsley), died August 16, 1830.

"Dr. Adonijah Warner arrived and located in Athens in 1792, and at once formed a partnership with Dr. Hopkins, who was there when he came; Dr. Warner remained in Athens five years, and then removed

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to Sheshequin and taught school, and provided in his contract for the privilege of visiting patients, selling his practice. He had carried all the drugs and potions he had in his materia medica with him through the wilderness from Philadelphia. Dr. Warner married Nancy Means of Towanda, in 1798, in Wysox, where he died in 1846, aged eighty- three."

Dr. Amos Prentice came and located in Athens in 1797. His house and residence were on Cayuta creek. He died July 19, 1805.

Dr. Spring came to Athens early in the century-married a sister of John Shepard-widow Grant.

Dr. Thomas T. Huston was a practicing physician in Athens forty- five years. His father was a lieutenant in the navy during the Revo- Intion. A brother was Judge Charles Huston.

Dr. Dorman was the first in Wysox. He left there in 1792.

Dr. Adonijah Warner succeeded Dorman in Wysox, and settled the place of Robert Lanning.

Dr. Nathan Scoville was an early practitioner in Wyalusing. Dr. Daniel Baker was for a long time the most prominent physician of the place.

Homeopathy -Dr. Silas E. Shepard was probably the first of this school in the county. He was a preacher ; settled in Troy in 1828, and took up the practice of medicine, and when he removed to New York, turned his patients over to his brother, Dr. Samuel W. Shepard, who successfully practiced until quite recently, and is now mostly retired ; considers himself wholly so, but occasionally prescribes for some old friends.

Dr. Leonard Pratt, of Towanda, still in the harness, commenced the practice here in 1846. Remained in Towanda seven years, and removed to Chicago.

Dr. Pratt's father-in-law, Dr. Belding (old school), was practicing in Le Raysville in the " forties."

Dr. J. L. Corbin, of Athens, was in Towanda with Dr. Leonard Pratt ; removed to his present residence in Athens.

Dr. Nebediah Smith began the practice of homeopathy here in 1848.

Dr. D. S. Pratt graduated at Philadelphia (old school). Located in Towanda 1851, but commenced the practice here with his brother, of homeopathy, and is still one of the leading physicians of the county.

In 1860 the leading physicians of all schools in the county were : G. F. Horton. John E. Ingham, Theseus Barnes, E. H. Mason, Theodore L. Pratt, D. T. Abel, David Codding, Dr. Gorham, Kinney, of Rome, A. R. Axtell, George H. Morgan, Charles R. Ladd, Alfred Parsons, Edward Mills, William Claggett, Benj. DeWitt, Horace P. Moody, Volney Homet, E. G. Tracy, H. S. Cooper. D. N. and F. G. Newton.

In 1880 the law required physicians in practice to register in the recorder's office, name, date of graduation or commencement of prac- tice. The list appearing on the records is as follows :

Allen, Omaso, H., Monroe township,. Armstrong, Addison A., Austinville .. 1883

Ayers, Sherman E., Philadelphia . .. 1884 Allen, Ezra P., Athens, .1847

Axtell, Allen K., Troy. .1843

Bartlett, H. A., Sugar Run.

Barrett, J. W., Orwell 1874

Anderson, Manton E., Sayre. 1880 Allen, William E., Smithfield. 1880

Brown, F. W., Athens. 1874

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Badger, S. W., Athens. 1873

Beidleman, Addisou, Sheshequin.

Brooks, R. W., Canton .1873

Bush, Horace, Wyalusing.

.1875

Bishop, Stephen C., Wysox townahip Bowers, Jeremiah K., Reading, Pa, .. 1873 Beers, James Lewis, Sayre. 1880

Beach, Lewis L., Springfield.

Beach, Chas. A., Troy Boro. .1883

Beach, R. Belle, Troy .. 1883

Beach, Eliza J., Waverly, N. Y ..

1876

Hillis, Wm. J., Barclay.

1858

Blackwell, Clarence H., Granville

Centre .

1884

Barker, Perley N., Troy.

1887

Byron, Lawrence, Barclay

1886

Hooper, Elizabeth M., Elmira, N. Y.1883

Blair, A. Stryker, Ulster.

1882

Holcomb, Guy C., Ulster.

1887

Bancroft, A. A., Towanda .

1869

Codding, David S., LeRayaville.

Harshbarger, W. F., New Albany. .. 1881

Holcomb, John T., Athens

1881

Hammond, Charles M., Bentley Creek 1885

Haines, John F., Le Roy

.1888

Cloverdale, Helen M., Towanda Boro. Carpenter, P. S., Austinville .. 1875

Corbin, J. L., Athens.

1874

Conklin, Gustavius, Orwell.

1862

Cory, J. H., Springfield.

1878

Clagett, W. L., Standing Stone 1874

Cole, C. H., Sheshequin. 1849

Cowell, S. S., Smithfield.

Chilson, R. R., Ridgebury, Twp.

1876

Cole, J. Howard, Gillett

1854

Cleveland, J. E., Canton.

Corey, Wm., Springfield

Carrier, C. W., West Burlington Twp. 1862

Cogswell, M. J., Tuscarora.

1866

Corr, Jno., Towanda.

Codding, Chas. L., Towanda. 1883

Case, George M .. Sylvania. .

.1884

Clark, Byron, Washington, Washing-

ton Co

1880

Cowell, Edward M., Smithfield.

1885

Chamberlain, John W., Wyalusing. . 1886

Colt, Samuel F., Wysox township.

Comstock, Gatia S., Grover,. 1874

Champlin, Henry W., Towanda.

1881

Cemens, Henry S., Allentown, Pa ... 1861

Cheney, Nelson, Jamestown, N. Y ... 1868

Dare, Chas. V., Troy

1854

Davison, James, Canton 1856

Denvers, Hattie O., Towanda

Dusenbury, C. S., Le Raysville 1865

Dickerson, Mahlon D., Milan

Divis, Robert G., Athens 1882

Devyer, Chas. S., Springfield.

1888

Eakins, Emory A., Chicago, Ill

.1869

Everitt, E. A., Burlington ..

1856

Everett, John E., Burlington

1887

Foster, Emeline M., Towanda

Frisbie W. L., Orwell. 1869

Furman, John M., Terry.

Fitch, H. Le Ray, Wyalusing.

1882

Fanekner, James N., Williamsport,

1875

Gamble, Thos. A., East Troy

1873

Griffith, Wm. P., Towanda.

1881

Gray. T. D., Sylvania.

1875

Gregory, George W., Troy

1879

Gamble, M. D., East Troy

Granger, Lewis E., Le Raysville. . ... 1882 Glover, Henry A., Windham town- ship. .1882

Harshbarger, D. W., New Albany ..

Homet, Volney, Camptown. 1856

Holcomb, W. H., Le Roy townshlp. . Horton, George F., Terrytown. 1827

Hull, Waston C., Monroeton.

1861

Hubbard, D. G., Carbon Run.

1869

Hooker. Carlton C., Alba.

Hopkins, Chas. F., Monroe.

1884

Haines, Chas. A., East Canton.

1880

Johnson, T. B., Towanda.

1868

Johnson, Charles H., Barclay ..

.1873

Junk, William A., Wilmot township.

Judson, Azariah, Litchfield.

1845

Jones, Lorenzo A., Terry.

1872

James, C. W., Towanda.

1862

Kiersted, Charles F., South Creek

township.

1872

Keyea, Francia W., Orcutt Creek.

Knapp, C. B., Stevensville.

1868

Knapp, H. L., Windham. 1860

Kilborn, H. B., Franklin

Kline, Effenger R., Sayre .. 1882

Kinsman, Hiram T., Smithfield.

Kinsman, Hiram T., East Smithfield.1887

Ladd, Charles K., Towanda.

1877

Lyman, J. W., Towanda.

.1849

Lewis, W. S., Canton.

1873

Lenard, Volney, Springfield.

1879

Langhead, J., Gillett ..

1854

Lyon, W. D., Franklin.

Lewis, Frank B., Athens.

1884

Lantz, Leater R., Franklin

1879

La Plant, Hiram D., Sayre.

1891

Morse, Levi, Litchfield. .

1868

McLachlan, John, Granville town-

ship.

1879

Mingos, Leonard M., Towanda.

1878

Montanve, Lester D., Towanda

1861

Madill, F. F., Wysox ..

Mack, C. W., Windham 1855

Murdock. Robert, Burlington.

1872

Moody, H. M., Smithfield.

1866

Morrow. F. G., Warren Centre

1872

Mills, Edward, Ulster

1839

Mott, Limes, Burlington

1830

Manley, L. Edward, Le Roy ...

1883

McAuliff, James, Barclay.

1883

Marshall, Sarah P., Sheshequin.

Mathews, Alexander L., Sugar Run. . 1882 McCreary, John H., Herrick .. .. 1866 Musgrow, Charles N., Austinville .. . 1879 Mercur, John D., Towanda ... . 1878

Morey, Edgar B., Waverly, N. Y .... 1889

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Moshier, James S., Sylvania. 1891

Moore, Jason H., Pittston, Pa. 1887

Newton, D. N., Towanda. 1848

Shepard, S. W., Troy

Newton, F. G .. Towanda. 1880

Scott, C. H., Sayre.

Nesbit, Andrew D., Stevensville. 1887

Olmstead, Edward M., Sayre. 1887

Payne, E. D., Towanda. 1857

Parsons, James W., Canton, Pa. 1880

Park, Ira R., Overton township. 1870

Pratt, D. S., Towanda. 1851

Payne, Chas. F., Troy

1866

Planck, C. H., Alhany .. 1869

Purdy, Nathan C., Grover. 1855

Peebles, J. M., Hammondton, N. J. . 1876 Pratt, C. Manville, Towanda.

Pratt, E. Lenord, Towanda

Quick, P. A., Wilmot. 1874

Rockwell, O. H., Monroe. 1873

Reed, Chas., Wysox ... 1880

Ransom, Wm. C., Sheshequin

Rice, William, Rome.

Roberts. Wm., Pike township

Reed, Miles E., Camptown ... 1883

Rosenbloom, Chas. A., Pittsburg, Pa.

Reichard, Noah W., Herrickville .... 1887

Rice. Frederick W., Rome. 1889 Struk, Solomer, Wyalusing

Smith, Cady. Alba.

1879

Scoville, D. C., Wyalusing.

Spalding, Julia H., Rome.

1877

Washburn, Silas F., Rome.

1865

Wilcox, W. B., LeRoy

1857

Medical Society Officers : - President, Rev. S. F. Colt; Vice-Presidents, A. S. Blair, C. N. Hammond ; Secretary, I. N. Schoonmaker; Treasurer, D. N. Newton; Censors, C. F. Stevens, W. F. Harshberger, T. B. Johnson, F. A. Thompson, W. L. Claggett.

CHAPTER XIX

NEWSPAPERS.

INTRODUCTORY-THE ARGUS-THE REPORTER-JOURNAL-THE REPUB- LICAN AND OTHER PROMINENT JOURNALS AND JOURNALISTS IN BRAD- FORD COUNTY.

"THE jolly knights of the "stick " and " editorial scissors " of Brad- ford county, sandwiched with the contingent of reportorial " Fabers," are a crew fit for gods to journey over the troubled sea of journalism with. Our "office cat " purringly remarks, and he is right too, that the country printing office is the greatest institution in the world. The Mecca of spring poets and sweet girl graduates, the best school that has ever taught ; the loadstone of budding genius ; and the merry trysting ground of as clever a set of fellows as ever went on an annual excursion.

There are thirteen live weekly papers in the county, besides a daily and weekly. They nest in Towanda, four of them-the Daily

Smith, L. B., Ulster

Schoonmaker, Irving, Ulster 1884 Strunk, Benj. F .. Wyalusing. 1883

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History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 33

Author: Bradsby, H. C. (Henry C.) Publication date: 1891 Publisher: Chicago, S. B. Nelson Number of Pages: 1340

Author: Bradsby, H. C. (Henry C.)
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Chicago, S. B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1340