Biographies of Physicians of Bradford

DOCTOR AUBRY

Dr. Frederick Aubry, one of the early physicians in this town, a German by birth and education, claimed to have been a surgeon in the British army during the " Old French war," and to have dressed the wounds of the brave General Wolfe, who in 1759 fell at the siege of Quebec.  He was an expert fencer, and took pride in displaying his skill in the use of the sword. It is said he could with his sword strike out a pin from a man's shirt collar without injury to his throat. His temper was hasty and violent, but in its paroxysms not lasting. At one time, when he was having an arch laid, his wife came out to give her advice, which led to a violent altercation between them.  In his anger he caught up a brick and threw it at her, exclaiming as it went from his hand, "Dodge, Sally, my dear!" Being slack in regard to paying his debts, one of the traders at the village went to him with his store account for collection, when the, Doctor bitterly said, " You traders, when we go to your stores, are all aingels, but when ye want your pay ye are very deevils"   Of his professional skill there was quite a diversity of opinions, some thinking him a wonderful doctor, and others unwilling to employ him. He was severe in his condemnation of our native doctors, as men without knowledge or skill in their profession, which, of course, set them against him.  He was sometimes unreasonably exacting in his charges, as well as needlessly persevering in his visits; but now and then in his dealing with his Yankee employers found that he had " caught a Tartar." Some instances, quite amusing, are still remembered. The doctor having been once called in to see a sick man in the south part of the town, came of his own accord many times more. The patient having after a considerable time recovered, the doctor presented his bill for " visits, medicines and sun-dries" running up to an amount far beyond the man's expectation. He, however, taking it coolly, sat down and made out an account of various things which he had let the doctor have ; but finding himself far in the rear, he made up the deficiency with " sundries," and thus brought out an amount equivalent to the charge against him. The doctor, on looking at this account, instead of flying into a passion, as might have been expected, said, " Let's pass receipts! let's pass receipts!" and so the matter was easily adjusted.

On another occasion the doctor was called to attend to the case of a boy in a very suffering condition; a fly some time before having got into one of his ears and deposited there its eggs, a hateful progeny, giving the sufferer great distress, had been the result. The doctor, having ascertained the cause of the trouble, by a simple remedy, directly applied, effected a cure. The boy was soon well again, to the great joy of himself and family.  The father, on inquiring what would be the doctor's charge for this service, was told to his great astonishment that it would be one hundred dollars! which the old physician attempted to justify on the ground that the boy's life was worth more than a hundred dollars, and that he would have died if he had not thus by his medical skill given him. Remonstrance was of no avail. The father of the boy subsequently brought in his account, proposing to the doctor to look over and come to a settlement. This account was a very short one, for two bushels of wheat at fifty dollars a bushel, amounting to one hundred dollars.  The doctor on looking at it gravely, said, " I will dispute no man's account.   We will pass receipts." Dr. Aubry first settled in the part of the town called Goshen, but subsequently on a farm West of Wright's Mountain. He afterwards, about the year 1813, removed . with his children to Pennsylvania, and died there at an advanced age.

The above is from the recollection of several gentlemen who personally knew him.

DOCTOR CARPENTER

Dr. William S. Carpenter was a native of Moretown, Vt., born March 31, 1818. He studied his profession under the instruction of Dr. Sanborn, of Lyndon, and graduated at Dartmouth College as M. D. in the class of 1842.  He commenced medical practice here soon after, and continued with good success for more than ten years.  He married Miss Helen Louisa Ladd, a daughter of Mr. Austin Ladd, of Haverhill, N. H., where she was born December 7, 1825. They were married October 1, 1845.  They had but two children, both of whom died early.  The Doctor while here built a nice cottage on Main street, in or near the year 1850, the same which Dr. Carter now owns and occupies, and lived there during the remainder of his stay in Bradford. He removed to Chicago, and there settled May 1, 1854, with fair prospects.  He had, however, but fairly commenced practice there before his very estimable wife was taken dangerously sick, and on the 5th of June died, in the twenty-ninth year of her age. Mrs. Ladd, her good mother, died there soon after, and the Doctor himself died in the same city, August 31, 1855, in the thirty-eight year of his age. His remains, with those of his wife, were brought to Bradford for burial, their final resting place in the cemetery being designated by a marble obelisk.

DOCTOR CARTER

Dr. William H. Carter was a native of Newbury, born May 28, 1801. His father, Dea. William Carter, was a native of Kingston, N. H. He migrated to Topsham, Vt., soon after the close of the Revolutionary war, and was the third settler in that town. He subsequently removed to Newbury, and in the year 1806 to Bradford. William H. was the youngest of the family. He worked at farming, with only common school advantages for education, until the age of nineteen. He then attended Bradford Academy for some time, commencing with its first term, in. the spring of 1821. He there acquired sufficient knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages to enable him to enter with advantage on the study of medicine.  Being destitute of pecuniary help, he was obliged to rely on his own earnings to defray his expenses; obliged, also, to forego many advantages now generally enjoyed by medical students. His professional studies were pursued under the instruction of James Petrie, M. D., of Topsham, and Calvin Jewett, M. D., of Newbury. He attended medical lectures at Dartmouth College, and received there the degree of M. D. In 1827 he located himself in business at West Newbury, where for twenty-six years he had an increasing and successful practice. In 1853 he removed to Bradford village, and thence onward to this date, a period of over twenty years, his professional services have continued to be, and still are, in good demand. He has now been in medical practice for nearly forty-seven years. Doctor Carter married Miss Hannah H. Eastman, daughter of David Eastman, Esq., of Topsham. The doctor and his wife have for years been members of the Congregational church in this place. In 1829 they became, by profession, members of the Congregational church in Newbury. They have two daughters, Susan E., wife of Dr. A. A. Doty, of this village, and Jennie A., wife of Dr. Eugene L. Boothby, of Fairlee. Dr.  Carter's influence in society has been in all respects decidedly salutary.

Mrs. Boothby, daughter of Doctor Carter, died at the house of her father, September 18, 1874.

DOCTOR COLBY

Dr. Thomas Colby, a native of this town, was born in 1788.  He worked at farming in his youth, and his advantages for acquiring a good education were very limited. Being unable to pursue the business of agriculture, from poor health, he felt strongly inclined to try the medical profession, and after some effort at preparation entered on the study of medicine, and pursued it chiefly with Dr.  Wellman, of Piermont, N. H., and Dr. McKinstry, of Newbury. He commenced practice in this village in the year 1812.   In the autumn of 1815 he located himself on the Upper Plain, near the cemetery, and there continued in his professional business till near the time of his death, which occurred December 26, 1829. Dr. Colby was by many considered a skillful physician, especially in fevers, and for several years did a fair amount of business. He died at the age of forty-one. His wife was Eliza Kimball, daughter of Daniel Kimball, Esq., of this town. They had two daughters and a son, no one of whom is known to be living now.

DOCTOR CUSHING

Dr. Alvin M. Cushing was born at Burke, Caledonia county, Vt., September 28, 1829. He graduated from the Homoepathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, March 1, 1856, and located in Bradford directly after, in the month of May. He was the first to introduce Homoepathy into this town, and the first, as he says, to practice it exclusively in this County of Orange. He came a young man, a stranger to all, and, though strongly opposed by doctors, and many others, on account of this then new way of practice, yet, as Dr. Poole said, "believed in it and stuck to it," and was successful in gaining a large practice. His residence was in the same house which the writer of this now occupies. He married Miss Hannah Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. John Pearsons, then of Hartford, Vt., but formerly of Bradford. The doctor practiced here for nearly five years. In the autumn of 1866, while riding in the western part of this town, he met with an accident, injuring his spine so seriously that he was obliged to abandon his large practice for a while, and he removed to Lansingburg, N. Y. After about four years there, the failure of his wife's health compelled him to leave his pleasant home and lucrative practice there and seek a residence near the ocean. He finally settled in Lynn, Mass., where he at this date is understood to have an extensive practice. He has written several medical works which have been well received by the profession. Dr. Cushing and wife have three sons, and many reasons to be contented and happy.

DOCTOR A. A. DOTY AND FAMILY

A few words first in regard to his parentage. His father, Abner Doty, was a native of Rochester, Mass., and with his parents moved to East Montpelier, Vt., March 15, 18-, he being at that time six year of age. The mode of conveyance was by an ox team, and it took three weeks to perform the journey. Quite a contrast with railroad speed. In early manhood Abner Doty married Betsey Putnam, a direct descendant of General Israel Putnam, of historic renown. After the birth of two children, he moved his family to Elmore, in Lamoille County, then a sparsely settled town. He was promoted to the highest office of the town, for many years, and was kept in the performance of some official duty to the time of his death, which occurred in 1847.

His son, Dr. Abner A. Doty, was born in Elmore, March 15, 1828, and commenced the study of medicine in the Spring of 1851, with William H. Carter, M. D., then of Newbury, Vt, and graduated at Hanover, N. H. Medical College in 1854.   He commenced practice in Newbury, and continued there for two years, when he went to New York, where he spent some months in attending lectures, and at the hospitals, and then came to Bradford and commenced medical practice here in 1856: where for eighteen years he has devoted himself closely to his professional business, and found full employment. Although most of the time in delicate health, so entire has been his attention to his home practice that he has never, he remarks, left it for a day, except to visit sick friends abroad, or on account of his own sickness.

Soon after his settlement in Bradford, he united with the Methodist Episcopal church, and was chosen one of its Stewards, and has served in that capacity ever since.  He has also been for several years Chairman of the Committee of the Graded School in this village, embracing Bradford Academy.

As it regards the domestic relations of Doctor Doty, we remark that at the commencement of his practice he married Miss Susan Carter, daughter of Dr. W. H. Carter, a worthy lady, and they have had four children, all daughters, namely:

Jennie Kathrinne, born January 16, 1857.

Minnie, born July 29, 1859.   Died November 22,1872.

Susie Isabelle, born March 26, 1866.

Marion Gertrude, born April 24, 1872.

DOCTOR POOLE

As he was long here and extensively known, of him a somewhat more full account may be expected.  Dr. John Poole was born at Plainfield, N. H., February 22, 1792. Blessed with a firm physical constitution and good intellectual powers, he grew up to be an energetic, intelligent, and worthy young man. Having acquired a good academic education, and being inclined to the medical profession, he entered as a student the medical department of Dartmouth college, and having pursued a regular course, under the instruction of such men as Professors Muzzey, Perkins, and Dana, graduated with honor in 1817.

The next year, 1818, at the age of twenty-six years, he established himself as a physician and surgeon in Brad-ford, Vt., where he continued in the practice of his profession for fifty-one years, or within a few weeks of his decease, which occurred April 14, 1869, when he was a little over seventy-seven years of age. When he came here Dr. Arad Stebbins, who had long been the principal physician in the place, was drawing near to the close of his active life, and Dr. Poole, without any particular agreement or unpleasant collision, gradually became his well-received successor.

During the half century of his practice Dr. Poole performed a vast amount of professional business in this and the neighboring towns. Possessing firm health, being strictly temperate in all his habits, and .wholly devoted to his profession, he was habitually ready to go, when called, whether by day or night, and however uncomfortable the weather or the traveling might be. Whether he was to go with a fair prospect of compensation, or to attend on those who were known to be too poor ever to reward him for his services", made no difference in regard to his prompt attendance and persevering visitations. Whatever help he could afford the sick and suffering he was happy to render, and was, no doubt, quite as successful in his practice as the generality of physicians are. Many who have been carried by him through trying scenes of physical prostration and distress, still live to remember him with affectionate gratitude during the remnant of their days.

As the Doctor was accustomed to keep himself well-in-formed by the reading of the new publications in the line of his profession, and had acquired much knowledge by experience in the course of his long practice, he, perhaps rather insensibly to himself, became so firmly assured of his own ability and skill as a practitioner as to be rather intolerant of any person or thing that he viewed in the light of rivalry, or interference in any way with his customary business, and consequently was not apt to be on very good terms with other physicians, who thought they had as good a right as he to locate themselves here, and minister to such as might Call for their services. The Doctor was particularly disturbed by any departure from the old line of practice, and unsparing in his censures of everything which he denominated quackery. It gave him great dissatisfaction also to have any of his old friends turn away from him and patronize those whom he esteemed less worthy of their confidence. Being a man of rather excitable temperament, and of strong will, these views and feelings caused him much unhappiness, and not un-frequently proved very annoying to others. The fact is, physicians, like other professional and business men, while aiming to make themselves worthy of public confidence and encouragement, must-at all events should -be willing that the people, their old employers as well as others, should enjoy the privilege of acting according to their own choice in regard to giving or not giving them their patronage. When one's health and life are at stake he, if competent, and if not competent, his friends, must be left free to employ whatever medical counsel or means of cure they prefer, inasmuch as they are mainly concerned in the consequences. True merit will not fail in the long run to maintain its ground and respectability.  Dr. Poole was, not only in his profession but outside of it, a worthy and valuable citizen. Strictly temperate himself, he wished to see the cause of temperance promoted, in the use of the wisest and most efficient means.  The vulgar use of tobacco, and such like narcotics and stimulants, received from him no countenance. With the company of the vicious and profane he had no affinity; you would find him not walking in the way of sinners, or sitting in the seat of the scornful; but associating with those who were endeavoring to promote the interests of intelligence, morality, good order, and religion in society.  The doctor took a lively interest in the due education of children and young people, and wished to see the schools well conducted and prosperous. For some twenty-three years he had been clerk of the school district to which he, during the latter part of his life, belonged; and one dark evening, about two weeks before his decease, when his bed or an easy chair would seem to be the most suitable place for him, came out and attended an annual meeting of this sort, and was reappointed to his clerkship.  He had also acted as a Trustee of Bradford Academy for about thirty-six years, and for most of the time in some special official capacity. In the affairs of the religious society to which he belonged he was also an efficient member: and with faithfulness filled some official station for twenty-five years. During a considerable part of this time he performed the somewhat self-denying, but very important, service of collecting his pastor's salary, and thus securing to the people the permanent preaching of the gospel, with its attendant blessings. In these and various other ways he seemed to take real pleasure in doing good. He evidently wished to see the best interests of the community about him promoted, and was ready to do his part.

As it regards the domestic relations of Dr. Poole, it may be remarked that the wife of his youth, his only wife, was Mary Evans, with whom he was united in marriage May 27, 1821. She was a lady of pleasing personal appearance, devoted to home duties, but benevolent toward all, and a beloved member of the household of faith.  With several others, she united with the Congregational church here in the year 1831, and so continued to the close of life. She died away from home, at the house of her youngest daughter, near New York, August 19, 1861, at the age of sixty-five years. Her remains were brought here for interment. Dr. Poole and wife had eight children, of whom three died in infancy. Horace B a young man who had been engaged in the business of a druggist, died at the house of his father, September 17,1857, at the age of thirty-two years. Three daughters and one son remain. The eldest of these, Mary L., married A. G. Richardson, of California, and resides there. Her husband died a few months or weeks before her father. Julia S.  married Henry C. Bidwell, also of California, and there has her home. Cornelia Frances, the youngest daughter, was the wife of Wm. D. Skidmore, now deceased, and lives at Mount Vernon, near New York. Charles Carroll, having been preserved through many hardships and perils in the service of his country, was the only member of the family who had the privilege of ministering to his father in his last sickness, or of appearing as a mourner at his funeral, Mrs. Poole, his wife, being with him. He is by occupation a house carpenter. They now, 1874, reside in St.  Johnsbury.

Dr. Poole became united with the Congregational Church during the great revival which was here enjoyed in the beginning of the year 1837, and so continued. He was strictly evangelical in his sentiments ; took a deep interest, especially during the latter years of his life, in the Sabbath School, having charge of a class of intelligent men; he loved to attend social meet-ings ; and was, not only a diligent student of the holy Scriptures, but a man of prayer. For months, if not years, before his decease, he seemed to be deeply impressed by a conviction that he was a great sinner, who needed a great Savior; and on this theme he dwelt continually, with apparently the utmost seriousness. Hope generally prevailed that through Christ he should find forgiveness and salvation; but his hope at times was not without fear and trembling.   He said he wanted clearer evidence that he had been really created a new in righteousness and true holiness, and was indeed united to the blessed Savior by a living faith; that he must at all events cling to Him, and to Him alone, as the Lord his righteousness.  As he drew near to death he expressed good will towards all men, without exception; and deeply regretted that he had ever exhibited or felt any measure of a different spirit.

The Doctor was very tenacious of life. It was unpleasant to him to have his friends ever allude to his failing strength; he did not like to talk about death; he kept about as long as he possibly could; but at the time appointed all his powers, both physical and mental, gave way; and he passed quietly to that land from which no traveler returns.  We cannot doubt that, notwithstanding all those imperfections of which he was so painfully sensible, to him death has proved immense and eternal gain, and that he is now most fervently thankful to God who has given him the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord.

DOCTOR PUTNAM

Dr. Samuel Putnam was born in Salem, Mass., in 1782.  While he was young he came with his father and family to Vermont, and resided for some years in Topsham.  Samuel made good use of his limited advantages for acquiring an education, and studied the medical profession with Dr. Richard Huntley, of Topsham. He commenced practice in the town of Burke, in this State, where he remained but a few years, when he located himself in this town, near the south line of Newbury. He practiced about equally in the two towns, until the year 1816, when, his health failing, he moved into Newbury, and died there, of pulmonary consumption, in the summer of 1817, aged thirty-five years. His wife was Betsey Bailey, daughter of Colonel John Bailey, of Newbury. They had one son and one daughter, Samuel and Angelina.

DOCTOR ROGERS

Dr. John L. Rogers was born in Northfield, N. H., in 1803. He studied his profession with Dr. T. Haynes, of Hardwick, Vt., and commenced the practice of medicine at East Corinth, in May, 1839. In the year 1848 he moved to Bradford Center, where he continued in professional business for several years. His mode of practice was Eclectic, and he had patients, at different times, in most of the towns in Orange County. He removed from Bradford Center to Canaan, N. H., and at this writing is understood to be in successful business there.

DOCTOR STEBBINS

Dr. Arad Stebbins was born at Hinsdale, N. H., March 21, 1760. He studied medicine with Dr. Dickermond, of Brattleboro, Vt., and surgery with Dr. Goodhue, of Putney. Nathan Smith, subsequently Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Dartmouth College, was his fellow student. We have not the date of his commencing business in Bradford, but it was some time before 1790, as a town meeting was held that year at his house, and it is known that for some time after his coming here he boarded in the family of Dr. Andross, whose wife was his aunt. Dr. Stebbins was a sensible, affable, wide-awake, energetic man, and had an extensive medical practice here, for about thirty years.   He married Mary.  S. Kent, of Newbury, and had a family of one son and eight daughters. The doctor built a large, and for those days fine, house near the north end of this village, to be occupied, not only as a family residence, but for the accommodation of travelers and boarders, which after his decease was known as the Vermont House, and by successive proprietors kept as a hotel, till June 18, 1871, when, in the ownership of R. W. Chamberlin, it accidentally took fire and was consumed. A tine residence on the same spot is at this writing in progress of erection, under the care and at the expense of Mr. Harvey Nourse, of this place. Dr. Stebbins represented this town in the State Legislature of 1805. In the course of the first year of the writer's ministry here the doctor and his wife, on profession, became members of the Congregational church, and so continued during the remainder of their lives. One dark evening, while the doctor was walking homeward and alone, from the house of his father, where he had been attending a Library Society meeting, he had the misfortune to step off the side of a bridge across a ravine, since filled with earth, near the residence of J.  A. Hardy, by which fall he received a concussion of the brain which put an end to his medical practice, and from which he never entirely recovered. He lived, however, in a state of quiet feebleness, both of body and mind, for some ten or eleven years longer, and died April 30, 1828, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. Mrs. Stebbins died October 29, 1835, in her sixty-ninth year.

CHILDREN OF DR. STEBBINS AND WIFE

Their first daughter, Polly, died young, but all the others lived to years of maturity. Mary married Alfred Corliss, for many years a harness maker, and also Postmaster in this village, and had three sons and two daughters.  Lucy married Theodore Dame, of Orford, N. H.; and had a son and two daughters. Betsey married Nicholas W.  Ayer, of this town, and in her widowhood, when drawing nigh to death, made several valuable bequests to various individuals and religious societies, one of five hundred dollars to the Congregational church here, the annual interest to be applied towards the support of public worship. Sophia remained and died single. The four sisters last named, and also their youngest sister, Harriet, were all members of the same church here to which their parents had belonged. Louisa married a Mr. Moulton, and Harriet, Mr. Ward, of Plymouth, N. H. All these have deceased, with the exception of Mrs. Dame, who, in widowhood, is living (1874) with her son in Newbury, Vt.

Arad Stebbins, Jr., the doctor's only son, married Eliza Stoddard, of Fairlee, remained in this village, and had a family of several children. He was esteemed an intelligent, capable, and honest man, and as such was much employed in public business. He had been Overseer of the Poor and a Justice of the Peace, in Bradford, for several years; had represented the town in the State Legislature for five years; had filled the office of Judge of Probate for this district for one term ; and had been much employed in the settlement of estates, and as guardian of orphan children, in which capacities he seems to have given general satisfaction. He had a competency, loved his family, was free from pecuniary or other embarrassments from without; but his health at length began to fail, his mental powers also, a melancholy loom came over him, and he seems to have been overwhelmed with the tear that he might become permanently insane! and in this state of mind he, on a certain sad day, retired to his barn and terminated his life by deliberately hanging himself. This mournful event occurred January, 1862, he then being a little over fifty-nine years of age, and cast a deep gloom over this entire community.   The widow and her children subsequently removed to Summerville, Mass.

DOCTOR WARDEN AND FAMILY

Jonathan Warden was a native of Greenock, Scotland, born September 30, 1795. His wife, whose maiden name was Joanna Ferguson, was also a native of the same country, born November 15, 1798. They were united in marriage January 15, 1827, and emigrated to this country in 1842, arriving September 1st. They spent their first winter at Ryegate, Vt. They removed thence to Haverhill, N. H., in the spring of 1843, and there remained until the autumn of 1848, when they came to Bradford, Vt., and here remained during the remainder of their abode on earth. Mr. Warden, though not a practicing physician, was universally styled Doctor, as his principal occupation consisted in preparing and selling medicines, which by many families and individuals were highly appreciated, and somewhat extensively used in this vicinity.  Both the doctor and his wife were much esteemed by those who knew them. Mrs. Warden died July 24, 1856, in the fifty-eighth year of her age; and his decease occurred June 3, 1869, in his seventy-fourth year. Their remains repose side by side in Bradford cemetery.

They had one daughter and two sons, all natives of  Scotland, namely:

1 Joanna, who grew up an amiable and good young lady, and September 28, 1872, became the wife of Mr.  Daniel Carpenter, of  St. Johnsbury, Vt., with whom she has there a pleasant home.

2 Peter Warden, learned the business of a watch-maker and jeweler, went South, and settled at Tallahassee, Florida; married there a Miss Gibson, had two children; in 1863 went, in feeble health, to Cuba, and died there November 13th of that year. A very worthy young man he was.

3 Joseph M. Warden, born 1840, November 23, became, like his brother, a watchmaker and jeweler, remained in Bradford, and has for years been diligently Engaged in his favorite business; also as a telegraphic operator; giving general satisfaction in both employments.  J. M. Warden, April 28, 1861, was united in marriage with Miss Fannie A. Flanders, daughter of Mr. Josiah Flanders, of Vershire. They have a desirable homestead on Pleasant street, in this village. Mr. and Mrs. Warden are members of the Congregational church here, as was their sister, Mrs. Carpenter, before her removal to St.  Johnsbury.

DOCTOR WHIPPLE

Thomas Whipple, M. D., was born in Hanover, N. H., in the year 1785. His father was a Baptist minister.  Thomas was thrown almost entirely on his own resources in his efforts to obtain an education, but, possessing a strong mind and resolute determination, he early acquired a good knowledge of English literature, and a valuable acquaintance with the Latin and Greek languages. He became a popular teacher, and for several winters taught the school here in Goshen district, consisting of nearly a hundred scholars, with great success. He attended the Medical Institution at Hanover, N. H., and received from Dartmouth College the degree of M. D., in the year 1814.  He commenced medical practice in the part of this town where he had been teaching, but soon after located himself at Wentworth, N. H., where he rose to distinction as a successful practitioner of medicine and surgery. He married Phebe Tabor, of this place, and was sent from the State of New Hampshire to Congress, where by his talents he gained notoriety. But, like many other men of ability and high promise, he gradually fell into habits of intemperance, and thereby did himself great injury. He died in the year 1835, aged fifty years.

DOCTOR WHITING

Dr. Jeremiah Whiting practiced medicine for a few years in Bradford. He resided in the part of the town called Goshen. He came here from New Bedford, Mass., or its vicinity, about the year 1798. He had a good preparatory education, and was well read in his professional studies. He was considered a man of good judgment, and a successful practitioner. He distinguished himself somewhat in the judicious treatment of scarlet fever, which prevailed, of a malignant type, at one time especially during his residence in Bradford. He left this town about the year 1807, and went into practice in the northern part of New York. His wife was a daughter of Deacon Sweet, of Bradford. Of his death we have no account.

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