Having been inspired by a genuine love, with the requisite enthusias.m, for his profession, he gave it his undivided attention, and the whole
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force of his energies and talents were made subservient to it. He died at the age of sixty-eight years, having been blessed with a large family, which were carefully and respectably bred. One of his sons, having been thoroughly educated, became one of the most celebrated and accomplished divines in the New England States."
He commenced life in extreme poverty, and left his heirs an estate of nearly fifty thousand dollars.
Dr. Lyman Cook, of Cortlandtown, was an eminent and successful physician. He was chosen the delegate of the Westchester County Society, which he represented by attending the first meeting of the State Medical Society in 1807.
He engaged somewhat in politics, and was once elected to the office of high sheriff' of the county. He removed to one of the Western States, where he located as a physician.
Dr. Elias Quereau, of Yorktown, was born in the city of Xew York, and pursued his medical studies under Dr. Hugeford. Early in the Revolutionary War he married in the city of New York, where he engaged in practice for a short time.
Owing to the unsettled state of the country he frequently changed his residence and field of practice. Being a Royalist, he embarked for St. John's, with other refugees, but soon returned to his native State in consequence of the inclemency of the Canadian climate. He finally settled in Yorktown, in this county, which was the native place of his wife, where he continued to reside during the remainder of his life.