Elisha Belcher was born in Lebanon, Conn., in 1757, and became surgeon's mate and surgeon iu the Eevolutionary army. Stationed at Greenwich, Conn., he made that place his residence after peace had been declared, and extended his practice across the State line into Westchester County. He educated many young men in the profession, including his sons Dr. William N. Belcher, of Sing Sing, and Dr. Elisha R. Belcher, of New York City. Four of his seven daughters married physicians -- the fourth becoming the wife of Dr. Stephen Fowler, of North Castle, and

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after his death the wife of Dr. Henry White, of Yorktown. Other daughters married Dr. Darius Mead, of Greenwich, Conn., Dr. David Palmer, of White Plains, and Dr. Bartow F. White,' of Somers, son of Dr. Ebenezer White. Dr. Elisha Belcher died in December, 1825, as he was approaching his sixtyninth year.

Dr. John Ingersoll, born about 1745 ; the place of his nativity is unknown ; came from the vicinity of Horseiieck prior to 1804, and settled three miles north of Yonkers, where he died of delirium tremens in August, 1827. Being the first physician about Yonkers, he had a practice which obliged him to ride from King's Bridge to the outskirts of White Plains, and he would encounter the darkest night and the most pitiless storm rather than neglect his duty at the bedside of a patient. Until inebriety conquered him he was fairly successful as a physician and was especially fiivored in obstetrical cases, but his surgery is recorded to have been very bungling -- probably because of a lack of training in that department.