J. as an old friend and preceptor, but not as a physician." For six years he was supervisor of North Salem ; in 1853 represented his district in the Legislature, and at the time of his death. May 28, 1856, was one of the committee for erecting new public buildings for the county.

Steven Archer was the son of John Archer, of Tarry town, where he was born September 9, 1803. He married Emeline Ascough, and after her death was married to Deborah Underbill. His children were Sarah, wife of William Macy, of New Y'ork ; Isaac; and Emma, wife of Dr. Joseph Hasbrouck. He died December 16, 1877.

Dr. Joshua W. Bowron, born at Washington, Dutchess County, in April, 1788, a pupil of Dr. Stephen Fowler, graduated at the Barclay Street College of Medicine, New York City. Hebegan practice nearSing Sing, but soon removed to New Castle to occupy the field vacated by the death of Dr. Fowler, which he, filled for nearly forty years. In 1848 and 1849 he was president of the Westchester County Medical Society. His labors were so enormous that when about sixtytwo years old he broke down under an apoplectic stroke, and died February 20, 1857.

Dr. Benjamin Bassett, born at Derby, Conn., December 6, 1784, was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, practiced at Yorktown from 1826 to 1829, and then settled at Peekskill, where he died March 21, 1858. He was president of the Westches-

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ter County Medical Society in 1846 and 1847, and in the latter year delivered an address " On the laws of epidemics as exhibited in those that had prevailed in the county the preceding twenty years." In 1831 he wrote a valuable treatise on " Epidemic Dysentery and Intermittent Fever," published in the New York Medical Journal for jNIuy of that year.