Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.

He is a zealous advocate of the temperance cause and fearlessly supports its principles. At the formation of the Republican party in j 1854, he found its views coincident with his own, and has ever since been a prominent member of that organization. Fervid in his opposition to slavery, he i was a firm supporter of the Union in the war which | ended in the destruction of the …

THE BENCH AND BAR. CHARLES THORN CROMWELL. Mr. Cromwell is a descendant of the famous family whose history was for so many years identified with that of the British Empire. Among his ancestry are enrolled the names of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, .Secretary of State to Henry VIII., who was beheaded July 28, 1540 ; Sir Henry Cromwell, of Hinthinhrook, surnamed, for his …

He was appointed second lieutenant of artillery and was in command of a company at the battle of Plattsburg, where he also acted as quartermaster. His bravery won for him the respect and esteem of his superior officers, and he was brevetted first lieutenant as a reward of merit. Many flattering letters from the generals under whom he served, from time to time, are still in the …

Y., and remained with him two years, when, with two friends, he made a tour of Europe. He spent a year in most interesting and profitable diversion, and then returned to New York and was admitted to the bar. He opened an office in the city, where he remained for many years, building up for himself an extensive and lucrative practice. Twenty years ago he retired from business …

i He is a member of Christ Church (Episcopal) and j was formerly one of its vestrymen, having conlibuted largely toward its erection. He married Henrietta Amelia Brooks, daughter of Benjamin Brooks, of Bridgeport, Conn. She is a descendant of Colonel John Jones and Theophilus Eaton, first Governor of the colony of New Haven. There were three children, one of whom (the eldest …

After graduating at Yale College, in 1824, he was commissioned aid-de-camp toGovernor De Witt Clinton, with the title of colonel, which post he soon relinquished, and from 1826 spent four years in Europe, traveling extensively and pursuing legal studies in Edinburgh. I Upon his return he entered the office of Peter A, Jay, then a well-known lawyer in New York. For a number of …

I attentive observer of the great and philanthropic movements of the day and a most liberal supporter of every worthy cause whose claims were brought to his notice. ■ A man of noble impulses and clear convictions, he was no less decided in the rebuke of injustice and iniquity that in the approval of that which was good. The uprightness and elevation, the kindliness and …

He removed with his family to Scituate, in the colony of Massachusetts, in 1634. He was one of the commissioners to locate that town, and ' the first recorded conveyance of any of its soil was made to him. His brother Joseph was one of the merchant adventurers of Loudon who fitted out the " Mayflower." This Nathaniel Tilden married Hannah Bourne, one of whose sisters married a …

John Jones, one of the regicide judges of Charles the First, who is said to have married a sister of Oliver Cromwell and a cousin of John Hamden. The Governor's father, a farmer and merchant of New Lebanon, w'as a man of notable judgment and practical sense and the accepted oracle of the county upon all matters of public concern, while his opinion was also eagerly sought and …

Young and obscure as he then was, Presidents .lackson and Van Buren had few more effiective champions in this State of the great measures of their respective administrations than this stripling from New Lebanon. He was admitted to the bar in 1841. Four years before, and when only twenty-three years of age, he delivered a speech in Columbia County onthesubject of " Prices and …

O'Sullivan, founded the newspaper called the Daily News, by far the ablest morning journal that had up to that time been enlisted in the service of the Democratic party. Its success was immediate and complete, and to its efficiency was largely due the success of the Democratic ticket that year. As Mr. Tilden did not propose to enter into journalism as a career, and had …

In both of these bodies he was a conspicuous authority, and left a permanent impression upon the legislation of the year, and especially upon all the new constitutional provisions afl'ecting the finances of the State and the management of its system of canals. In this work he was associated, by personal and political sympath}^ most intimately with Governor Wright, Michael …

With an assiduity and a i concentration of energy which has characterized all the transactions of his life, he now gave himself up to his profession. It was not many years before he became as well known at the bar as he had before been known as a jiolitician. His business developed rapidly, and though he continued to take more or less interest in political mattei-s, they were …

Tilden was one, admission to their body upon equal terms with 'the delegates from other States, assigning as a reason that the convention which chose them had declared that the immunity from slavery contained in the Jeffersonian ordinance of 1787 should be applied to all the Territories of the Northwest, so long as they should remain under the government of Congress. Mr …

" Just twenty-eight years after the delegate from Xc-w York, who had been selected by his colleagues for the purjwse, broke to their outraged constituents the story of their State's humiliation, that same delegate received the suffrages of a large majority of his countrymen for the highest honoi' in their gift ; and to-day, through that delegate's influence, another citizen of …

Tilden to the overthrow of what was known as the Tweed Ring, which had thoroughly debauched every branch of the New York City government, legislative, executive and judicial, and was threatening the State government also with its foul embrace. "The total surrender of my professional business during that period," he has siiid in one of his published conimunications, " the …

Tilden thus wrote he had not experienced nor could he have foreseen the legal consummation of his labors in the arrest, imprisonment or flight of all the parties who, only a few months before, seemed to hold the wealth and power of the Empire State in the hollow of their hands, nor the condemnation of Tweed to the striped jacket and cell of a felon, nor the recovery of …

I " Writings and Life of Samuel J. Tilden,'' edited by John Bigelow. Pub., Harper 4 Brothers, 1885. HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. duty of counting the electoral votes for President and Vice-President, it appeared that there were one hundred and eighty-four uncontested electoral votes for Samuel J. Tilden for President and for Thomas A. Hendricks for Vice-President, one …

A majority of the Senate being Republicans and a majority of the House of Representatives being Democrats, that the Senate would not agree to to count any one of these twenty votes for Tilden and Hendricks was assumed; and to avoid a conflict of jurisdiction, which was thought by some to threaten the peace of the country, a special tribunal, to consist of members of Congress …

As soon, however, as the National Democratic Convention assembled in 1880, he felt constrained to address to the chairman of the New York delegation the memorable letter in which he proclaimed his well-considered intention to retire from public life, for the labors of which he had long felt his health and strength were unequal. In 1884 he was obliged to repeat his resolution …

Whatever heresies of doctrine have crept into our public policy since those days, the responsibility for them will not rest with him. In all the papers and speeches with which from time to time he has endeavored to enlighten his countrymen, it will be difficult to find a line or a thought not in harmony with the teachings of the eminent statesmen who, during the first fifty …

He asserted the supervisory control of the Legislature over corporations of its own creation. He exposed the enormities of Mr. Webster's scheme to pledge the public lands for the payment of the debts of the States. He drew and vindicated in a profoundly learned and able report the Act which put an end to the discontentH of the New York 'Anti-renters.' He wrote the protest of …

It was at his instance that the Democratic party of New York, in the same Convention, pronounced against third-term Presidents, and eftectively strengthened the exposed intrenchments which the country, for eighty years and more, had been erecting against the insidious encroachments of dynasticism. During his career as Governor Mr. Tilden applied the principles of the political …

Always cautious in the selection of his facts, singularly moderate in his statements and temperate in his language, he, better than perhaps any other statesman of our time, can afford to be judged by his record. Who that has figured so prominently in public affairs has said or written less that he would prefer not to have said ; less that his maturer judgment cannot approve …

In his youth he took part in politics, was a delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1858, and a distinguished and effective speaker in the campaign of 1860. In every Presidential contest from that time to the present, his speeches have been listened to by thousands of his fellow-citizens, and his opinions have never failed to attract attention and command respect. At …

Depew was one of the most prominent among the candidates pro})osed as his successor, but withdrew his name in the interests of harmony. He was appointed one of the regents of the university in' 1877, a position which he still retains. For several years he was vice-jtresident and general counsel for the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, and is now (1886) president of …

On September 23, 1880, he addressed a large assembly at Tarrytown, in commemoration of the capture of Major Andre, and he was the orator of the day upon the occasion of unveiling the statue of Alexander Hamilton, in Central Park. At the election of a United States Senator, in 1885, he was tendered the nomination by all divisions of the Republican party, but declined to be …

After teaching school for a while, he resolved to study for the legal profession, and entered the office of Richard R. Voris, Esq., who was a prominent lawyer, and District Attorney of the County. In 1847 he was admitted to the bar as attorney and counsellor at law. Immediately after his admissioii he established his practice in Sing Sing, and has continued it to the present …

Joline, a prominent lawyer of New York City ; Sarah, wife of Dr. Joel Madden; Frank, who married Lily, daughter of Oeorge A. Brandreth ; John, Adrian H., and Alice. Of these Frank and John are practicing lawyers, and both graduates of Princeton College, and the youngest son, Adrian H., is now a student at the same institution. The youngest daughter is at present studying at …

This homestead (which was on the farm formerly belonging to Bartholomew Ward, and sold by him to Andrew Purdy), stood in what is now the village of Mount Vernon, at the •corner of Sixth Avenue and Fourth Street, on the ■east side, and now belongs to the heirs of John Stevens. The early boyhood of Mr. Purdy was passed at this place, and at the age of twelve he went to …

The following year he was reelected, and was re-appointed on the abovenamed committee. His practice as a lawyer has been almost entirely confined to real estate. In this branch of legal knowledge he has few equals, and it may be safely said that there is no one who is more thoroughly conversant with the history of the land titles in this county. He is constantly called upon to …

Their only son, Caleb, a young man of great promise, died, in 1869, soon after his graduation from Columbia College. Mr. Purdy is a member of the Episcopal Church, and now holds the position of senior warden, and is superintendent of the Sabbath -school. Soon after establishing his practice at West Farms \ THE BENCH AND BAR. he purchased tlio homestead formerly belonging to …

He studied law in his native village and for some years after his admission to the bar was engaged there in the practice of his profession. In the law firm of which he was a member, Nicholas Hill, Jr., and Augustus Bockes, who was later a supreme court judge of that district, were the other partners. From the first, he showed remarkable powers in influencing juries to the …

When the Hudson River Bridge Company secured articles of incorporation for the purpose of bridging the Hudson River at Albany, the city of Troy, which was opposed to the building of the bridge, engaged Mr. Beach to endeavor to prevent its construction by an appeal to the courts. A preliminary injunction was obtained enjoining the bridge company from proceeding with their work …

Beach not only succeeded in procuring the accjuittal of his clients, but also laid the foundation for the proceedings which ended in the discontinuance of the sy.stem of substituting military inquisitions for authorized civil courts. His argument was listened to by Senators and Representatives and his skillful conduct of the case made him the recipient of many enthusiastic …

Vanderbilt, popularly known as the five million dollar suit, Messrs. Beach and Rapallo were retained by Mr. Vanderbilt, . and succeeded in obtaining a verdict in his favor. In the celebrated suit of Bowen vs. Chase, which involved the title to the valuable real estate left by Madame Jumel, Mr. Beach appeared for the plaintiff' and was opposed by Charles O'Connor. The trial …

Fullerton, General Roger A. Pryor, Samuel D. Morris and Thomas E. Pearsall. For Mr. Beecher appeared William M. Evarts, John K. Porter, Austin Abbott, Benjamin F. Tracy, Thomas G. Shearman, John L. Hill and John W. Sterling. In summing up the evidence for Mr. Tilton, Mr, Beach occupied the sessions of the court from June 10th to June 23d, 187o. The result of this trial, as is …

He left a wife and six children. He married Jennie Wilson, daughter of Jesse Wilson, of Albany, in 1858. His children were Captain Warren Beach, at present a member of General Hancock's staff; Judge Miles Beach, of the Court of Common Pleas in New York ; John Beach, of Knoxville, Tenn.; Anna, wife of Walter S. Ajjpleton, of the firm of D. Appleton & Co.; William, aged eleven …

Malcolm Smith, who was born in New Y'^ork, March 11, 1823, while his parents were residing temporarily in that city, but removed with them to Sing Sing in early infancy. His father was desirous of giving him a collegiate education, and with that view he attended the preparatory school at Middletown, Conn., and subsequently entered the Wesleyan University. Here he continued …

So well did he perform his duties that at the expiration of his term he was re-elected, and in 1873 was chosen for a third term without opposition, his election being especially favored by the most prominent lawyers of the county without regard to party ties. Upon his retirement from office the following appeared in one of the leading newspapers of the county, reflecting, in …

Malcolm Smith, the present County Clerk, who.se term of office is about to expire, they have made a thorough investigation ae to the present condition of the books, papers and records of the office, and find the minutes of all the Courts duly recorded ; the Registers of Actions and Special Proceedings written up to date and properly inde.\ed ; the Judgments docketed in the …

He has been for forty years connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church, aud is well known as an active and influential member, largely aiding financially and by judicious counsel in the erection of churches, both in Sing Sing and White Plains. He has been an extensive traveler in various portions of the United States and few men in this county have a wider circle of …

He was the builder of more than one hundred ves.sels, from a small sloop to a ship of three thousand tons. During his life he bore a part in the erection of five churches, and was known as the " father of Sing Sing Methodism," being one of the original corporators of the first church of that denomination in the village, and the largest contributor towards its erection. After a …

of Casper Trumpy, now living at Greenwich, Ct.;and Caroline, wife of William Brown, of Yonkers, who died in ISS'). Henry R. Haskin, the oldest son, was born October 27, 1794, and died January 24, 1848. He was educated at St. Mary's College, Maryland ; was a midshi])man in the War of 1812; was with Commodore Chauncey at the battle of Sackett's Harbor, and was wounded there. He …

The children of this marriage were Henry R., who died in California ; John B. ; and William E., now treasurer of the Board of Excise in New York. After the death of Mi-s. Haskin, Mr. Haskin was married a second time, to Ann, daughter of Benjamin F. Lowe, and they had two children -- Harriet, wife of R. Ridgly Wheatly, of New York, and Benjamin F., a member of the Excise Board …

Five years later he was elected to the office of civil justice, and held court at the corner of Bowery and Third Street, and continued in this position till 1849, when the office was abolished. He seemed naturally destined for active political life, and his influence and ability were soon felt in the councils of his party. Fortunately for himself and the public, he was not a …

In that year he was elected member of Congress for the Ninth District on the regular Democratic ticket. It was soon evident tiiat he was not the man to sit on a back seat. His first speech attracted at once the attention of the House, being made in opposition to the attempt of Alexander H. Stephens to disgrace Admiral Hiram Paulding for causing the arrest of the noted …

Haskin by a majority of thirteen votes. His nature showed itself when he stated from his seat in Congress, " I came here with no party collar on my neck." His independence was too plain to be misunderstood, and an attack upon him in the personal organ of President Buchanan was answered by him in an able speech on the floor of the House, in which his position and relation to …

Haskin to deliver a fitting tribute to the memory of his friend, which was a masterpiece of pathetic eloquence. His last speech in Congress was delivered February 23,1861. It was a characteristically bold and clear review of the agitation which led to the great crisis in our history ; expressed his belief that the perilous condition of the country was directly traceable to the …

In the face of bitter opposition on the part of many of the wealthy men in the vicinity, he succeeded in procuring the erection of the present school building at Fordham, at a cost of seventy thousand dollars, which must ever remain a monument to his energy and public spirit. Mr. Haskin married Jane, daughter of Peter Valentine, a representative of one of the oldest families …

Utterly fearless in the expression of his views, his friends know him as one upon whom they can depend, while his enemies find in him a man who can neither be frightened nor cajoled. A weak politician of an inferior grade will truckle to his adversaries and strive to conciliate by unworthy means. Mr. Haskin is the type of a politician who boldly defies his opjjonents and …

Banta, who is among the best known jurists of Westchester County, and by his activity in the espousal of every just cause has brought himself prominently before its people, both in i)olitical and social life, was born in the city of New York, October 3, 1828. He was one of ten children and the only son of Solomon Banta, who married Maria Roome, of New Jersey. While quite young …

From his arrival in Westchester County he has deeply interested himself in its politics. Being a Democrat, he immediately identified himself with his party in IMamaroneck, and was elected in 1877 supervisor of the town, an ofiice he continues to hold. Tiie liberal course pursued by him in the County Board so won tiie apj)roval of his jtarty that in 188') lie was made their …

He afterwards removed to George Street, near the Boston road, where he died in 1884. Judge Hall attended the old Public School No. 3, on Fordham Avenue (now Third Avenue), near One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Street, from 1851 to 1858, when he graduated. He then obtained a position in the well-known publishing house of the Putnams, and remained until 186(1. In the fall of that …

He came North in March, and received his discharge in Boston, May 24, 1865. He then entered the law school of the University of the City of New York in the senior class, graduated June 17, 1866, and was admitted to the bar. He established an office for the practice of law in Morrisania, which he continued till 1877, when he removed to New York, and was elected judge of the …

Hall was major of the Sixth New York Artillery, fought at the HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. battle of Bull Run, was wounded at Brandy Station in 1863, and was discharged from service upon recovering from his wound. Charles B. Hall was a member of the Seventy-first Regiment in 1861, and afterward joined the Ninety -fifth Regiment New York Volunteers, and his brother Alfred …

Every point of the subject is laid down in so careful a manner as to render it perfectly plain to the most common intellect, and with an impartiality which leaves no ground for the charge of intentional bias on either side of the case. As an active and energetic politician, he is one concerning whom it is safe to prophesy still higher positions in the future. The brothers of …

A grandson of William Samuel Johnson, was aNew York lawyer of i)rominence and was a mend^er of the Senate of the State of New York. He married Miss Laura Wolsey, sister of President Wolsey, of Yale College. Their second child and oldest son, Samuel William, was born in the city of New Y^'ork, October 27, 1828. After a preparatory course in private schools of the city he …

Hoffman commissioner-general and chief of ordnance for the State of New Y'ork. He has been nine times elected supervisor of the town of Rye and was for two years chairman of the board. For three years he was a member of Assembly from the Second District of Westchester County. It is a remarkable fact that he is the fourth member of the family in the direct line who has …

H., and the name is frequently found in the annals of that town. That of Samuel Scribner occurs in 1754, and during the following year he, in company with one of his neighbors, was taken prisoner by the Indians and carried to Canada, where he was sold as a captive, but was subsequently ransomed by the colonial government. In 1756 he joined the regiment of Colonel Nathan …

David Seribner, son of Ebenezer and p;rands()n of yanuiel, was born May 12, 17G7, and was tbc father of thirteen eliildren, -- David, Hannah, Sarah, Eben. Sewall 15., Silas, Ruth, Jaeob D., Jonathan, Albert G., Hannah D., Alfred and Almira H. Sewall B. Seribner was born March 12, 1793, and removed from his native place (Andover, N. H.) to Monroe County, N. Y., in ISlli. At …

At the close of his collegiate course, in 1853, he went to New York and began life in the great city without friends or accjuaintance, and with little to encourage him, but an amount of determination and energy with which he could not fail to work his way. Commencing the study of law in the office of Hon. Daniel B. Taylor who enjoyed a large practice and was the possessor ot …

Upon coming to Yonkers he built a house on Woodworth Avenue, near Locust Street, there being at that time very (ew dwellings in that vicinity. His iiome was surrounded by a beautiful locust grove. He subsecjuently moved to a residence at " Hillside," near the corner of liroadway and High Street. His present residence, •• Inglehurst," was purchased in the spring of 1880, and …

In addition to his extensive law practice, he was for a time the president of the Palisades Bank of Yonkers, and also a director of several large corporations. In 1868 he retired from the practice of law and with bis family made a long tour iu Europe. He made a second trip in 1870, was present at the declaration of the Franco-Prussian War, and enjoyed special opportunities of …

In March, 1871, he wiis instrumental in organizing the Young Men's State Republican Association, the object of which was to unite discordant elements and end the strifes which had impaired the usefulness of the party. This organization very naturally chose Mr. Seribner for its president, and having shown himself a competent and faithful leader, he was nominated by acclamation …

Often organizingaud always connected with one or more literary circles, he has not suffered his love of learning to be stifled by the cares and responsibilities of his profession or the routine of daily labor. To him is due the credit of establishing the Bancroft Society of New Y^ork, and also " The Society o) Pundits," a literary circle, which for many years continued its …

To express an opinion as to the truth or fallacy of this theory would in this place be presumptuous, but it is sufficient to say that the hypothesis has not only been well received by the press and scholars, but has been the means of turning the attention of men of science to a closer consideration of the subject, and the discoveries that may follow may far exceed the most …

H., and settled at Ogden, Monroe ^County, in the early part of the present century. The ancestors of the various families of this name were four brothers, Matthew, David, Andrew and Benjamin, who came from Yorkshire, England, in 1640, and settled in Newburyport, Mass., whence they removed to Salisbury. The mother of Mrs. Scribner was Emeline, daughter of Manlius G. Woodbury …

Bedford was then the county-seat and a place of no small importance; in fact, the principal village of the county. Mr. Smith at an early age entered the High School and academy at Bedford, which was an institution of note, second to none in the State, and included among its pupils Hon. William H. Robertson, Hon. James W. Husted and many others of distinction. A short time …

He removed to Morrisania shortly after the settlement of the new village, about tliirty years ago, and opened a law-ofticc where he continued successfully the practice of his profession up to the winter of 1877, when he was compelled to give up business on account of a paralytic stroke. He was an old-school type of a Christian gentleman, highly resi)ected in all the walks of …

Smith studied law in the office of his father and attended the Columbia College Law School, from which institution he received his diploma, and was admitted to the bar June 12, 1871. KDWAKD TRAFFORD LOVATT. Mr. Lovatt was born May 22, 1850, at Newark, N. J. His father was .John Lovatt and his mother Mary Ann Lovatt. He was the eldest of six children. Educated both in the …

been his great ambition. In order to do this, not having the means to attend college, he laid out the same course of reading as he would have been required to take if attending law school, and whilebusy in the mills during the day, pursued his studies at night and early in the morning, thus mastering the many thousands of pages of legal text works necessary to a thorough …

Among the many cases in the criminal courts in which he was counsel for the defense, some of the more prominent murder trials were those of William Newman, Fitzgerald, Brownlee, Coleman and Angelo Cornetti, the last-named being the first tried in this State under the amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure, by which all capital cases can be appealed and execution of …

Being a firm believer in the publicschool system of the State, he is one of its most active supporters and is now president of the Board of Education of the village. Mr. Lovatt has always been an ardent Republ can, and upon the principle that all good citizens should participate in the politics of the State and country, he has taken a very active part, having been a delegate …

He is an effective public speaker, easy in his mannei's, ready and fluent in speech, possessing a large fund of mother wit. His studious habits, quick perception, faculty of illustration, clear judgment and logical conclusions carry conviction with them. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. BY GEOKGE JACKSON FISHER, M.D., Of Sing Sing. Excepting to gentlemen of the medical profession, ] …

So it becomes a difficult, perhaps a needless, and almost certainly a thankless task to attempt to write the sketch proposed. On the 1st day of June, 1858, the writer of this chapter read the annual address, as president, before the Medical Society of the County of Westchester, taking for his theme " Biographical Sketches of the Deceased Physicians of Westchester County, N …

James Fountain gave the writer a little document that was previously supposed to be irrecoverably lost, which contains the original records of the first five meetings of the Medical Society of Westchester County. This book was restored to the society, by which it is now preserved. It begins thus, -- " At a respectable Jleetiug of Physicians of the County of Westchester on the …

McDonald, of the white plains, was Elected president of the Society Pro tempore, and upon said motion Doctr. JIatsou Smith, of New Rochelle, was Elected Secretary thereof. " The Society, Pleased with the present progress and deslreous that the Boanl shall hereafter exist upon the most fair and respectable terms: and that the Physicians of the County shall indiscriminately …

Jesse Hally, in Bedford, and hope this mode will be considered uneiiuiviciilly an invitation. Should any gentleman neglect the present season of uniting with the Society after the Meeting afforesaid, no gentleman can expect admission in the Society without a vote for the purpose. " I'pon motion resolved that Docf. .\. 5IcDonald, David Rodgers and Matson Smith l>e a Commit ee …

Sutton Craft, Near New Castle Church, on Tuesday, the 8th Day of .\ugust Next, at 10 o'clock A.M.' Only six members were present at the third meeting. 1 The biographies of living medical men which have been inserted in the chapter by the editor of this history are indicated by foot-notes, and the writer is in no way responsible for them. They have been prepared by various …

Lemuel Mead " delivered a dissertation upon Physiology to the satisfaction of the Society." The records of the society from this meeting to June, 1830, are, unfortunately, lost. The society, I believe, has never failed to convene, at least annually, since its organization. At the present time it holds four sessions a year, each of which is fairly well attended. It has served …

The individual members of the society have made no insignificant additions to the literature of the profession. Appended will be found as nearly a complete list of the contributions as it has been possible to make at this time. By this it will be seen that more than a hundred articles, aggregating about twenty-two hundred pages of medical matter, have been put in print by our …

Pp. 3. [.V. ¥. Med. and Phy». Jr., vol. iv. pp. 4S4- 486. New York, 1825.] "On ihe Employment of Calomel and Opium in Dysentery." By Dr. Moore Hoit, of Peekskill, N. Y. Pp. 4. [Ibid., vol. iv. pp. 487- 490.] HISTOKY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. 182G. " Keflections on Diseases of Irritatiou." By James Fountain, M.D. Pp. 5(1. [A: y. Med. and Plnis. Jr., \o\. v. pp. 145-1G4 ; pp …

" On the Nature of Phlegmasia Duleiis." I!y James D. Trask, M.D. Pp. 38. Jr. Mrd. ScL, N. S., vol. xiii. p. 26 January, 1847.] "An Address to the Westchester County Medical Society on the Laws of Epidemics, as e.\hihited in those that have prevailed in that county during the last twenty years." By Benjamin Bassett, M.D., president of the Society. Pp. 9. [The X. Y. Jr. of Med …

Pp. 4. [Nelson's -Vort/ieni Lunnel, vol. vii. p. 161. June, 1853.] " Report of Pliysician and Surgeon of New York State Prisons at Sing Sing for the year 1853." By Geo. .1. Fisher, M.D. Pp.8. [Anmml Report ofIiispeet''rs,for 1853, p. 132-140.] 1854. " Report of the Pliysician and Surgeon of New Y'ork State Prisons at Sing Sing for the year 1854." By G. J. Fisher, M.D. Pp. 13 …

•' Case of Phlegmasia Dolens after Typhoid Fever, and the Same of the Upper and Lower Extremities after Parturition." By James Fountain, M.D. , of Jefferson Valley. Pp.2. [Ibid. p. iO-il.] " A Case of Chronic Nephretis, &c." By G. J. Fisher, M.D. Pp. 4. [Trans. Med. Soc. S. of N. Y., 18.56, p. 173-176.] " Cases Illustrating the Effects of Needle.* .Accidentally Penetrating …

Y.. 1857, p. 17,5-177.] " Remarks on Table of Coutents and General Index of Transactions of Med. Soc. of the State of N. Y." " List of Presidents of Med. Soc, of State of N. Y., 1807-18.77." "Titles of Articles in the Trans. M. S. of S. of N. Y., 1832-18.57." " General Index of Trans. M. S. of S. of N. Y., 1832-1857." By Geo. J. Fisher, M.D. Pp. 50. [Trans. 1857, p. 179- 227.] …

Being the Annual Address before the Westchester County Medical Society, at its sessson held in White Plains, June 1, 1858." By George J. Fisher, .V.M., M.D. Published by order of the society. Svo, pp. 52. New York, 1861. 1860. " Spontaneous Complete Inversion of the Uterus ; reposited recovery." By G.J. Fisher, M.D. P. 1. [/Im. Jr. Jl/ed. Sci., N. S., vol. xl. p. 341.] 1861 …

Its Uses and Applications, with Remarks on the Different Methods of Arresting Hemorrhage from Gun.shot and other Wounds." Pp.31. N. Y., 1862. [Tliis tourniquet, called Lombert's, was invented by Dr. Charles A. Lee, who wrote this anonymous pamphlet.] 1863. " Relations of War to Medical Science. The annual address delivered before the Westchester County Med. Soc, June 15 …

Ibid., 1866, p. 207-296. Ibid., 1867, p. 396-430. Ibid., 1868, p. 276-316.] THE MP]DICAL PROFESSION. 1866. " On Provision for the Insane Poor of the Stale of New York and the Adaptation of the ' Asylum and Cottage Plan ' to their wants ; as illustrated by the History of the Colony of Kitz James, at Clermont, France." By Charles A. Lee, M.D. Pp. ISO. [Trans. Hied. Soc. of tlie …

" Does Maternal Mental Infiuence have any Constructive or Destructive Power in the Production of Malformations or Monstrosities at any Stage of Embryonic Development ;" By G. J. Fisher, M.D., of Sing Sing, N. Y. Pp. .57. [Reprinted from vol. xxvi. of the Am. Jr. of Jiiianitii for January, 1870. Utica, N. Y., 1870. 1 "Three Cases of Imperforate Anus, with Remarks." By J. H …

Pract. for Aug. 1871.] " Report of the Surgical Cases Treated in the St. John's Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, X. Y., during, the Year 1870." Hy J. H. Pooley M.D. Pp.19. [Reprinted from the .Y. 1', .Ue</. J/-., Nov., 1871.] " Suggestions Relative to the Sequestration of the Person of Alleged Lunatics." By R. L. Parsons, M.D. Pp. ii. [Papers read before the Med. -Legal Soc. of …

F. Rodenstein, M.D. Pp. 19. [Reprinted from the N. Y. Med. Jr., April, 1872.] "Two Ca.se8 of Rare Disease of the Tongue." By .1. H. Pooley, M.D. Pp. 4. [Extracted from Amer. Jr. Med. Sci. for April, 1872.1 "RopL.rt of the Surgical Cases Treated in the St. John's Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, N. Y., during the year 1871 (second year)." By J. H. Pooley, M.D. Pp. 20. [Reprinted …

" Case of Epithelioma of the Cheek and Lower Eyelid. Removal -- Blepharoplasty." liy J. II. Pooley, M.D. Pp. 7. [Reprinted from ".\rchives of Oi)hthalmolugy and Otology," vol. iii., 1873.] 1874. "Cases in Surgery, Lumbar Colotomy, etc." By J. II. Pooley, M.D. Pp. 11. [R.'printed from the K Y. Med. Jr., Jan., 1874.] " Injections of Tincture of Iodine into the Cavity of the …

An examination of the evidence on which is based the establishment of the occurrence of luxations at the wrist and radio-carpal articulations ; also a consideration of the nature of the deformity, of the symptoms and of the treatment of Colles' fracture, with a n'mme of the literature of this subject, being the Merritt H. Cash prize essay for 1874." By Thomas K. Cruse, M.D …

Pp.4. [Johnson's '■ Cyclopa'dia," vol. iv. p. 782-785.] '•Inaugural and .Vnnivei-sary Addresses delivered before the Medical Society of the State of New York, at its Sixty-ninth Session, held at the City of Albany, February 2, 3, and 4, 1875." By the President, George Jackson Fisher, M.D., of Sing Sing, N. Y. 8vo, pp. 57. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1875. [Trans, of the …

By Eugene Peugnet, M D. Pp. 83. [Reprinted from the Ohio 3fe /. mid Siinj. Jr., Columbus, 1878.] 1879. "Observations on the Digestion of Milk." By E. F. Brush, M.D. [N. r. Med. Jr., Sept., 1879.] 1880. "Case of a Rare Variety of Human Diprosopic Monster, with Olwervations on the Genus Diprosopus." Bv George Jackson Fisher, M.D. Pp. 4. [.\nnals of the Anatomical and Surgical …

Soc. of the County of Westchester Tuesday, June 21, 1881," By E. F. Brush, M.D., Mount Vernon, N. Y. [The Med. Record, vol. xx. p. 149-151.] "Skimmed Milk as an Article of Food." By E. F. Brush, M.D. [The Med. Record, vol. xx. p. 459-461.] l" One Mode of Improving Cow's Milk for Human Food. Read before the Tonkers Med. Soc. Oct. 7, 1881." By E. F. Brush, M.D. {Ihid., vol. XX …

Pp. 26. [Reprint from The Alienist and yetirologist, St. Louis, Oct. 1881.] 1882. " Imperfect Nutrition in Infants." By E. H. Hermance, M.D., Tonkers, N. Y. [The Med. Jtec, vol, xxii. p. 32.>,] "Acute Milk-Poisoning," By E, F, Brush, M,D. [The Med. Rec, vol. xxii. p. 424-420.] 188:!. " Vaccination Observations and Suggestions. " ByE. F. Brush, M.D. [The Med. Rrc, vol. xxiii …

Pp. 21. [Reprinted from the Transactions of the Jled. Soc. of the State of N. T., by order of the Med. Soc. of Westchester Co., N. Y, Syracuse, N, Y., 1884.] "The Faculty of Speech." By E. F. Brush, M.D. [Populur Science Monthly, April, 1884.] " Au Obstinate Case of Ovarian Dysmenorrhea, Oophorectomy, with Remarks on the I tility of the Operation." By E. H. Hermance, M.D., of …

He was an Englishman by birth and education, an accomplished medical practitioner and a gentleman of the decided English stamp, as can be seen by his full-length portrait which now hangs in an ancient parlor of his granddaughter, Mrs. Betsey Field, a widow of over eight}' years, residing near the village of Peekskill. He was a successful practitioner previous to the …

Dr. Elias Cornelius, of Somers, was a native of Long Island, and served as surgeon's mate in the Revolutionary army. After the close of the war he settled in the western part of Somers, where he practiced his profession over forty years with eminent success and credit. During the Revolution he contracted the habit of smoking, snuffing and tippling, but, contrary to the …

Having been inspired by a genuine love, with the requisite enthusias.m, for his profession, he gave it his undivided attention, and the whole THE MEDICAL PROFESSI(X\. 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 …

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 died in his eighty-sixth year, leaving several children and many friends to lament his loss. Dr. Francis Fowler practiced in White Plains and vicinity about eighty or ninety years ago. He came from Newburgh, Orange County, N. Y., and soon after his arrival married a sister of ex-Sheriff" Amos W. Hatfield, of White Plains. His talents and practice are said to have been …

Seth Miller, of Sing Sing, was born in April, 17(56. He came from Lower Salem, and, after practicing several years at New Castle, settled at Sing Sing, before 1700, being the first physician to locate in the latter village. Mrs. John Miller, who, in 1858, was eighty-six years old, stated that Dr. Miller had attended her husband when he was suff'ering from the yellow fever. It …

Archibald Maodonald, of White Plains, was one of the most distinguished of the early physicians of the county and prominent among the founders of the Medical Society. He was a native of Inverness, Scotland, and came of the Glengarry branch of the Macdonalds. His father, in 1745, joined the forces of Charles Edward, the last of the Stuart pretenders who endeavored to regain by …

His son, James Macdonald, studied medicine with Dr. David Palmer, of White Plains, and Dr. David Hosack, of New York. As an investigator of insanity, in the ti'eatment of which he became an expert, he visited the principal lunacy asylums of Europe; and, on his return to this country, was one of the founders and proprietors of the Sanford Hall Asylum, at Flushing, L. I. He died …

He was a native of Vermont, and the manufacturer of a superior article of pulverized Peruvian bark. His grinding-mills were at Byrom's Mills, now called Glenville; they were the first establishment of the kind in the United States, and his son John continued and enlarged the business with great profit. He is spoken of as " a bold practitioner of both medicine and surgery." He …

He had graduated at Yale and pursued bismedical studies under Dr. Perry, at Ridgefield, Conn. Prompt in response to calls, he rode the country over on a fast gray mare which is still associated with his memory. To his excessively arduous labor is attributed his premature death, for he passed away December 29, 1820, in the thirty-ninth year of his age. He was the preceptor of …

Brewer was mortally wounded. He expired the next morning, November 20, 1780, in the arms of Dr. White. He was a native of Massachusetts, but thirty-nine years old, and the husband of Hannah Brewer, by whom he had four sons and three daughters. Dr. James Brewer, of Peekskill, was his grandson. Dr. White was prominent in politics and the church. He was once elected to the New …

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 …

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 …

Jeremiah Drake Fowler, born December 28, 1785, at Peekskill, studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, where he received his degree, and located at Sing Sing. No medical man could have been more popular than he was in his day, and he earned his eminence legitimately by skill in his profsssion. He was a prominent member of the Westchester County Medical …

Piatt and Nelson, at Rhinebeck, and was aided by friends to attend a course of lectures at Rutgers Medical College. When he located at White Plains, about 1829, he was almost penniless, but his abilities soon procured him a remunerative i)ractice. In May, 1832, he married Miss Williams, of Rhinebeck, and shortly afterward removed to New York City on account of his failing …

Joseph Mather Smith, says: " Devoted to the practice of physic proper, obstetrics and surgery, it may, perhaps, be said, aside from some of the rarer and more delicate operations of surgery, which he referred to special experts, that he was equally skillful in these departments." He adopted vaccination at a very early date after its introduction into this country, and took …

Sackett and attended lectures at the New Y'ork City Hospital and the Medical Institution of the State of New York. Opening an office two and a half miles southeast of Sing Sing, he remained there a year and spent the next year at Bedford. For the succeeding fifteen years he had his office within a mile and a half of Tarrytown ; then moving, in 1885, into that village, he …

Scribner ; in attending upon the latter he sacrificed his own strength, and died January 11, 1848. For many years he availed himself of the practice of the county almshouse as a school of observation, and was exceedingly kind to the forlorn and helpless paupers. He was the inventor of an improvement on Amesbury's splint. His name was coupled with that of Dr. Scribner in …

He was granted an annual pension of four hundred and forty dollars by the government for his services. In 1784 he settled at Unionville, Westchester County, and practiced for nearly half a century. He was considered very skillful in treating cases of small-pox, or " winter fever," as it was then called, by inoculation, and is alleged to have earned fourteen hundred dollars in …

He attended medical lectures and dissections in New York City, and was one of the students obliged to seek safety in flight from the mob which attacked the dissecting departments. Subsequently to practicing for a short time in the town of his birth, he changed his location to Peekskill, where he died February 1, 1850. With him perished the name of his family. While in his …

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 …

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- THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. ter County Medical Society in 1846 and 1847, and in the latter year delivered an address " On the laws of …

Sackett, and was one of the first, if not the very first, student from Westchester County to matriculate in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City, where he graduated March 16, 1812. Beginning practice in his native county, in a year he moved to Scaten Island, but, at the solicitation of his father, soon returned to Jefferson Valley. He had become a meml)er of …

AU our struggles must be laborious so long as ignorance of physiology prevails among the people, and that must continue a long time. " I am now in my seventieth year. I consider myself professionally dead. It is my last prayer that you may persevere until the rays of knowledge shall illumine the eyes of the people and induce them to value the realities of knowledge over …

Arsenic, strychnine, mercury, tartar emetic, the lancet and the blister were the great weapons of his warfare, and he was not afraid to use them. In his treatment there was no half and half -- he gave disease no quarter -- and it must be confessed that often, in drawing out the enemy, he shook the citadel terribly, but when he had slain the foe, if the patient survived, like a …

Neither in auscultation or percussion, nor, in fact, in any of the more modern modes of physical explorations, did he ever make much proficiency, and he professed but little fiiith in them, believing, until his death, that the rational signs of disease would generally lead the rational practitioner to a correct diagnosis. In surgery he was not a brilliant operator, although …

Would ride all day, and then in hot weather I have known him to strip to the skin and help his man draw hay off by moonlight ; then off in the morning again as usual." In 1862 he removed to Waverly, N. Y., to spend the remainder of his days with his son. He died May 19, 1869, during a visit to his old home in Jefferson Valley, and was buried in the Presbyterian grave-yard at …

At Cold Harbor he narrowly escaped being taken prisoner, and he witnessed most of the movements of the army of the Potomac around Richmond and at the Weldon Railroad. In October, 1865, he was associated with Dr. William S. Stanley in his practice at Mamaroneck, where he continued for the remainder of his life. He died, April 25, 1872, at his father's home in Bedford. In 1866 …

Y., and, as a student was successively under Dr. Daniel Ayers, of Openheim, N. Y., and Dr. Nathaniel Drake, of Peekskill. He completed his studies as the private pupil of Dr. Cyrus Perkins, professor of anatomy and surgery in Dartmouth College, where he attended lectures and fulfilled all requirements necessary for his degree as doctor of medicine, but could not obtain it …

"On my entrance," says Dr. Pryer, " he called out, 'doctor, I have a broken arm.' Proceeding to examine the arm very tenderly, fearful of giving pain, I said, 'are you sure it is broken? ' 'Oh, yes,' said he, ' see here,' and he shook the elbow to and fro again and again, until the broken bones grated against one another in a manner that produces a shudder to this day when the …

Kleoteil in 1831, censor; 1833-34, treasurer; 1838, vice president ; 183C-37, president ; 1838, censor; 1841, essayist for fall meeting; 1842, coniniittee to draft rate bill, serving with Drs. Livingstone Koe and Gates ; ISoI, reported a case of puerperal peritonitis, treated by " opium alone;" 1852, censor; 1853, vice-president and committee to report on "Ship Fever;" 1854 …

He had been made an honorary member of the Westchester County Medical Society at its annual meeting in 1869, and at the meeting in 1872, at White Plains, he met his brother members for the last time. On the day of his funeral, business was suspended in New Rochelle, flags hung at half-mast from the public and many private buildings, the church, school and engine-house bells …

After two years of practice in Roxbury, Connecticut, he came to Peekskill, and although in three years he had established remunerative professional connections there, he returned to Philadelphia to avail himself of another course of lectures and clinical observations under Prof Pancoast. Then he resumed his field of labor at Peekskill and cultivated it for upwards of thirty …

His hand was steady, his instruments many and various, his knives were sharp, his determination almost dogged, his judgment good and he was never taken by surprise. In auscultation and percussion he was far above the average, his touch being delicate and his ear acute. If his diagnosis was sometimes shaped too much by his preconceived notion of things, and hence may have …

Havilah Mowry Sprague,' born at Scotland, Windham County, Conn., July 4, 1835, received his first tuition in medicine in the office of Dr. Hutchins. West Killingly, Conn., and in 1858 became a student under Professor A. C. Post, New York City. He attended the New York University Medical College, and received at the close of the session of 1859-60 the first prize for the best …

He was commissioned assistant surgeon United States army May 28, 1861, and ordered to New Mexico, but upon his arrival in Missouri was attached to the array of General Lyon, was present when he was killed at Springfield, and subsequently received the thanks of the commanding general for bravery and skill in attendance upon the wounded. Dr. Sprague was transferred to Assistant …

He was appointed health officer of the town of West Farms, was the first physician to the " Home for Incurables," and first physician to the " House of Rest for Consumptives," at Tremont. He was a member of the Westchester County Medical Society, president of the Y'onkers Medical Association, was elected a delegate to the American Medical Association for 1874 from the latter …

Y., and in 1848 he received his degree from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The next year he devoted to an extra course of didactic and clinical lectures at the Harvard Medical School, Bosion. From May, 1849, to May, 1856, he practiced in the city of New York (except that from November, 1850, to July, 1851, he was in Europe, employing most of that …

John's Riverside Hospital, at Yonkers ; surgeon of the Yonkers Board of Police ; senior warden of St. Paul's Parish, Yonkers ; president of the Yonkers Medical Association (of which he was one of the founders) ; president of the Westchester County Medical Society ; vice-president of the New York Obstetrical Society ; permanent member of the American Jledical Association …

Horton was born at Croton, Westchester County, December 6, 1826, and accumulated by manual labor the money which enabled him to enter the Albany Medical College, from where he graduated in 1858, but continued to serve some time afterward as house surgeon. In 1859 he removed to Morrisania and entered upon a large and successful practice. In 1879, and again in 1881, he visited …

He was for two terms elected justice of the peace, and in 1881 was elected school commissioner and reelected in 1884. He was a member, from its organization, of Stewart Hart Post, G. A. R., Mount Kisco, and its commander for one year ; and an earnest and active member of Kisco Lodge, F. and A. M. Among other offices he had held were those of vicepresident of the New York State …

This is the secret of his preference for rural and village life, instead of the allurements of a city practice. The principal portion of his office pupilage was under the direction of Dr. Nelson Nivison, then of Mecklenburgh, Tompkins County, N. Y., now professor of physiology and pathology in the Medical Department of the Syracuse University. Dr. Fisher attended his first …

He has been the recipient of many honors, among which was the honorary degree of Master of Arts, in 1859, from Madison University ; twice the presidency of the Medical Society of Westchester County; in 1864, vicepresident of theMedical Society of the State of New York, and in 1874 president of the same ; corresponding member of the Boston Gynaecological Society ; Fellow of the …

They embrace a variety of interesting topics; among them are the following titles : '' Biographical Sketches of Deceased Physicians of Westchester County, N. Y." (1861) ; " On the Animal Substances employed as Medicines by the Ancients" (1862); " Diploteratology," or an essay on " Double-Monsters " (Trans, of the Med. Soc. of the State of y. Y., 1865-68) ; "A Brief History of …

His library, which is quite well known to the medical scholars of the country, contains about four thousand volumes, including many of the rarest books now existing, in most of the departments of the healing art. There is, perhaps, no collection of the medical classics equal to his to be found in private hands in the United States. It includes large series of works …

The latter department is quite rich in specimens of the stone implements of the American aborigines. It is to Dr. Fisher that we are indebted for the history of the town of Ossining, which forms one of the chapters of this work. THE JAY FAMILY. The Jay family,* so well-known throughout Westchester County, and indeed throughout the whole 'country, trace their ancestry to Pierre …

Dragoons were quartered in his house, and his family were subjected to serious annoyance. He was imprisoned in the castle of Rochelle, but was released through the influence of some Roman Catholic connections. Having at the time several vessels out at sea which were expected soon in port, he desired a Protestant pilot in his employ to take the first of these vessels that …

In 1697 he married, in New York Anna Maria, daughter of Balthazar Bayard, the descendant of a Protestant professor of theology at Paris in the reign of Louis XIII., who had been compelled to leave Paris and take refuge with his wife and children in Holland ; whence several members of the family came to America. Mrs. Jay was a woman of eminent piety. It is mentioned that she …

to New York, where he lived uutil his death, October 20, 1815. On his return from Enghmd in 1784 or 1785, he brought propositions from the Countess of Huntington to some of the States of the Union, for establishing settlements of emigrants among the Indians, with a view to civilizing them, and converting them to Christianity. General Washington in a letter to him dated January …

In 1778 he was elected president of Congress. In 1779 he was sent as Minister to Spain, and from thence, in 1780, went to Pans as Commissioner to assist in the negotiation of a treaty of peace with Great Britain. He returned to New York in 1784, after an absence of five years, and was received with tokens of esteem and admiration. December 21, 1784, he was appointed by …