Seneca Falls Historical Society
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Excerpt from Seneca Falls Historical Society: 1908 To prepare a history of the Medical Society of Seneca County, New York, that would include a detailed description of the progress of the profession and a biographical sketch of its most prominent members would be no small task, and would also necessitate a paper of too great a length to be read at an occasion of this kind. I have, therefore, decided to speak of those members of the profession only who were our pioneers in this county and of those who by their distinguished services to their country and to their fellow men have left a worthy record of their career. It is interesting to know that in May of the year 1793, the year when France was in the most violent throes of her dreadful revolution, that Silas Halsey of Southampton, Long Island, the first physician of this county, brought a little company of eighteen persons, including his family and one slave, in a flat boat through Seneca lake and landed near where Lodi now is. The year before Dr. Halsey had selected the place for his home and had cleared six acres of land, returning in the fall to Southampton for his family. Dr. Halsey was a man of education and resource, and practiced his profession while superintending and assisting with the building of his house and cultivation of his land. His ability as a man of affairs was recognized, and as the county became more thickly settled he was elected to the offices of justice, supervisor, state senator and finally member of Congress. His professional work was so interrupted by these positions of trust that he finally withdrew from active practice and his business was carried on by his son-in-law, Jared Sanford. Dr. Jared Sanford was another of the pioneers of the profession of this county. He received his academic education at Columbia college, New York city, during the years 1793 and 1794 and, having the spirit of adventure, decided to go to the West and study medicine with his former neighbor, Dr. Halsey. Dr. Sanford was a successful practitioner and was specially well thought of as a surgeon. Exposure and hard work in a new country wore him out, however. Dr. Lewis Halsey, a son of Dr. Silas Halsey, formed another member of this group. All these men left large families and still have many descendants in this county. During the time that Dr. Halsey and his sons were establishing themselves in the southwestern part of our county other physicians were finding homes and fields of labor in the northern part. Dr. Gardner Wells, a graduate of the College of Physicians & Surgeons of New York city, settled in Junius, but left his practice to become a surgeon in the army during the war of 1812. During his absence Dr. Lewis Ely came to Junius on a visit, and, as there was need for a physician in the neighborhood, he remained and took up the practice of Dr. Wells. At the close of the war, when Dr. Wells returned, he and Dr. Ely became partners and continued to practice in this way until Dr. Wells moves to Waterloo. Dr. Ely remained in Junius and was a successful and much loved physician for many years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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