Binghamton, its settlement, growth and development . ealth, he retired and returned to Susquehanna, practicingin that borough until he came to this city in July, 1893. It is properto mention that Dr. Yelvington took up Eclecticism only after he leftthe army, and from that time he was a distinguished representative ofthat school of medicine. He organized the Susquehanna Eclectic Med-ical society in 1870, and in 1874 assisted in the organization of the StateEclectic Medical association; and when the association received a char-ter in 1876, Dr. Yelvington was chosen its president. In 1877 theEcle
Binghamton, its settlement, growth and development . ealth, he retired and returned to Susquehanna, practicingin that borough until he came to this city in July, 1893. It is properto mention that Dr. Yelvington took up Eclecticism only after he leftthe army, and from that time he was a distinguished representative ofthat school of medicine. He organized the Susquehanna Eclectic Med-ical society in 1870, and in 1874 assisted in the organization of the StateEclectic Medical association; and when the association received a char-ter in 1876, Dr. Yelvington was chosen its president. In 1877 theEclectic Medical college conferred on him the honorary degree of , in recognition of his prominence and the work he had done for theschool. He was a member of the State Eclectic Medical societies ofNew York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and an hon-orary member of the National Eclectic Medical society. Dr. Yelving-tons wife, whom he married December 25, 1857, was Sarah Osborn ofPoughkeepsie; seven children were born of this DR. JOHN G. ORTON. GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 419 SKETCHES OF PRESENT PHYSICIANS. John Gay Orton is a native of Seneca Falls, N. Y., born December 5,1827, and is the son of the late Rev. Azariah G. Orton, D. D. Hisgrandfather was Azariah Orton, of Tyringham, Mass., a revolutionarypatriot and a soldier in Gen. Gates army. The family is of Englishextraction and is descended from Thomas Orton, the immigrant ances-tor who settled in Charlestown, Mass., in 1636, and thence removed toWindsor, Conn., in 1641. His descendants, like all New Englanders,became scattered with the settlement and growth of the country, andthus Rev. Azariah G. Orton, a Presbyterian clergyman and a graduateof Williams college, became pastor of a church at Seneca Falls, in centralNew York. John G. Orton was given a thorough academic education,after which he entered the medical department of the University ofNew York, where he was graduated in the spring of 1853. A port
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