Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation . e medical and surgical practiceand opened a sanitarium for the treatment ofnervous, mental and functional disorders bythe then almost unknown methods of psycho-theraphy. In 1893 ne purchased the fine oldestate of Marius Schoonmaker, in Kingston,anil in 1898 founded there the first mentalhealing sanitarium in America. From thefirst the success of the undertaking was phe-nomenal, and it was but a short time be
Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation . e medical and surgical practiceand opened a sanitarium for the treatment ofnervous, mental and functional disorders bythe then almost unknown methods of psycho-theraphy. In 1893 ne purchased the fine oldestate of Marius Schoonmaker, in Kingston,anil in 1898 founded there the first mentalhealing sanitarium in America. From thefirst the success of the undertaking was phe-nomenal, and it was but a short time beforehe was compelled to make extensive addi-tions to the building, and to erect others, be-sides taking in all the available cottages andextra rooms in the neighborhood; and in iqiihe erected a handsome, five story, stone stnture to accommodate the patients who caito him from all parts of the world. Hethe author of the book Psychic Life aLaws, is a contributor to several magazinand for a time occupied the chair of NerveDiseases and Suggestive Therapeutics of tpost-graduate school of Eastern College aof the Psychological Medical Society at ITadelphia. He has been vice-president of t. SOUTHERN NEW YORK 517 American Association of Physicians and Sur-geons, and is a member of the AmericanPsychological Medical and Surgical Society,ami of the Medico-Legal Society, and haslectured before the Phrenological Instituteand Medical and Psychic Study societies ofNew York and New Jersey. He is a mem-ber of Kingston Lodge, Free and AcceptedMasons; Mount Horeb Chapter, and RondoutCommandery, Knights Templar. He married,in 1880, Jennie, daughter of James and Sarah(Alligerj Sahler, referred to above. Child(adcpted) : Nellie, daughter of Simon Daven-port and Jennie (Sahler) Davenport. (The Du Bois Line.) The Du Bois family is one of the oldest ofthe noble houses of Cotentin, in the duchyof Normandy, the heraldic records in Parisbeginning with Geoffroi du Bois, a knightbanneret, and a companion of
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