The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . f age, when his fa-thers family removed to Hobart, N. Y., wherethey engaged in the business of milling, having ex-changed the farm for a grist mill, and the districtschool was exch
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . f age, when his fa-thers family removed to Hobart, N. Y., wherethey engaged in the business of milling, having ex-changed the farm for a grist mill, and the districtschool was exchanged for the village high school,and from that the Ashland collegiate institute andbusiness college, followed by a course at the FortEdward institute, prepared him to take up thestudy of medicine, to which he then applied him-self, studying in the office of his uncle, Dr. Solo-mon Greene of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and fromthei-e entering the Albany medical college. Whilein Albany he was for two years a student in the of-fice of Dr. Alden March, one of Americas mostnoted surgeons. Before graduating he served twoyears as assistant and house physician of the Albanycity hospital, and a term as house physician of theAlbany almshouse and insane asylum hospitals. InDecember, ] 866, he received his degree in medicine,and was graduated with the highest honors, beingvaledictorian of his class. He went to AVeedsport,. N. Y., but soon after removed to Saratoga study after graduation with specialists renderedhim proficient in gynecology, obstetrics, microscopy,electro-therapeutics, and in the treatment of the eyeand ear. In obstetrics he had a remarkable success,attending over 1,300 cases iu the first twenty yearsof his practice, and was one of the first practitionersoutside the large cities to employ chloroform andforceps systematically. His practice extended farbeyond his neighborhood into the adjacent a gynecologist he was eminently successful, andthe president o
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