. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Dr. Joshua B. Graves was born in Bridport, Addison Co., Vt., Dec. 14, 1806. His father, Increase Graves, was clergyman of the Congregational Church, and for forty years was pastor of one church at Bridport, Vt., remaining there until his death, which occurred at the age of eighty years. His mother, whose maiden name was Stetson, sister of the first of the name who kept the Astor House of New York
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Dr. Joshua B. Graves was born in Bridport, Addison Co., Vt., Dec. 14, 1806. His father, Increase Graves, was clergyman of the Congregational Church, and for forty years was pastor of one church at Bridport, Vt., remaining there until his death, which occurred at the age of eighty years. His mother, whose maiden name was Stetson, sister of the first of the name who kept the Astor House of New York City, died at the age of upwards of eighty years at Bridport, Vt. Dr. Graves spent his minority until he was eighteen on the farm and attending common school. He received an academical education at Castleton, Vt., remaining there one and a half years. About the time of reaching his majority he entered the Vermont Academy of Medicine, under Prof. Woodward, from which he was graduated in the year 1828, having been for two years previous to his graduation assistant surgeon in the surgical and anatomical departments of that institution. Dr. Graves commenced the practice of medicine in the city of Troy, N. Y., where he remained for five years. For the following two years he was a student of theology with N. S. S. Beaman, , and at the end of that time was ordained in his father's pulpit in Vermont, and was successively a pastor of a church at Stockbridge, Mass., for one year; for one year at Otego, N. Y.; for two years at Deposit, N. Y.; and five years at Honesdale, Pa.; and in the year 1842 settled in Corning, N. Y., and was pastor of the Presbyterian Church of this place for three years. During the first year after coming to Corning he resumed the practice of medicine and surgery, and has remained in the practice of his chosen profession until the present time. His ride extends through not only Steuben County, but in adjacent counties, and espe- cially in surgery he is ca
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