. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . the early boyhood of our subject was WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE ((UNTIES. PENNSYLVANIA. spent in the hard work of New England farming,varied by attending the common district schoolsin winter, and there he grew physically andmentally, and picked up a little of education inthings practical and tilings theoretical, princi-pally the former. When sixteen years of agehe went to Newark, N. J., and learned thehatter trade, but he broke down in health andhad to return to (lonnecticut. There he followedhis trade for a time and then w
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . the early boyhood of our subject was WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE ((UNTIES. PENNSYLVANIA. spent in the hard work of New England farming,varied by attending the common district schoolsin winter, and there he grew physically andmentally, and picked up a little of education inthings practical and tilings theoretical, princi-pally the former. When sixteen years of agehe went to Newark, N. J., and learned thehatter trade, but he broke down in health andhad to return to (lonnecticut. There he followedhis trade for a time and then went into a health, the old Glen Haven Water Cure at thehead of Skaneateles Lake, New York, and therewas opened to him the avenue of life and use-fulness which he has since followed. He be-came interested in this system of cure there invogue, studied it and resolved to devote his lifeto the practice of it* principles. In 1858 heformed a partnership with two others, and withJames C. Jackson as physician-in-chief, theyopened what is now known as the Dansville. /^J£^^ machine-shop and learned to make surgicalinstruments. All of the time he was support-ing himself, but making little headway beyondthat, for he had poor health, and finally, to im-prove that, he went to sea. He was principallyengaged in coasting, but made a voyage aroundCape Horn to San Francisco, and returned byway of Callao and the Chinchi Islands. Hefollowed sea-faring for nine years, during thelatter part of the period serving as an engineeron a steamer. In 1807 he visited, for the benefit of his Water (Hire, in Livingston County, N. ten years Dr. Hurd (who had in the meantime acquired his title by proper process) had adaily average of one hundred patients in hiscare, and had charge of all the mechanicalappliances in this large institution-. At the ex-piration of that ten years, in 1868, he sold out,and in 1871 came to Monro;1 County, having,as already related, made choice of his presentlocation as containin
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