Medical Profession

From the "History of Lewis County in the State of New York,"

Franklin B. Hough, 1860, pages 291-2
A county medical society was early formed, under the act of 1806, and was represented at the state society in 1808, by Jonathan Bush, and in 1810 by John Safford. The loss of its records by fire, Oct. 15, 1849, has thrown oblivion over the proceedings of this body. Its seal had for its device an open lancet, and the letters L. C. M. S. in script, entwined. The statute, requiring a copy of the credentials of physicians, to be filed in the clerk's office, has enabled us to prepare the following list. It does not embrace every regularly qualified physician who has resided in the county, as some of the earlier ones, filed their papers in Oneida county, and quite a number of the mroe recent may have neglected this duty, or the papers may have been mislaid or accidentally overlooked. This list will therefore be regarded as positive only so far as it goes. 

Adams, Ira, June 17, 1817

Adams, Seth, May 21, 1826

Allen, Ebenezer, Nov 24, 1842

Allen, Samuel, Feb 21, 1806

Avery, Stephen W., Jul 2, 1821

Bagg, Henry, Aug 26, 1846

Bartholomew, Erasmus D., May 31, 1825

Bass, Samuel, Sep 15, 1812

Bates, William, Jun 26, 1832

Bischoff, Frederick, Apr 30, 1856

Bliss, John S., Sep 6, 1843

Bradish, James S., Mar 19, 1855

Buckley, Lyman, Feb 26, 1841

Budd, Charles D., Jun 20, 1849

Budd, David, Jan 3, 1832

Dewey, Walter, Jan 1, 1807

Dickinson, Noah, Sep 11, 1807

Foot, Anson, Feb 25, 1806

French, Elkanah, Sep 8, 1833

Gage, Alden, jr., Aug 14, 1813

Hanon, Dennis B., Jan 16, 1844

Hastings, Charles P., Mar 21, 1842

Hawn, Abraham, Jan 6, 1832

Huntingdon, Ralph, Jan 29, 1808

Jerome, Levi R., Mar 12, 1844

Kellogg, Joseph, Apr 3, 1843

Miller David, Mar 19, 1818

Miller, Sylvester, Feb 12, 1816

Orvis, Charles, Oct 1, 1836

Peden, James T., Jan 26, 1844

Perry, David, Aug 12, 1806

Shaw, Otis, Oct 25, 1833

Stevens, S. Rodney, Jul 10, 1829

Stone, A. C., Jul 6, 1842

Sturtevant, James M., Jul 19, 1834

Sweet, Jonathan, Jul 11, 1805

Taylor, Francis L., Aug 1, 1832

Thompson, William, Jul 18, 1832

Wait, Samuel C., Apr 10, 1833

Wellman, Manly, Jul 19, 1805

Whiting, John, Dec 15, 1826

Wood, Charles, May 3, 1836

Woodman, Joseph, May 3, 1830
Contributed by  Lisa K. Slaski  September 2001

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