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Page 659 MEMOIR OF NATHANIEL M. PERRY, M. D.
BY JOHN C. JAMISON, M. D., OF STEUBEN COUNTY. The late Dr. Nathaniel Mallary Perry was born February 26, 1817, in Troupsburg, Steuben County, N. Y., and died April 3, 1894, at his residence in the town of his birth, being seventy-seven years of age. His ancestors were originally from England. He sprang from a patriotic stock, both his paternal and maternal grandfathers served as soldiers in the Revolution of 1776. His father settled in Troupsburg, N. Y., in 1808, and cleared up a farm from the primitive woods for a home and raised a family of seven children, and of this number the subject of our sketch was one. At the age of twenty-one he attended the Middlebury Academy at Wyoming County, N. Y., remaining there until he completed an academic course, when he returned to Jasper, N. Y., and entered the office of Dr. Wm. Hunter for the study of medicine. He graduated at Geneva Medical College in 1845, after which he opened an office for the practice of his profession in the town of his birth. He had practiced nearly fifty years when he died. At different times he performed the duties of superintendent of schools, supervisor, and one term in the legislature of the state of New York (1851). He was master of McClellan Lodge, No. 649, several terms, and a member of several medical societies, the most prominent of which were the New York State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. In closing this short memoir we will add the following quotation from a former historian of Steuben County, namely,—"All in all, Dr. Perry is a man of broad charity, sound judgment, high character and integrity, a representative man in the worthiest sense of the term, and an aid in building up and advancing the best interests of society." |
