The Humphreys family in America - citizen hylbom blog

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His influence in introducing and building up Homeopath}- in Central and Western New York
was wide-Spread and potent. He supplied the deficiency of many of the practitioners of the school
in that day, —a comprehensive knowledge of the literature and practice of both schools, an experi-
ence of nearly forty years, a brilliant professional record, and a commanding personal appearance,
and forensic talents of a high order, and these were fully consecrated to the promotion of the
cause which had commanded his convictions, his judgment, and his heart.
He was a man of resources, possessing great versatility of talent, never annoyed or muddled,
however many things or subjects he had on hand. He was always a great reader, the first in
everything, acquainted with all subjects, and an authority in all that was new, recondite, or out
of the every-day lines of thought. As early as 1830, he called attention to the then new disease.
Cholera, in an address to the Cayuga County ^Medical Societv, which was published and widely
circulated, in which he traced its march and predicted its appearance in Western Europe and in
this country.
A man of fine personal appearance, six feet two in height, and weighing over two hundred
pounds, of engaging manners, and polished address, a fine conversationalist and ready speaker,
he was one whose presence and address would naturally command attention in any assembly.
He was scrupulously neat, almost fastidious, in dress and equipage; and as faultless in expression
and language.
He was too versatile and visionary to succeed in making large accumulations, though he
always maintained his reputable position and honestly paid his debts. In his later years his
younger son. Dr. Frederick Humphreys, was in practice with him and had often occasion to
admire his great fertility of resources, coolness and wisdom in emergencies.
Children:
2638. I. Lai-r.\ Ann, 7 b. 17 May, 1806, Canton, Ct. ; died at Auburn. X. V., 20 July, 1828,
a-. 22 years. She was unmarried.
2639. II. Julius," b. 30 Mch., 1808, Canton, Ct. : married Eliza Ann L;ithrop. Family 38G.
2640. III. GuY,7 b. 31 Mch., 1810, Marcellus, N. Y. ; was lost at sea, with the brig Panama,
Captain Peters, of which Silas E. Burrows, of New York, was the owner. The
brig left New York, November 4th, 1830, and was spoken in the Straits of Magellan,
December, 1830;—was never afterward heard from.
2641. IV. Erastus,? b. 9 Apr., 1812, IMarcellus, N. Y. ; died there, 25 Aug., 1813, a;, i year,
and 4 months.
2642. V. George,' b. 15 Mch., 1814, Marcellus, N. Y. ; married Lucia Williams Grosvenor.
Fajiily 387.
2643. \'I. Frederick,' b. 11 Mch., 1816, Marcellus, N. Y. ; m.
Frances Maria Sperry. Family 388.
(i) Cornelia Palmer; m. (2)
2644. VII. Martha Adeline,' 1 \ died at Auburn, N. Y., 23
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Sept., 1842, K. 22 years.
b. 30 Nov., 181 9, Marcellus, N. Y, ; She was unmarried.
died there, 26 Mch., 1820.
2645. VIII. :\lAKy Angeline,' |
[ a\ 4 months.
2646. IX. Makv Angeline,' b. 12 Nov., 1821, Marcellus, N. Y. ; died in Nashville, Tenn.,
25 Sept., 1840, x. 18 years. She was married by the Rev. Dr. Wheat, at
Nashville, Tenn., 27 May, 1840, to Elijah Morton.
2647. X. Chloe Cornelia,' b. 10 Oct., 1823, Auburn, N. Y. ; died at Benicia, Cal., 9 Nov.,
1861, £e. 38 years. She was married by the Rev. Pierre Alexis Proal, D. 1).. in
Trinity Church, Utica, N. Y., 28 Sept., 1848, to Charles Wesley Hayden, uf