FREDERICK HENRY COLTON, son of Jacob and Clarinda (Robinson) Colton, was born April 24, 1839, at Long- meadow, Mass
He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass He was a member of the crew of the Varuna, and of the University crew in 1859. After graduation he taught school a year in Brooklyn, N Y, and then took the course in the Long Island College Hospital, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1864.
From 1863 to 1865 he was in the United States Army as acting assistant surgeon in various camps and hospitals in and about the city of Washington.
Since then he had been in general medical practice in Brooklyn, and had been for thirty years visiting physician at the Long Island College Hospital, St John's Hospital, the Brooklyn Home for Aged Men and Couples, and after long filling the office of secretary of the directors of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital was chosen president. He was a trustee and deacon of the Church of the Pilgrims.
Dr Colton died fiom cardio-vascular degeneration after a week's illness at his home in Brooklyn, March 16, 1912, in his 73d year.
He married in Brooklyn, October 25, 1865, E Alice, daughter of Rev Alonzo Gray, D D (B A Amherst 1834), who was the principal of the Brooklyn Heights Seminary
for Girls, and Sarah Hurd (Phillips; Gray. Mrs Colton died February 1, 1890.
They had five sons and four daughters. One of the thiee surviving sons graduated from Columbia University as a Bachelor of Philosophy in Architecture m 1890, and the other two from the Academical Department at Yale in 1892 and 1896, respectively.
He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass He was a member of the crew of the Varuna, and of the University crew in 1859. After graduation he taught school a year in Brooklyn, N Y, and then took the course in the Long Island College Hospital, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1864.
From 1863 to 1865 he was in the United States Army as acting assistant surgeon in various camps and hospitals in and about the city of Washington.
Since then he had been in general medical practice in Brooklyn, and had been for thirty years visiting physician at the Long Island College Hospital, St John's Hospital, the Brooklyn Home for Aged Men and Couples, and after long filling the office of secretary of the directors of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital was chosen president. He was a trustee and deacon of the Church of the Pilgrims.
Dr Colton died fiom cardio-vascular degeneration after a week's illness at his home in Brooklyn, March 16, 1912, in his 73d year.
He married in Brooklyn, October 25, 1865, E Alice, daughter of Rev Alonzo Gray, D D (B A Amherst 1834), who was the principal of the Brooklyn Heights Seminary
for Girls, and Sarah Hurd (Phillips; Gray. Mrs Colton died February 1, 1890.
They had five sons and four daughters. One of the thiee surviving sons graduated from Columbia University as a Bachelor of Philosophy in Architecture m 1890, and the other two from the Academical Department at Yale in 1892 and 1896, respectively.
FREDERICK HENRY COLTON, son of Jacob and Clarinda (Robinson) Colton, was born April 24, 1839, at Long- meadow, Mass
He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass He was a member of the crew of the Varuna, and of the University crew in 1859. After graduation he taught school a year in Brooklyn, N Y, and then took the course in the Long Island College Hospital, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1864.
From 1863 to 1865 he was in the United States Army as acting assistant surgeon in various camps and hospitals in and about the city of Washington.
Since then he had been in general medical practice in Brooklyn, and had been for thirty years visiting physician at the Long Island College Hospital, St John's Hospital, the Brooklyn Home for Aged Men and Couples, and after long filling the office of secretary of the directors of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital was chosen president. He was a trustee and deacon of the Church of the Pilgrims.
Dr Colton died fiom cardio-vascular degeneration after a week's illness at his home in Brooklyn, March 16, 1912, in his 73d year.
He married in Brooklyn, October 25, 1865, E Alice, daughter of Rev Alonzo Gray, D D (B A Amherst 1834), who was the principal of the Brooklyn Heights Seminary
for Girls, and Sarah Hurd (Phillips; Gray. Mrs Colton died February 1, 1890.
They had five sons and four daughters. One of the thiee surviving sons graduated from Columbia University as a Bachelor of Philosophy in Architecture m 1890, and the other two from the Academical Department at Yale in 1892 and 1896, respectively.
He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass He was a member of the crew of the Varuna, and of the University crew in 1859. After graduation he taught school a year in Brooklyn, N Y, and then took the course in the Long Island College Hospital, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1864.
From 1863 to 1865 he was in the United States Army as acting assistant surgeon in various camps and hospitals in and about the city of Washington.
Since then he had been in general medical practice in Brooklyn, and had been for thirty years visiting physician at the Long Island College Hospital, St John's Hospital, the Brooklyn Home for Aged Men and Couples, and after long filling the office of secretary of the directors of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital was chosen president. He was a trustee and deacon of the Church of the Pilgrims.
Dr Colton died fiom cardio-vascular degeneration after a week's illness at his home in Brooklyn, March 16, 1912, in his 73d year.
He married in Brooklyn, October 25, 1865, E Alice, daughter of Rev Alonzo Gray, D D (B A Amherst 1834), who was the principal of the Brooklyn Heights Seminary
for Girls, and Sarah Hurd (Phillips; Gray. Mrs Colton died February 1, 1890.
They had five sons and four daughters. One of the thiee surviving sons graduated from Columbia University as a Bachelor of Philosophy in Architecture m 1890, and the other two from the Academical Department at Yale in 1892 and 1896, respectively.
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