This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_915919765_boundary Content-ID: <0_915919765@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII And this is the last one......you can view the other Pioneer Sketches at: http://www.gremlan.org/~yoset/ Enjoy! Bev ****************************************************************************** *************** Researching the following Crawford Co. Families: Adsit * Gibson * Mattocks * Putnam * Whiting * Fetterman * McDowell * Hood * Mushrush * Fisher * Crozier * Birch/Burch * Grinnell * Wescoat/Westcott * Gaskill * Staley * Taylor * Mook * Reed * Williams * McFaden/McFadden * Johnson * Garwood * Hill * McGranahan * Seeley * Bates/Betts * Hutcheson * ****************************************************************************** *************** --part0_915919765_boundary Content-ID: <0_915919765@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: BJHErie@aol.com Return-path: <BJHErie@aol.com> To: yoset@gremlan.org Cc: BJHErie@aol.com Subject: H.B. Hotchkiss Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 16:45:45 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit S.B. HOTCHKISS The subject of this sketch was born in a log house situated in Cussewago Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in May, 1842. His parents were poor, and just commencing life upon a new farm. His father, Henry, came to this Country from New Haven, Connecticut, in the year 1809, and was of French descent. His mother, Esther, was a descendant of an English family that came from Hartford, Connecticut. He had one brother and four sisters, and was the elder of the brothers, and, as is usual, had to take the brunt in helping his father clear the land and prepare it for cultivation. He worked upon the farm summers and lumbered winters, with very few and limited educational advantages, until his twentieth year. At this time, it is said, he could scarcely write his name legibly, but the latent powers of the aspiring youth, so long held in check by circumstances, soon began to develop themselves, and, with an indomitable perseverance, he mastered everything in his studies that he undertook. The winter of the same year he attended district school, after which he helped his father on the farm until fall, when he attended his first term of school away from home, -at Kingsville, Ohio, -procured his means by economizing time: working rainy weather and nights when his father would not require him to work for him. At the close of the term he came home, intending to enlist in defense of his country; but the schools being left without teachers, he was persuaded to teach during the winter, at the close of which he returned to the farm. The next fall he went to Kingsville Academy again. After its close he took charge of the Mosiertown Academy, and taught there for two years. About the time he was about to close his labors in teaching, his father's house with its entire contents, including his own library and clothing, was destroyed by fire. Added to this comparatively light affliction was the death of his only brother while in his country's service. Actuated by that noble sympathy a child ought to have for a parent, he spared no means in his power to console and render comfortable his bereaved parents and sisters. Consequently, he stayed at home and helped his father rebuild a house, and saw him once more comfortably circumstanced. Having procured means by teaching for a more extensive education, he attended the Northwestern State Normal School at Edinboro' for nearly two years. Having acquired a fair knowledge of Greek, Latin, mathematics, and the sciences, he thought himself qualified to commence the study of medicine. Accordingly, he enrolled his name as a student with Dr. William Gamble, of Mosiertown, in the year 1865, and studied with him three years, including six months spent at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City. Feeling the great responsbility of the medical practitioner, and having a disgust for quacks and half-educated men in all professions, especially that which deals with that most complicated and intricate machine- the human system, - he determined to qualify himself as thoroughly as possible for his chosen profession. He therefore ceased his medical studies for the present, and attended Allegheny College for two years. In the autumn of 1870 he again returned to Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and graduated at that institution with reputation in March of 1871; returned to Allegheny College, and graduated there in June of the same year. In the fall of 1871 he located at Edinboro', and engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery. As a practitioner, he has met with excellent success; has an extensive business, and merited the confidence of the entire community. As a man, he is strictly honest, courteous, and always cheerful. He is industrious; attends strictly to his own business, and, by economy, is accumulating a fair share of this world's goods. He is a gentleman of pure morals; never was known to indulge in the use of profane language, tobacco, or ardent spirits. Is a firm believer in the Bible, and the great distinctive principles therein taught, as exemplified in the life and character of our Saviour; is a gentleman of good motives, ability, and clear judgment, possessing an even, well-balanced temperament. He has a good physical organization, and we predict for him a long life, full of usefulness and honor. --part0_915919765_boundary--