The History of Cayuga County 1789-1879 page 462
Town of Moravia

1812. After a short practice he removed to Ohio, where he became successful, and died there a few years ago. Richard S. Satterlee commenced practice with Dr. Annable about 1820, and continued till 1824, when he removed to Green Bay, Mich., where he became and has since continued to be a surgeon in the army. He is now Surgeon General in New York. Dr. Chatterton practiced from 1820 to '24. He lived two and one-half miles north of Moravia. Chas. E. Ford commenced practice here in 1820, and continued about ten years, when he went west. Jeremiah B. Whiting joined the County Medical Society February 2d, 1826, and practiced in the north part of the town till 1832, when he removed to Michigan. He was from Dutchess county. Grove Gage, from DeRuyter, came in about 1822, and practiced some three years with Dr. Annable, with whom he finished his studies. He removed to Chautauqua county, near Fredonia, where he is now living. Jared Wheeler joined the County Medical Society November 1st, 1821, and practiced here a year or two. Lucius Lilley joined the County Medical Society August 7th, 1828, and practiced till about 1832, when he removed to Monroe county, which he represented in the Assembly in 1841, and where he soon after died of consumption.

Wm. W. Alley came to Moravia from Sullivan county with his father, in 1805, and in 1828, having prepared himself by study, he commenced the practice of medicine, subsequently conforming his practice to the principles of homeopathy, which system be still practices.

Hilem Bennett, who joined the County Medical Society August 7th, 1828, while residing in Fleming, commenced practice in Moravia in that year, and continued till 1845, when he removed to Rochester, where he practiced till his death. He was an early convert to homeopathy. Silas N. Hall became a member of the County Medical Society November 5th, 1818, and commenced practice in Moravia about 1835, continuing till about 1840, when he removed to McLean, Tompkins county. He came here from Montville, where he had previously practiced. Dr. Derbyshire moved in from Montville about 1828, and practiced some three years. George W. Branch, who joined the County Medical Society June 6th, 1844, practiced here from about 1836 to '49, when he removed to Mount Morris. He now resides at Nunda. Elias Branch came in from Venice in 1838, and practiced some three years, when he removed to Mount Morris, where he now lives.

Dr. Cator, the second convert to homeopathy in Cayuga County, came in from Sempronius and practiced from 1839 till the fall of. 1842, when he removed to Syracuse and introduced the new system of medicine in Onondaga county. E. P. K. Smith, a student of Bennett's, being left, by the removal of the latter to Rochester, without a preceptor, turned his attention to the study of homeopathy, which he practiced from 1841 till 1862, when he removed to Auburn, where he died some four years ago.

Cyrus Powers, a native of Sempronius, settled in Moravia and commenced practice in 1845, in which year he became a member of the County Medical Society. He has since practiced here, with the exception of two years spent in American and foreign travel, and four years' service as army surgeon in the war of the Rebellion. Dr. Powers is a gentleman of culture, good scholastic attainments, and a skillful physician.

Charles C. Jewett, a native of Moravia, joined the County Medical Society October 12th, 1864, and practiced here during the late war. He died here in 1870, universally lamented. Van Dyke Tripp, who now resides in Onondaga county, practiced here in 1863-'4. Elias Mead, the present postmaster at Moravia, practiced here from about 1865-'9. A. B. Aiken joined the County Medical Society in January, 1869, and has since practiced here. Win. T. Cox, a native of Moravia, came in from Milan and commenced practice in 1873. He is an allopath and is still practicing here. Frank H. Putnam came here in 1875, and joined the County Medical Society May 10th, 1876. He removed to Venice, and in 1876 to Locke, where he is now practicing. J. H. Sylvester came from Washington, D. C., where he was clerk in the Pension Office, in 1876, and still remains. Wm. Cook came in from Butternuts about 1875, and is still practicing here.

BENCH AND BAR. - The bar of Moravia has embraced men of good ability. The first lawyer of any prominence in the town was Jonathan Hussey, who had a large and lucrative practice, connected with the titles of real estate in southern Cayuga. He was a careful manager, and quite successful; but he relied less upon his own,

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