New York Society 
FOR THE 
Relief of Widows and Orphans 
OF 
MEDICAL MEN. 
INCORPORATED 1843. 
Constitution and Laws. 
TO WHICH IS ANNEXED 
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY, AND A COMPLETE 
LIST OF MEMBERS AND BENEFACTORS. 
NEW YORK: 
BAKER & GODWIN, PRINTERS, 
PRINTING-HOUSE SQUARE. 
1870. HISTORICAL SKETCH. 
The History of this Society may be written in few words: At one of a series 
of social gatherings of the profession, at the house of Dr. Edward Delafield, in 
the winter and spring of 1842, the idea of founding a society for the aid of the 
destitute widows and orphans of medical men, which had for some time been 
a favorite notion with the host, was formally suggested to his guests, and by 
them cordially received. The subject was fully discussed, and a committee 
was appointed to bring it to the notice of the profession. This was on the 30tli 
of March, 1842. 
The committee, which consisted of Drs. Delafield, Thos. Cock, J. Kearney 
Rodgers, F. U. Johnston, and H. D. Bulkley, addressed a circular to the profes- 
sion, and called a meeting, which was held on the 12th of May, in the Library of 
the Lyceum of Natural History. At this meeting a plan or provisional basis of 
organization was presented by Dr. Delafield, and adopted; but this was shortly 
after superseded by a more elaborate code of laws, which was established (after 
discussion) at the meeting of November 26, 1842. 
Somewhat more than one hundred signatures were obtained; but of the 
signers, nearly one half failed to complete their membership; so that, at the close 
of the year 1843, when the first additions were made by election, the total num- 
ber of members was only sixty. No new members were chosen in 1844, though 
in September of that year a circular was addressed to every regular member of 
the profession in the city and vicinity, calling attention to the objects of the 
Society, and soliciting co-operation. Only four new members were obtained in 
1846, and the same number in 1846; while the deaths and withdrawals were 
about as numerous. In 1848 the membership numbered only eighty, and it 
scarcely rose above this figure for eight years more, at the end of which period it 
numbered ninety. After 1868 the number ranged between one hundred and one 
hundred and ten, till 186*7, when, at the close of a quarter of a century, the 
Society only numbered one hundred and one. At the anniversary dinner of that 
year, however, a good deal of interest was manifested, which resulted in a con- 
siderable increase of members; and, at the present date, the roll of members 
amounts to one hundred and twenty-five. Of these, one hundred and three are 
members for life. 
Up to this time the entire number of those who have ever belonged to the 
Society is two hundred and twenty-four. 
The Society has received but little aid from any but its actual members. The 
first contribution to its funds from a layman was from Augustus Henry Ward, 
Esq., who made himself a benefactor in 1851. Mr. Ward continued to take an 
interest in the Society up to the time of his death, having on several occasions 4 
made donations, and given the requisite sums to constitute new life members, 
and in his will leaving it a legacy of three thousand dollars. Only four other 
laymen have thus far constituted themselves benefactors, viz.: A. Macdonald, 
Esq. ; Edward B. Little, Esq.; John Alstyne, Esq.; and Eleazar Parmelee, Esq. 
Mr. Ward’s legacy, and one of one thousand dollars from Miss Catherine 
Eckert, are the only legacies the Society has yet received from persons outside 
of the medical profession; and, with the handsome bequest of ten thousand 
dollars from Dr. Jacob Harsen (who, though he had never practised medicine, 
always kept up his interest in the profession, and at the time of his death was 
Vice-President of the Society), and the legacy of three hundred dollars from 
Dr. John A. Swett, to make three life members, constitute the only bequests the 
Society has received from any source. 
The handsome donations of one thousand dollars from Dr. Delafield, and of 
three hundred dollars from Dr. A. Dubois, deserve to be recorded. Dr. Dubois 
has further contributed to the funds of the Society the sum of seven hundred 
dollars, to constitute seven new life members. 
Since the year 1852, when the first application was received for relief, the 
Society has constantly afforded its aid to several of the families of its deceased 
members; and, as its funds increased, has enlarged the sphere of its beneficence 
and increased the amounts of its allowances. If we may trust the uniform and 
grateful testimony of the annuitants, these payments have effected an immense 
amount of good. 
Some facts connected with these appropriations are sufficiently interesting to 
be mentioned here. In one case, the family of a member, the whole amount of 
whose contributions to the funds of the Society was forty dollars, received in 
benefits during a series of years fully two thousand five hundred dollars. This 
helped to sustain them in a respectable position, until the children were all 
settled in life. In another instance, a member had died leaving his widow a 
handsome competence. But about ten years after his death, owing to unfortunate 
investments, her property had all been lost; and she claimed and received 
aid from the Society, and still derives a considerable sum annually from its 
funds. 
The Society is thus quietly fulfilling the beneficent purposes of its founders. 
Its funds have been husbanded with careful economy, until their gradual accumu- 
lation is sufficient to insure its continued existence. The expense of its manage- 
ment is insignificant. As it grows older, like all other similar institutions, it may 
be expected that it 'null have larger demands upon its funds, as every year will 
probably increase the number of those who become members with a view to its 
prospective benefits. In view, therefore, of what it has already accomplished, 
and of what it will doubtless perform in the future, the Medical Profession of 
New York may well cherish this Society as an object of pride and affection. 
November 1, 18*70. Constitution, 
AS BY 
ACT OF INCORPORATION, PASSED APRIL 18th, 1843. 
The people of the Slate of New York, represented in Senate and 
Assembly, do enact as follows: 
Section 1. Edward Delafield. Francis U. Johnston, John Revere, 
Isaac Wood, Henry D. Bulkley, and such other persons as now are, 
or who may hereafter be, associated with them, are hereby constituted 
a body corporate, by the name of “The New York Society for the 
Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men.” 
Sec. 2. The objects of said Society are benevolent, and to afford 
Relief to the Widows and Orphans of Medical Men. 
Sec. 3. The said corporation may purchase and hold real and 
personal estate; but the annual income of the said real and personal 
estate, which the said corporation may at any one time hold, shall 
not exceed ten thousand dollars. 
Sec. 4. All the affairs, concerns, and business of the Society, shall 
be managed and conducted by or under the direction of the follow- 
ing officers, to wit: a President, three Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, 
and twenty-one Managers, who shall be elected annually by the 
members of the Society, in such manner and at such time and place, 
in the city of New York, as the Society, by its By-Laws, may direct. 
And, until the first Thursday in October next, after the passage of 
this Act, the following-named persons shall compose the officers of 
the Society: that is to say, Edward Delafield, President; Francis 
U. Johnston, John Revere, and John Stearns, Vice-Presidents ; Isaac 6 
Wood, Treasurer; James C. Bliss, Henry D. Bulkley, William P. 
Buel, George P. Cammann, Thomas Cock, Joel Foster, John II. 
Griscom, Alexander N. Gunn, Richard K. Hoffman, Abraham T. Hun- 
ter, Moore Hoit, Jared Linsly, James Macdonald, John B. McEwen? 
William W. Miner, Valentine Mott, Willard Parker, Alfred C. 
Post, J. Kearney Rodgers, Hugh Sweeney, and James A. Washing- 
ton, Managers. 
Sec. 5. The said corporation shall possess the general powers and 
be subject to the general restrictions and liabilities prescribed in the 
third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised 
Statutes. 
Sec. 6. This Act shall take effect immediately. LAWS. 
ADOPTED MARCH 17, 1869. CONFIRMED JUNE 17, 1869. 
Article 1. 
NAME, COMPOSITION, MEETINGS. 
Section 1. This Society, known as “The New York Society 
for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men,” shall 
be composed of regular practitioners of Medicine and Surgery 
residing in the Counties of New York, Kings, Queens, Richmond, 
and Westchester. 
Sec. 2. A general meeting of the members shall be held on 
the last Wednesday in November in each year, and three days at 
least previous to such meeting a notice shall be sent by the Secre- 
tary to every member of the Society residing within its limits; and 
the said general meeting shall also be advertised in two or more of 
the daily newspapers. 
Sec. 3. At all meetings of the Society, fifteen members shall con- 
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 
Article 2. 
officers and government. 
Sec. 1. The officers of the Society shall be a President, three 
Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, and a Secretary. 
Sec. 2. The affairs of the Society shall be conducted by a Board 
of Managers, to consist of the President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, 
and twenty-one members, to be chosen as hereinafter provided. 
Sec. 3. The President, Vice-Presidents, and Treasurer shall be 
elected at the general meeting of the Society in November in each 
year, and shall hold their respective offices for one year from the first 
day of December next ensuing, and until their successors shall be 
chosen. 8 
%xiith 3. 
BOARD OF MANAGERS. 
Sec. 1. The twenty-one managers shall be divided into three 
classes of seven each, of which one class shall go out of office annually, 
according to seniority, but shall be reeligible. They shall be elected 
at the general meeting in November, and shall serve for three years 
from the first day of December next ensuing. 
Sec., 2. The Board shall hold stated meetings on the third 
Wednesdays of March, June, September, and December. 
Sec. 3. On the written requisition of any five managers, special 
meetings of the Board shall be called by the Secretary, on some day 
to be fixed by the President, within fourteen days after the date of 
such requisition. 
Sec. 4. The Board shall have power to call special meetings of 
the Society, notices being served in the same manner as for regular 
annual meetings. 
Sec. 5. At all meetings of the Board, seven members shall con- 
stitute a quorum. 
Article 4. 
PRESIDENT. 
Sec. 1. The President shall preside over all meetings of the Soci- 
ety and of the Board of Managers, appoint all committees not other- 
wise ordered, give the casting vote, sign all satisfaction pieces and 
discharges under the direction of the Standing Committee, and per- 
form such other duties as pertain to his office. 
5. 
VICE-PRESIDENTS. 
Sec. 1. In the absence of the President, his duties shall be per- 
formed by a Vice-President in the order of rank, which shall be de- 
termined by seniority of service or of years. 9 
Article 6. 
TREASURER. 
Sec. 1. The Treasurer shall receive all moneys of the Society, 
dues of members, interest on investments, and when authorized by 
the Standing Committee, the proceeds of sales of stocks and bonds, 
payment of mortgages, bequests, &c. 
Sec. 2. He shall have power to employ a person to collect the 
annual dues, at a compensation not exceeding ten per cent on the 
sums collected. 
Sec. 3. He shall prepare and furnish to the Secretary a printed 
statement of the affairs of the Society for distribution, with the 
notices of the annual meeting and at the anniversary dinner, 
wiiich statement shall comprise an account of the receipts and dis- 
bursements during the year, and balance in the Treasury; a 
schedule of the property; the number of annuitants, omitting their 
names ; and a list of officers, members, and benefactors. 
Sec. 4. He shall pay all bills ordered paid by the Board of 
Managers and signed by the presiding officer, and all drafts of the 
Standing Committee made in conformity with the provisions of the 
Laws. 
• Sec. 5. He shall render an account to the Standing Committee 
quarterly, and oftener if required. 
Sec. 6. He shall submit to the Managers, at their regular meet- 
ing in September of each year, the names of all members who shall 
have forfeited their membership by non-payment of dues. 
Sec. 7. He shall deliver up, when legally called upon to do so, 
all moneys, bonds, papers, books or other property of the Society 
in his possession, to his successor in office, or to such person as the 
Board of Managers shall appoint. 
Sec. 8. Before entering upon the duties of his office he shall 
execute a bond to the Society for the faithful performance of his 
trust in a sum of not less than five thousand dollars, with two sure- 
ties, to be approved by the Standing Committee. 
gtrtick 7. 
secretary. 
Sec. 1. The Secretary shall be elected annually by the Board of 
Managers from their own number, at the stated meeting in De- 10 
cember. He shall be Secretary of the Society, and of the Board, and 
of the Standing Committee. He shall notify officers and members of 
their election, give notice of the meetings of the Society and of the 
Board of Managers, inserting in said notices the names of any candi- 
dates to be balloted for; shall attend all meetings of the Society, of 
the Board, and of the Standing Committee, and shall enter into books 
kept for the purpose, the minutes of the transactions of each meeting ; 
shall receive all applications made to the Society for relief, and give 
notice of the same to the Standing Committee and to the next quar- 
terly meeting of the Board of Managers; and as soon as any sum or 
sums of money shall be ordered to be paid to applicants, or to those 
persons who are properly authorized to receive the same, he shall in- 
form them by letter of the exact time and place, when and where the 
Treasurer will be ready to make such payments; and transact such 
other business in his office as may be directed by the Society or 
Board of Managers. 
Article $. 
STANDING COMMITTEE. 
Sec. 1. Two Managers shall be chosen by the Board at their 
stated meeting in December of each year, who, together with the 
President, Treasurer, and Secretary shall constitute a Standing Com- 
mittee. They shall serve from the date of their election until their 
successors are chosen. 
Sec. 2. They shall exercise a general supervision over the 
financial affairs and property of the Society, audit all bills presented 
for payment, and direct the investments of the funds, and no change 
of investment shall be made except by their order. 
Sec. 3. They shall hold stated quarterly meetings within one 
week prior to each quarterly meeting of the Board of Managers, 
and special meetings as occasion may require. 
Sec. 4. They shall inquire into the circumstances of all who 
apply for assistance, and report their cases to the Board of 
Managers. 
Sec. 5. They shall give drafts upon the Treasurer to all persons 
who shall be authorized by the Board of Managers to receive assist- 
ance from the Society, and no payment shall be made for such pur- 
pose without such draft. 11 
Sec. 6. They shall have power to grant immediate relief toper- 
sons entitled thereto, in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and draw 
on the Treasurer for the same ; reporting thereon in writing to the 
Board of Managers at their next stated meeting 
Sec. 7. Three members shall constitute a quorum of the Com- 
mittee. 
0. 
COMMITTEE ON ADMISSIONS. 
Sec. 1. Three Managers shall be chosen by the Board at their 
stated meeting in December of each year, who shall constitute a 
Committee on Admissions. They shall serve from the date of their 
election until their successors are chosen. 
Sec. 2. They shall consider all applications for admission to the 
Society, and report thereon at the next stated meeting of the 
Board. 
Sec. 3. They shall furnish to the Secretary the names of 
candidates to be balloted for at any meeting, at least one week be- 
fore such meeting, for insertion in the notices. 
Article 10. 
AUDITING COMMITTEE. 
Sec. 1. A committee of not less than five members, two of whom 
shall be of the Board of Managers, shall be appointed by the Board 
at their meeting in June in each year, whose duty it shall be to 
audit the accounts of the Treasurer and inspect the securities of the 
Society, and to make a written report thereon to the Board at their 
quarterly meeting in September. 
Jlrtklc 11. 
VACANCIES. 
Sec. 1. All vacancies resulting from failure to elect, or error in 
election at an annual meeting, or occurring from any cause between 
two annual meetings, shall be filled by the Board of Managers, and 
members thus chosen shall serve for the full or unexpired term, as 
the case may be. 12 
%xtixk 12, 
ADMISSION AND QUALIFICATION OF MEMBERS. 
Sec. 1. Every person desirous of becoming a member of the 
Society shall sign a declaration stating his wish and setting forth 
his place of abode, whether he is single or married, and the names 
and ages of his children, to which declaration shall be annexed a cer- 
tificate signed by at least two members of the Society, vouching for 
the good character and standing of the applicant. 
Sec. 2. All applications for membership shall be referred to the 
Committee on Admissions, and no candidate shall be balloted for 
until reported on by said Committee. 
Sec. 3. All elections of new members shall be by ballot of the 
Board of Managers, and a three-fourths vote of all members pres- 
ent. 
Sec. 4. Candidates may be proposed at any meeting of the 
Society or of the Board of Managers. 
Sec. 5. No member shall forfeit any of the rights, privileges, or 
benefits of membership, by change of residence, or relinquishment 
of the practice of medicine. 
Sec. 6. Membership of the Society shall date from the first day 
of January or first day of July nearest to the date of election, but 
no one whose initiation fee remains unpaid shall be held to be a 
member. 
13- 
DUES. 
Sec. 1. All members of the Society shall pay an initiation fee 
of ten dollars, and ten dollars dues, payable in semi-annual in- 
stalments, on the first days of January and July. 
Sec. 2. Any member, within three months from the date of his 
election, may become a member for life by the payment of one 
hundred dollars. 
Sec. 3. Any member may, within ten years from the date of 
his election, commute his dues and become a member for life, by 
making up the amount of his payments to one hundred and twenty- 
five dollars, exclusive of his initiation fee. 13 
Sec. 4. The payment of annual dues for twenty successive 
years shall constitute a member for life. 
Sec. 5. Every member who shall marry often er than once, 
shall, on every such marriage, pay into the Treasury the sum of 
fifty dollars or forfeit the rights, privileges and benefits of member- 
ship. 
Article ‘14. 
BENEFACTORS. 
Sec. 1. The payment of one hundred and fifty dollars shall con- 
stitute a person a benefactor of the Society. 
Sec. 2. Any benefactor who is a member of the medical profes- 
sion, on being duly proposed and elected, shall be entitled to all the 
rights and benefits of life membership. 
Sec. 3. Any life member may constitute himself a benefactor by 
the payment of the additional sum of fifty dollars. 
%xixdt 15. 
DISQUALIFICATION OF MEMBERS. 
Sec. 1. No person shall be admitted a member of this Society 
who publicly advertises any nostrum, or to cure any disease. 
Sec 2. Any member whose dues for three half years remain un- 
paid on the first day of September in any year, shall forfeit his mem- 
bership and all sums paid by him; but he may be reinstated by 
vote of the Board of Managers on payment of all arrears, with in- 
terest. 
Sec. 3. Any member who shall advertise or publicly recommend 
any nostrum, or advertise to cure any disease, shall forfeit his mem- 
bership and all rights pertaining thereto ; but he may be restored by 
a three-fourths vote of the Board of Managers, on proof that he has 
abandoned such empirical practice. 
1G. 
DISPOSITION OF FUNDS. 
Sec. 1. The funds of the Society shall be invested in stocks of the 
United States or of the State or City of New York, or in bonds and 
mortgages on real estate in the cities of New York or Brooklyn, and 
in no other mode. 14 
Sec. 2. All moneys received shall be added to the general fund 
of the Society, unless a different disposition of them be directed by 
benefactors or testators, and the same shall have been accepted by 
the Board of Managers subject to the conditions specified. 
%xiuh 17. 
PERSONS ENTITLED TO RELIEF. 
Sec. 1. The following persons are entitled to receive assistance 
annually from the funds of the Society, in such amounts and manner 
as the Board of Managers shall direct: 
1. The widow of a member who has no income from invested 
property, or other fixed provision, exceeding five hundred dollars per 
annum: Provided, that if said widow shall marry again her annuity 
shall cease, unless otherwise ordered by a three-fourths vote of the 
Board of Managers. 
2. Children of a member being, if males, under sixteen, and if 
females, under eighteen years of age, and unmarried, and wholly or 
in part dependent upon the mother for support, and said mother 
having not more than one hundred dollars per annum income from 
invested property or other fixed provision, for each child respectively, 
in addition to the five hundred dollars above mentioned. 
3. Orphans of a member, being, if males, under sixteen, and if 
females, under eighteen years of age, and unmarried, who have no 
income from invested property, or other fixed provision, exceeding 
two hundred dollars per annum. 
Sec. 2. In special cases, the widowed mother, or aged sister of a 
deceased member, who had been dependent upon said member for 
support, may receive assistance at the discretion of the Board of 
Managers, on a three-fourths vote of the members present. 
Sec. 3. In cases of prolonged ill health, or other extraordinary cir- 
cumstances, the assistance granted to the surviving children of mem- 
bers may be extended beyond the limits of sixteen and eighteen years 
respectively, by a three-fourths vote of the Board of Managers. 
Sec. 4. The marriage of the widow of a member shall not inval- 
idate the claims of the children of said member to assistance from 
the Society. 
Sec. 5. No one shall be entitled to claim assistance from the So- 
ciety unless the person by virtue of whose membership the claim is 
made had been a member for the two years previous to his death. 15 
Article 165. 
APPLICATIONS FOR RELIEF. 
Sec. 1. Applications for relief must be made to the Secretary, and 
a declaration, signed, certified, and sworn to according to the form 
hereunto annexed, accompanied in the first instance by proofs of the 
marriage and death ot the member; and in case the claim is allow- 
ed, the declaration must be annually renewed and sent to the Secre- 
tary between the first and fifteenth days of November, so long as the 
applicant claims assistance. 
To the Board of Managers of the New York Society for the Relief of Widows and 
Orphans of Medical Men : 
I, , residing at 
County of State of being de- 
sirous of obtaining assistance from the Society, do hereby make and subscribe 
the following Declaration as the basis of my claim: 
1st. Name of deceased member under 
whom claim is made. 
2d. Relation of party subscribing to 
deceased member—widow, chil- 
dren, orphan, guardian, mother, 
or sister. 
born 18.. 
3d. Name and date of birth of children, 
if any, of deceased member. 
4 th. Amount of income, if any, as 
widow. 
5tli. Amount of income, if any, of 
children. 
Signed 
Dated  j- SS. 
Personally appeared the above named 
on the day of in the year eighteen hundred 
and , and made oath that the above Declaration, as subscribed. 
is true. 
Before me, 
Commissioner of Deeds. 
Note.—The following Certificate must be signed by two members of the Society. 
CERTIFICATE. 
The undersigned members of the Society are acquainted with 
and believe the above statement, as subcribed, to 
be strictly true. 
Dated 
Note—If the applicant resides beyond the limits of the Society—namely, of the counties of 
New York, Kings, Queens, Richmond, and Westchester,—the signature of a respectable clergyman 
acquainted with the applicant will be received, in lieu of signature of members. 
Article 19. 
APPROPRIATIONS. 
Sec. 1. Appropriations for the payment of the regular annuities 
shall be made by the Board of Managers at their meeting in De- 
cember of each year; and payment of the same shall be made, one 
half on the first day of July next ensuing, and the remainder on the 
second day of January following. 
Sec. 2. Special appropriations shall be paid by the Treasurer, 
within twenty days after they shall have been voted by the Board of 
Managers or Standiug Committee, unless otherwise directed by the 
Board. 
Sec. 3. No appropriations of money shall be made unless first 
considered by the Standing Committee. 17 
Article 20. 
ORDER OF BUSINESS. 
Sec. 1. At the annual meetings of the Society, the following 
shall be the order of business : 
1. Reading the minutes of the last annual meeting and of all 
• special meetings, and the questions thereon. 
2. Reading the minutes of the Board of Managers. 
3. Business proposed by the Board of Managers. 
4 Business proposed by Special Committees. 
5. Election of a President, three Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, and 
seven Managers. 
6. Proposal of new members. 
7. New business. 
Sec. 2. At meetings of the Board of Managers the following 
shall be the order of business: 
1. Reading of the minutes of the last meeting and question 
thereon. 
2. Minutes of meetings of the Society held since the last meeting 
of the Board. 
3. Minutes of the Standing Committee. 
4. At the meeting in December, election of Secretary, Standing 
Committee, and Committee on Admissions. 
5. Elections to fill vacancies. 
6. Proposal of new members. 
7. Report of Committee on Admissions. 
8. Election of new members. 
9. Business referred to the Board by the Society. 
10. Business proposed by the Standing Committee. 
11. At the meeting in June, appointment of an Auditing Commit- 
tee and of a Committee of Arrangements for the Anniver- 
sary Dinner. 
12. At the meeting in September, report of the Auditing Com- 
mittee. 
13. At the same meeting, report of delinquents by the Treasurer. 
14. Occasional applications for relief. 
15. At the meeting in December, reading of the annual declara- 
tions of annuitants, and appropriations therefor. 
16. Unfinished business. 
17. New business. 
Sec. 3. The order of business may be suspended by a two- 
thirds vote at meetings of the Society and of the Board of 
Managers. %rt\tU 21. 
ANNIVERSARY DINNER. 
Sec. 1. The Society shall celebrate its anniversary by a din- 
ner on some day in the month of November or December in each 
year, the expense of which shall be defrayed by the sale of tickets. 
Sec. 2. A Committee of Arrangements for this purpose shall be 
appointed by the Board of Managers at their meeting in June of 
each year, to consist of not less than seven members, with power 
to add to their number and fill vacancies. 
Sec. 3. This article may be suspended -by vote of the Board of 
Managers. 
%d\dt 22. 
AMENDMENTS. 
Sec. 1. Any article or section of these laws may be amended or 
repealed by resolution adopted at one meeting of the Board of 
Managers, and confirmed at the next, by a vote of three-fourths of 
the members present at each of said meetings. LIST 
OF 
Members and Benefactors. 
BENEFACTORS. 
* Deceased. 
Adams, John G., M.D. 
♦Alstyne, John, Esq. 
Anderson, James, M.D. 
Banks, James L., 
Beadle, Edward L., 
Bibbins, William B., 
Bulkley, Henry D., 
*Caramann, George P., “ 
♦Carter, Galen, 
Clark, Alonzo, 
Clements, James W. G., “ 
Cock, Thomas F., 
Cockcroft, William, 
Delafield, Edward, 
Detmold, William, 
Dubois, Abram, 
Forrester, James C., 
Gesclieidt, Anthony, 
♦Gibert, James T., 
Gunn, Alexander N., 
♦Harsen, Jacob, 
Henschel, Charles, 
Hubbard, Samuel T., M.D. 
♦Isaacs, Charles E., 
Jones, Alan son S., “ 
♦Little, Edward B., Esq. 
♦Macdonald, Allan, “ 
Mercer, Wm. N., M.D., New Orleans. 
♦O’Reilly, John, M.D. 
Parker, Willard, “ 
Parinelee, Eleazer, Esq. 
♦Rockwell, William, M.L). 
Sabine, Gustavus A., “ 
Sayre, Lewis A., 
Smith, James O., 
Smith, Gouverneur M., “ 
Stone, John 0., 
Taylor, Isaac E. 
Underhill, Alfred, 
Ward, Thomas, 
♦Ward, Augustus Henry, Esq. 
♦Watson, John, M.D. 
White, Oliver, 
Wood, James R., “ MEMBERS. 
THIS LIST INCLUDES ALL WHO HAVE EVER BEEN MEMBERS 
OF THE SOCIETY. 
* Deceased. + Resigned. X Forfeited membership by non-payment of dues. § Expelled. 
Adams, John G. 
Agnew, Cornelius R. 
Alim, Charles M. 
Anderson, James. 
Anderson, W. Cooper. 
Anderson, James H. 
* Arden, John B. 
Arnold, Edmund S. F. 
Banks, James L. 
Luke. 
Barry, Robert A. 
Beadle Edward L. 
Beales, John C. 
Gunning S. 
George. 
*Berger, Francis E. 
Bibbins, William B. 
Blakeman, William N. 
*Bliss, John C. 
Borrowe, Jacob H. 
|*Bowron, John S. 
Briddon, Charles K. 
J *Brown, H. Weeks. 
Buck, Gurdon. 
Buck, Albert H. 
Buel, William P. 
Bulkley, Henry D. 
Burke, John. 
*Cameron, James. 
*Cammann, George P. 
James. 
Galen. 
John S, 
*Chapin, John R. 
Chapin, R. Spencer. 
*Churchill, Charles W. 
jClark, Peter F. 
Clark, Alonzo. 
Clarke, Patrick J. 
Clements, James W. G. 
f*Cock, Thomas. 
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