History of Oneida, (Madison County) New York United States of America

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Greene Carrier Bronson, jurist, was born at Oneida, N.Y., in 1789. He practised law at Utica, N.Y., for many years, was elected surrogate of Oneida county in 1819, sat in the assembly in 1822, and from 1829 to 1836 filled the office of attorney-general. In 1836 he was made a justice of sessions. In 1845 he was raised to the chief justiceship of the supreme court, and in 1847 became one of the judges of the newly established court of appeals. He afterwards removed to New York, where he practised his profession, and engaged in speculations which proved disastrous. In 1853 President Pierce made him collector of the port of New York. In 1856 he was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of the state, and from 1856 to 1863 he was corporation counsel of the city. He died in Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 3, 1863.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Stephen Smith Burt, physician, was born in Oneida, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1850, son of Oliver T., and Rebecca (Johnston) Burt, and grandson of Aaron Burt, identified with the early history of central New York, one of the founders of the city of Syracuse, and a lineal descendant of Henry Burt, who came to New England in 1635. He was educated at the English and classical school, West Newton, Mass., the Eagleswood military academy in New Jersey, the Edwards Place school at Stockbridge, Mass., and had two years' tuition at Cornell university. He was graduated from the College of physicians and surgeons of New York, in 1875, valedictorian of his class, and from Roosevelt hospital in 1877. He was elected a member of the state and county medical societies, and of the New York academy of medicine, and was professor of thoracic diseases at the University of Vermont in 1884 and 1885. In 1882 he became a teacher, and in 1884 was made professor of physical diagnosis and clinical medicine in the New York post-graduate medical school and hospital, and attending-physician to the New York post-graduate hospital. He was a charter member of the Hospital graduates' club of New York. In 1890 he received the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale university. He published in pamphlet form: A Clinic on Heart Disease (1886); Pleurisy (1887); Views on the Prevention and Treatment of Typhoid Fever (1889); Some of the Limitations of Medicine (1889); Pulmonary Consumption in the Light of Modern Research (1890); Bacteriology and Preventive Medicine (1891); The Ethics of Experimentation Upon Living Animals (1891).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor