History of Coldenham, (Orange County) New York United States of America

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A Short Biography of Laertus Connor

Laertus Connor, physician, was born at Coldenham, N.Y., Jan. 29, 1843; son of Hezekiah and Caroline (Corwin) Connor; grandson of William Connor; great-grandson of John Connor, and a descendant of Matthias Corwin, who settled at Ipswich, Mass., in 1633. He was graduated at Williams college in 1865, and at the College of physicians and surgeons of New York city in 1870. He began practice at Detroit, Mich., in 1871, and made a specialty of eye and ear in 1878. From 1871 to 1895 he was editor successively of the Detroit Review of Medicine, the Detroit Medical Journal, the Detroit Lancet and the American Lancet. He was professor of physiology and the eye and ear in the Detroit medical college, 1871-81, and secretary of the American medical college association, 1873-80. He was president of the American academy of medicine, 1888-89, and of the Detroit academy of medicine, 1877-78, and 1888-89; vice-president of the American medical association, 1882-83, and a trustee of the Journal of the American medical association, 1883-89 and 1892-94. He is author of numerous papers upon diseases of the eye and ear.

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