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Mahoning County, Ohio
History & Genealogy

Source:
History of Trumbull & Mahoning Counties
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
Vol. I
Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro. 1882

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Chapter V
PHYSICIANS.
City of Youngstown, Mahoning Co., Ohio
Pg. 404

     CHARLES DUTTON was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, in 1777.  He there studied medicine with Dr. Jared Potter, a distinguished physician, the grandfather of the late Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland, of Poland, Ohio, and afterwards of Cleveland.  As the Western Reserve was opening up for settlement and emigrants were moving there from Connecticut in 1801, Dr. Dutton, being then ready to commence practice, determined to settle in the new country.  Turhand Kirtland, the father of Dr. J. P. Kirtland, was a large proprietor of land in the Reserve, and agent for other proprietors.  From Old to New Connecticut was, then a long and tedious journey of several weeks.  Turhand Kirtland, in April, 1801, was preparing to move a band of emigrants from Wallingford, and had provided three four-horse covered wagons filled with them and their goods ready for starting.  Dr. Kirtland then describes Dr. Dutton's start for his future home in the West:
     The Doctor, somewhat eccentric and peculiar in his ways of thinking and acting, sprang upon the driver's seat of one of these wagons, and, at that moment, his aged and widowed mother, with eyes suffused with tears, and other relatives and friends gathered around to bid him “farewell."  He, without noticing them, gathered up the reins, cracked his whip, and started off his team, at the same time singing, in an elevated strain, the chorus of "Jefferson and Liberty,” the political song of that day:

     “Rejoice, Columbia's sons, rejoice!
          To tyrants never bend your knee,
     But join with heart, and soul and voice,
          For Jefferson and Liberty.”

     The long journey being safely made, the young doctor, as Youngstown was then a prominent place and its prospects promising, selected it for his future residence, and immediately commenced practice.  In July, 1802, he purchased a tract of two acres, fronting twenty rods on the south line of West Federal street, a short distance east of Spring common, for which he paid $200, and there erected a log-house, and after wards a frame-house, in which he resided during his life.
     He soon became one of the leading citizens.  In July, 1803, he was appointed postmaster of Youngstown, being the second who held the office, and continued the postmaster until Mar. 9, 1818.  A copy of the quarterly account from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1817, was preserved among his papers, which, as showing the amount of business of the office at that time, is quite a curiosity, and also interesting historically.  The amount collected on letters was $35; on newspapers, $3.79; total, $38.79. Postmaster's commission, $13.19, paid general post-office, $25.60; total, $38.79. He was also occasionally elected a township trustee, and to other township offices.  He became the owner of lands near the village and devoted much attention to farming and stock raising, particularly to raising mules.  In later years he practiced his profession only occasionally.
     Dr. J. P. Kirtland, who visited Youngstown in 1811 and then made him a visit, speaks of him as the leading physician and surgeon of the vicinity and sustaining a favorable reputation in that capacity for energy and good judgment.  Another physician of eminence, who knew him well, in a brief sketch of him says: “Dr. Dutton was regarded by the medical men of the Reserve as an able man, a very good surgeon for those days, and a successful physician; was thought to be somewhat heroic in practice.  He was a shrewd man, possessing discriminating judgment, somewhat eccentric, sometimes a little rough, very social, having a large share of those kindly feelings which go into the make up of a good physician, and I may add enter largely into the composition of a good man.”
     His wife, Cynthia Dutton, died Apr. 26, 1816, aged thirty-one years.  They had one child, Jane, who married Dr. Lemuel Wick, son of Henry Wick, an early settler.  She died some years since.  Dr. Wick died recently.
     Dr. Dutton was again married, April 7, 1822, to Miss Cordelia Poole, of Youngstown.  He died in March, 1842.  She survived him a few years.

     HENRY MANNING was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, Jan. 15, 1787.  His father was a farmer, and his ancestors were among the earlier settlers of Massachusetts.  By the side of his

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     CHARLES C. COOK

 

     TIMOTHY WOODBRIDGE

 

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     DR. WILLIAM L. BUECHNER

     DR. OLIVER DWIGHT PAINE

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     DR. JOHN McCURDY

     DR. C. N. FOWLER

     DR. F. V. FLOOR

 

[PORTRAIT of JOHN R. HOLCOMB]

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     DR. JAMES F. WILSON

     DR. JOHN S. CUNNINGHAM

     DR. WILLIAM J. WHEELAN

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     DR. JOHN E. WOODBRIDGE

     DR. ISAIAH BROTHERS

     DR. M. S. CLARK

     DR. BENJAMIN F. HAWN

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     DR. GEORGE S. PECK

     M. L. DAVIS

     GEORGE EDGAR ALLEN

     DR. A. M. CLARK

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     DR. JOSEPH WILSON

    

THE MAHONING COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY

 

DENTAL SURGEONS.

     DR. B. F. GIBBONS

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     DR. NATHAN B .ACHESON

     DR. E. A. CLARKE

     DR. F. S. WHITSLAR

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     C. A. BEARD

    


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