Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cornell, Alanson 1873
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The Ionia Sentinel, Friday, January 10, 1873
Died.—at his residence in Ionia on Sunday, the 5th inst. at 2 o’clock p.m., 
after a short but painful illness, Alanson Cornell, M.D., aged 70 years, 2 
months and 5 days.

The death of this excellent man, so long and so favorably known to so large a 
number of his fellow citizens, calls for more than a passing notice.

He was born in the town of Eaton, Madison county, State of New York, October 
30, 1802.  He early manifested a taste for study, and although in humble life, 
with small pecuniary means, and comparatively limited facilities for the 
pursuit of knowledge, he succeeded with much patient industry, in acquiring a 
good academic education, after which he applied himself to the study of 
medicine, and commended practice about 1830.  For the first two or three years 
of his practice, as was then the custom, he associated himself with older 
physicians of acknowledged skill, and acquired his first experience in the 
practice of his profession under their supervision.

In 1835 he married, at Galway, Saratoga Co., N.Y., Miss Emeline Cornell, a 
distant relative, of the same family name; who, after a married life of 37 
years, blest with more than usual conjugal happiness, is now left to mourn his 
loss.

In September 1838, Dr. Cornell with his wife and his first born son, left the 
State of N.Y., and came to Ionia, where most of his family connections had 
already preceded him.  From that time till his decease he has remained a 
resident of Ionia.  As to his character and habits of life, in a community 
where he is so well known, it seems almost superfluous to speak.  Kind by 
nature, gentle and patient under all circumstances, industrious almost beyond 
example, he seems to have possessed the very elements necessary to the 
character of  a “beloved physician,” and if any evidence were wanting to show 
the deep interest he took in those under his professional care, it were only 
necessary to notice, during the last few days of his illnesses, while the 
balance of his mind was partially unhinged through the intensity of his 
sufferings, how completely his thoughts were devoted to the duties of his 
profession; his whole remaining mental powers being absorbed in the care of 
his patients; providing for their attendance, administering medicines, and 
replacing broken and dislocated limbs.  But the thirty years of his active 
practice through all this region have demonstrated the excellence of his 
character as a physician, far better than we can write it.


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