BIOGRAPHY: Samuel Tuthill, M.D. ; Dutchess co., New York

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1683
History of Duchess County (sic - Dutchess County), New York
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of someof its Prominent Men and
Pioneers.
By James H. Smith, assisted by Hume H. Cale and William E. Roscoe
published by D. Mason & Co., 1882, Syracuse, New York
page 451

Samuel Tuthill, M.D.

     Samuel Tuthill was born in Blooming Grove, Orange County, N.Y., April 2,
1811. He was next to the youngest of the ten children of Samuel and Eunice
Youngs Tuthill. His father, who was a farmer by occupation and originally from
Long Island, died when he was but twelve years of age. He remained on the farm
with his mother and elder brother Hiram unitl his eighteenth year, with no
other educational advantages than those afforded by the common district
schools of the time. He was brought up in the Methodist Episcopal Church in
which his father and mother had long been consistent members.

     In 1837, Mr. Tuthill commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Thomas La-
pham a well-known "Thomsonian" physician in Poughkeepsie, and entered upon his
professional career in Kingston, N.Y., in 1840. In 1848, he returned to
Poughkeepsie where he has since successfully practiced in what is known as the
"Eclectic School of Medicine," and in which he has risen to a high rank;
having been licensed and hoored as an M.D.., by the Syracuse Medical College,
and the Medical College of the City of New York. Since the organization of the
District Eclectic Society he has been its President. He is reasturer of the
new York State Eclectic Society, and has been its President.

     Although never identified with the "Old School" of medicine, he has
uniformly enjoyed the confidence and respect of its members. In addition to a
large city practice, he has an extensive country ride, and probably no
physician in the county is more generally known than he.

     Dr. Tuthill is a man of unusually fine physique, dignified and courteous
in manner and a general favorite with ann, on account of his kindness of heart
and good sense.

     For years he has represented a respectable constitutency in the common
council of the city as an alderman, and in the "County Legislature" as a
supervisor, where he is known as a ready, witty and direct speaker.

     He married Sarah M. Kelley in 1833. Five of their six children are now
living, two of whom are prominent physicians; Robert K. Tuthill, M.D., of
Poughkepsie, and James Y. Tuthill, M.D. of Brooklyn, N.Y. "Doctor Robert" was
a surgeon in the Union Army.

     For many years he and his family have been in the communion of the
Cannon St. M.E. Church of Poughkeepsie, and for many consecutive years Dr.
Tuthill has been one of the District Steards and Lay delegates in the New York
Annual Conference and is one of the present Board of Trustees of the
Poughkeepsie district.

     It may be truly said of him that he is a representative man, in
medicine, in politics and in the church.