Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Dexter, Lyman C. February 21, 1854 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak naela@earthlink.net September 21, 2008, 1:48 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Dexter, Lyman C., Newport, was born February 21, 1854. His early eduation was obtained in the public schools at Newport. At the age of fifteen years he entered Fairfield Seminary. He graduated from Hungerford's Collegiate Institute at Adams, N.Y., in 1872, and was employed in 1874 and 1875 in Utica, N.Y., as financial agent for Alfred Putnam in the dry goods business. He then studied medicine with Dr. A. J. Brown, of Newport. He graduated from the University of Michigan in June, 1879, and then took a post-graduate course in Bellevue Hospital, New York city, from which he graduated in March, 1880, and commenced the practice of his profession in Newport the following summer. He started the first exclusive drug store in Newport, which he now conducts. He is also a stockholder in West Brothers' knitting mill, and is a member of the Improvement, Agricultural and Herkimer County Medical Societies. He is a member of Lodge No. 455, F.& A.M., in which he has been junior and senior wardens; belongs to the I.O.R.M., the Phalitorian Literary Society of Hungerford Institute and of the Nonsaskin Literary Society. He is a Republican, and has been town clerk four consecutive years, health officer two years, and is at present town physician of Newport. He married June 27, 1884, Gertrude B., daughter of Archibald and Annie (Coffin) Harris. They have three children, Henry Merritt, Burr Tiffany and Anna May. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/dexter410gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb