Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Dudley, William Henry January 1, 1855 - 
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Dudley, William Henry, M.D., Newport, was born at Madison, New Haven county, 
Conn., January 1, 1855, a son of Lucian W. and Mary E. (Page) Dudley.  Lucian 
W. was a son of David, and he of Roswell, who was a son of David, a lieutenant 
in the Revolutionary war.  The latter was a son of Deacon David, who was a son 
of Ebenezer, and he a son of John who came to Guilford, Conn., from England, 
in 1673, and the same year married Martha French, of Guilford, Conn.  The 
subject was one of two children (the brother being George W.), and settled in 
Newport in November, 1888.  In his youth he attended the common school, and a 
preparatory select school of the grade of an academy.  At eighteen years of 
age he entered the employ of the father at Norwich, Conn., as drug clerk, 
remaining five years, when he entered the office of Dr. W. S. C. Perkins of 
that city to study medicine.  In 1879 he entered the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, of New York, which is now the medical department of Columbia, and 
remained there one year.  Then spend two years at the University of the City 
of New York, where he graduated March 9, 1882.  He then returned to Norwich, 
Conn., and practiced medicine for three years, when he removed to Butte City, 
Mont., where he remained two years.  At that time he received the appointment 
of surgeon to the Elkhorn Mining Company, of Jefferson County, Mont., where he 
remained two years more.  December 25, 1886, he married Lillian T. Fillmore, 
daughter of Ralph H. and Elizabeth (Fitch) Fillmore.  Ralph H. Fillmore being 
a cousin of ex-President Fillmore.  The grandfather of Mrs. Dudley, Comfort D. 
Fillmore, was a soldier in the war of 1812.  His wife, Annice, drew a pension 
until her death, at ninety-one years.  Dr. and Mrs. Dudley have had two 
children: Earl W., who died May 27, 1887, aged four months, and Ray W., born 
April 14, 1889.  He is a member of the Congregational Church, and his wife of 
the M.E. Church.  Dr. Dudley and his father are both Republicans.  The doctor 
is vice-president of the Herkimer County Medical Society; also on the 
consulting staff of the Faxton Hospital of Utica, N.Y.  He is health officer 
of Newport, and also belongs to the fire company.  He is a member of St. James 
Lodge, F. & A.M., No. 23, of Norwich, Conn.; Iroquois Chapter, R. A. M., of 
Ilion, No. 236; of Little Falls Commandery, K.T. No. 26, and Ziyara Temple, 
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.  Also belongs to the I.O.R.M., being sachem of 
the Tribe.  Dr. Dudley while in Montana traveled through the National Park as 
surgeon to the Butte City Liederkranz Society, and wrote and published a book 
on its wonders.


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.


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