Dr. Eli West (deceased) studied medicine in Castleton, Vermont; attended lectures at the Castleton medical college; and graduated at that institution about the year 1816. He removed to the village of Carthage the year following, and continued in practice at that place for more than fifty years. He was twice elected to the legislature from this district, and held the office of supervisor and justice of the peace for a great number of years.

Dr. R. J. Darraugh, of Champion, is a member of the college of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Canada. He graduated at the Queen’s University of Kingston, Canada, in 1866; practiced in Toronto, Canada, until August 1877, when he removed to the village of Champion.

Dr. G. D. Hewitt, of West Carthage, attended lectures at Burlington, Vermont, and at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He served in the army as surgeon in the 186^th Regiment, returned to the village of West Carthage in 18655, and has since been in practice in that place.

We are under obligations furnished by Messrs. Samuel Fulton, Mr. Hubbard, of champion village, and others in the town. (Jefferson County History, by L. H. Everts, 1878)