Norwich – Connecticut Genealogy

Early Doctors In Middlesex County

1859 Map of Middlesex County Connecitcut - small

The Middlesex County Medical Society was established in 1792, reflecting the evolving medical landscape of the area. Pioneering figures like Dr. Jared Eliot and Dr. Benjamin Gale laid crucial foundations for medical education and practice. As private teaching replaced formal education, physicians adapted to rising healthcare demands, notably through practices like inoculation. The region’s early physicians, primarily self-taught, played a vital role in establishing standards and progression in medicine during an era with minimal institutional support. This article provides brief biographical sketches of many of the pioneering doctors of Middlesex County.

Huntington Papers

The Huntingtons of Norwich are one of the noted families of Connecticut, and the period of the Revolution is recognized as one of the most important in the history of this country. The correspondence here published, consisting as it does of letters written in large part by and to two Huntington brothers during the Revolutionary War, when one of them was in active service in field and camp and the other, perhaps no less active, in the necessary occupations of home pursuits and business affairs, relating in part to the war, makes a volume of wide and lasting interest and value.