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sociated with Edward C. Delavan, Esq., in 1835, in pub- 

 lishing a journal devoted to temperance. He was a man 

 of industry, energy and enterprise, fond of novelty and 

 adventure. He died from an accident near Burlington, 

 Iowa, on the 28th of October, 1861, at the age of sixty- 

 three years. 



Dr. "Willard read also a notice of Dr. "William Bay, who 

 still survives in the ninety-first year of his age. 



Dr. Bay is of French Huguenot extraction, his ancestors 

 fleeing first into Holland, and subsequently to Ireland, 

 from whence Mr. Bay with two sons came to Maryland, 

 about 1720. One these sous, John Bay, born 1743, and died 

 1818, was the father of "William Bay, who was born in 

 Albany, October, 14th, 1773. His mother was born 1745, 

 and died at the age of one hundred years. He went to 

 Princeton College, but left in his senior year, studied 

 medicine in New York, acted for four months as health 

 officer to the port of New York in 1795, graduated in 1797, 

 practiced in Columbia county until 1810, when he returned 

 to Albany, where he continued in practice until he had com- 

 pleted sixty-three years of professional life. A public 

 dinner was given to him upon the completion of his half 

 century in practice, by the physicians of the city. The 

 event took place at Congress Hall in 1847. He was pre- 

 sent at the semi-centennial meeting of the Albany County 

 Medical Society in 1856. 



Dr. Bay's wife, Catharine Van Ness, lived with him 

 sixty-eight years, and died at the age of eighty-seven, 

 January 24, 1864. A brother, John Bay, lived with the 

 doctor for many years, and died April 13, 1864, at the age 

 of eighty-two years. 



Dr. Bay's lifetime covers the birth and growth of our 

 nation. He survives, full of dignity and full of years, in 

 remarkable mental and physical elasticity, probably the 

 oldest physician in the country. 



