Abijah B. Case was born in Westford, Chittenden 

 Co., Yt., Oct. 12, 1803. 



Owing to adverse circumstances he never attended school 

 a day till he was sixteen years old. He then attended a 

 district school for two winter terms, during which time an 

 unquenchable thirst for acquiring an education was imbibed. 

 He worked out by the month, always employing his spare 

 moments with his book, so as to enable himself to have 

 the advantages of an education. Thus by rapid strides he 

 received a good academical education, and subsequently, 

 December, 1827, graduated at the medical college at Cas- 

 tleton, Yt. 



Always desirous of obtaining more light, he sought and 

 received both theoretical and practical knowledge from the 

 Massachusetts General Hospital and the Jefferson Medical 

 College at Philadelphia. This thirst for more knowledge 

 in his profession has never deserted him, and subsequently 

 we find him attending parts of courses of lectures at 

 Geneva and Buffalo, or giving home demonstrations to 

 his students. He practiced medicine in Yermont about 

 three years, a short time at Belmont, Allegany Co., and then, 

 in 1833, located in Steuben County, where he has ever since 

 employed his time in study, practice, and teaching of medi- 

 cine, and in many cases by home demonstrations. 



Although a resident of Howard, his practice has never 

 been circumscribed, being frequently called to remote dis- 

 tances, and even now, in his seventy-sixth year, is still 



engaged in active business, and bids fair for years of use- 

 fulness. 



He was married at Shrewsbury, Yt., Sept. 14, 1828, to 

 Miss Sophronia Pierce, who was born Nov. 6, 1805, and 

 died Feb. 10, 1873. Miss Pierce was the daughter of 

 Caleb Pierce, and cousin to ex-President Pierce. 



He has reared three children : George F., born July 24, 

 1830, who became a physician, and practiced in Howard 

 and Pulteney till his death, which occurred Sept. 8, 1875, 

 leaving a wife and one son. At one time George F. was 

 regimental surgeon in the war of the Rebellion. Julia, 

 born March 14, 1833, who is the wife of Charles Forrester, 

 a wholesale grocer at Scranton, Pa. Dighton L. was born 

 May 17, 1838, studied medicine with his father, graduated 

 at the Buffalo Medical College, and is practicing in Howard. 

 Dr. Case is evidently a man of mark. Without the aid of 

 inherited wealth or social prestige he has made his way 

 from obscurity to a high position, socially and professionally. 



He is not the possessor of great riches, though he has 

 earned more money than most of his contemporaries. He 

 is of that confiding turn, honest to a fault himself, that in 

 outside business he has been overreached, and, too, he has 

 always considered it " more blessed to give than to receive." 

 So the poor have always found in him a friend indeed. 

 He has been a member of the State Medical Society for 

 nearly thirty years, and is perhaps the oldest practitioner in 

 the county. 



