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married, August 3, 1836, Rhoda E. Stanley,
born August 5, 1814, at Goshen, Connecticut,
the daughter of Oliver and
Rhoda (Powell) Stanley.
Captain Frank Stanley Chester, son
of the Rev. Albert Tracy and Rhoda E.
(Stanley) Chester, was born at Ballston
Spa, New York, May 5, 1839. He was
educated in the public and high schools of
Saratoga Springs. He served in the Civil
War and held the rank of captain. In
private life he was engaged in the lumber
business and similar interests in Buffalo,
New York. In religious faith he was a
Presbyterian, and in political belief a
Democrat. On December 25, 1861, he
married Katherine Stillman, of Buffalo,
and they were the parents of the follow-
ing children : Mabel, born January 5,
1863; Horace Stillman, September 11,
1865 ; Thomas Weston, of whom further;
and Hubert Mills, born April 3, 1872.
Dr. Thomas Weston Chester, son of
Captain Frank Stanley and Katherine
(Stillman) Chester, was born in Buffalo,
August 8, 1866. He attended the public
schools of his native city, and in 1888 he
entered Hamilton College at Clinton,
New York. He removed with his uncle,
with whom he made his home, in 1891 to
New Brunswick, New Jersey, and there
completed his senior year at Rutgers Col-
lege, graduating in the class of 1892 with
the degree of B. A. Three years after
graduating he received the degree of A.
M. from his Alma Mater. He is a member
of the college fraternity, Alpha Delta
Phi. In the fall of 1892 he enrolled at
the College of Surgeons, New York City,
and completed the full course covering a
period of three years, at which time he
was graduated with the degree of M. D.
The following six months he spent in
New York City in hospital and dispensary
work. In the spring of 1898 he began
the practice of his profession in Hart-
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ford, where he has since risen to a high
place among the professional practition-
ers. In 1900 he was appointed Assistant
Gynecologist and Obstetrician at the
Hartford Hospital, and in 1910 was promoted
to Chief Obstetrician and Assist-
ant Gynecologist. He is a Fellow of the
American College of Surgeons, member
of the Hartford Medical Society, the
Hartford County Medical Society, the
Connecticut Medical Association and the
American Medical Association. In politi-
cal belief he is an Independent, and a
Congregationalist in religion. His clubs
are the Hartford and University of Hart-
ford.
On February 28, 1905, Dr. Chester
married Sarah Hopkins King, of New-
ton Highlands, Massachusetts.
HALLO CK, Frank Kirkwood,
Medical Director of Cromwell Hall.
The Hallock or Halleck family is an
ancient one in New England and Long
Island. In the varying orthography of
Colonial days the name appears in town
records and legal documents as Holly-
oake, Hallioke, Holyoke, Halliock, Hal-
lick, Hallock and Halleck. Owing chiefly
to the loss of the town records of South-
old, Long Island, previous to 165 1, there
exists only tradition about Peter Hallock,
the founder of the family in this country.
It is generally accepted that he was a
member of a company of thirteen families
under the leadership of the Rev. John
Youngs, who landed at New Haven, Oc-
tober 21, 1640, and later in the same year
removed to Southold, Long Island. He
is given the credit of having been the first
man to step ashore at a point still called
Hallock's Neck. This small body of
exiles from civil and religious oppression
in England were the first white settlers
in that part of Long Island.