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etired from active business, though still
financially interested in various enter-
prises. He married, June 25, 1862, Cor-
nelia Josephine Silver, of New York City,
and their golden wedding was celebrated
at their home in Hartford, in 1912. Cornelia
Josephine Silver was born March
18, 1840, in Richmond, Province of Que-
bec, Canada, and died November 20, 1914,
in Hartford, daughter of Abraham Per-
kins and Lydia Bailey (Burgess) Silver.
Abraham P. Silver was a grandson of
James Silver, a surgeon in the Con-
tinental Revolutionary Army, who served
at the battle of Bunker Hill. During
that battle he seized the gun of a wound-
ed man and fought in the ranks. After
independence was secured, he settled at
Nottingham, New Hampshire, resumed
the practice of medicine, and some years
later removed to Canada. Susan Morrell,
daughter of Daniel and Cornelia J.
(Silver) Morrell, was born May 2, 1869,
and became the wife of Jonathan Camp,
as above noted.
CRARY, David, M. D.,
Physician, Public Official.
Since 1838, when Dr. David Crary
came to Hartford, after two years medi-
cal practice in Vermont, Hartford has
not been without a Dr. David Crary in
the active practice of medicine. When
Dr. David Crary, Sr., laid down the burden
of a large practice in 1885, his mantle
fell upon Dr. David Crary, Jr., who had
been associated in practice with his father
since 1869.
The elder Dr. Crary was in active prac-
tice for half a century, and during that
period was attending physician in more
than three thousand maternity cases. He
is credited with the first operation in
tracheotomy performed in Hartford, that
operation saving the life of a child suffer-
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ing with membranous croup, and at the
verge of suffocation. He was the assist-
ant physician at the operation of a removal
of a tumor from a woman, where
nitrous oxide was used for the first time
in the city.
The professional life of the son has
now extended over a period of nearly
equal length and his practice has been
equally important. While contempo-
raries, they were also partners, but since
1885, the year of the senior doctor's re-
tirement, until the present year, 191 7, Dr.
Crary, Jr., has practiced alone. The en-
tire period covered by the two men as
medical practitioners to now is seventy-
nine years, 1838 to 1917.
Dr. David Crary, Jr., is of the seventh
generation of the family founded in
America by Peter Crary, who settled at
New London, Connecticut, as early as
1663, residing on the Groton side of the
river. He married, in 1677, Christobel,
daughter of John Gallup, and left male
issue at his death in 1708.
Robert Crary, the son of Peter Crary,
the founder, was born in New London,
in 1690, and died in 1750. His wife was
Elizabeth, whose maiden name has not
been ascertained.
Christopher Crary, son of Robert and
Elizabeth Crary, was born in 1713, and
died in 1790. He married Elizabeth Rob-
bins, born in 1719, and died in 1796.
Ezra Crary, son of Christopher Crary
and Elizabeth (Robbins) Crary, was born
in 1737, and died in 1828. He married,
in 1756, Dorothy Ramsdell, who was born
in 1741.
Elias Crary, son of Ezra and Dorothy
(Ramsdell) Crary, was born in 1764, and
died in 1847. His life was largely spent
on the farm in Vermont. The even tenor
of his life was disturbed, however, by
that period which witnessed the Birth of
a Nation. In those events, he bore an