Henry Baird Favill, AB, MD, LL.D., 1860-1916, a ... - University Library

6o6 HENRY BAIRD FAVILL
Medical Society of the Territory of Wisconsin, and when held
under such name shall be a body politic and corporate; shall
have perpetual succession; and be capable of contracting and
being contracted with, issuing and being issued, defending and
being defended, pleading and being impleaded, in all courts of
law or equity; and may have a common council and alter the
same at pleasure; and shall be capable of holding estate, real,
personal, or mixed and also to loan, let, or sell or convey the same,
provided that the property owned by the said association shall
not in the whole exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00);
provided also that said Society shall
the promotion of medical science.
be compiled exclusively for
The majority of the said incorporators met at Madison
at the proper time and organized the Medical Society of the
Territory of Wisconsin and the society held meetings annually.
The records of the meetings, however, prior to 1847,
appear to have been lost and there is now no trace of them.
On Tuesday, January 12, 1847, the society met at Madison,
and there being only a few present, little was done.
Dr. M. C. Darling was the president incumbent, and
Dr. J. C. Dousman was elected to succeed him; Dr. Henry
Clark was secretary pro tern, and Dr. C. B. Chapman was
elected recording secretary for the ensuing year.
The organization of the Society is indefinite but it is
implied in the following statement that it consisted of
temporary and permanent members as this memorandum
shows. Dr. C. B. Chapman of Madison and Dr. E. A. Mulford
of Walworth were elected permanent members of the
Society. Dr. Wolcott introduced a resolution, as a by-law
of society, "that membership be forfeited if a member does
not attend for two years." Also a resolution that the constitution
of the Wisconsin Territorial Medical Society "be
so alteied that the annual meeting be held on the fourth
Tuesday after the first Monday in January."
These two resolutions constitute the only recorded testimony
of the existence of a constitution and by-laws of the
society at that time.