Phinney, L. B. - M. D.

L.B. PHINNEY, M.D., was born in New Milford, Susquehanna Co., Pa., April 16, 1820, being the eldest son and second child of William and Lydia (Belknap) Phinney. He spent his early life on his father’s farm and in the district school of his native town. At the age of sixteen he entered a boarding-school at Newburg, N.Y., under the principalship of his uncle, Rev. Samuel Phinney, where he remained six years, four as a student and two as an assistant teacher. In 1842 he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. George Brown, of Newburg, with whom he remained a year, after which he attended a course of lectures of three terms at the Philadelphia University and graduated at that institution in 1844. In May, 1844, he commenced the practice of medicine in Flint, Ulster Co., N.Y., where he continued in successful practice for twenty-two years, when, owing to ill health, he was obliged to relinquish the same. In 1866 he removed to Shawangunk, and purchased the farm upon which he now resides, and on which he has been engaged to the present time in agricultural pursuits. He married, March 27, 1861, Catherine, daughter of Thomas and Matilda (Bruyn) Bruyn. She was born in Shawangunk, Aug. 13, 1838. They have five children, viz.: Jonah, Lydia Louisa, Mary, Janet, and Ella.

In politics, he was originally an old-line Whig and is now a Republican, but has never been an aspirant for political honors.