Note 23 — PLANT GENEALOGY

For several years of his early life he was in mercantile business in New York City. At the age of twenty he removed to Marcellus, New York, and engaged in farming until 1872, when he made his home in Syracuse, where he became a prominent member of the Brown Memorial M. E. Church.

“He was a man of strong character, honorable and upright, with clear intellect and much originality, fond of books, and well informed on the events transpiring in his country and throughout the world.”

There were six children by his first marriage, two of whom were Charles H.⁷ Plant and Mrs. W. R. Knowles, who died before him. The four others are Dr. William T.⁷ Plant, Alfred D.⁷ Plant, and Miss Ailda⁷ Plant, of Syracuse, and Mrs. I. W. Davey, of Marcellus.

William Tomlinson⁷ Plant, the eldest of these, was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1860, and began practice as a physician in Ithaca, New York. Early in the war he entered the United States Navy as surgeon, and continued till October, 1865, when he resigned, and in 1866 began the practice of medicine in Syracuse. This he followed till about 1894, when paralysis compelled him to retire from active life. He has filled many positions of honor and responsibility; has been on the medical staff of a large hospital, doing duty there four months in the year; was one of the founders of the Medical College of Syracuse, in which he held the chair of Jurisprudence and Pediatrics, and has contributed much to medical journals, having been the editor of one such periodical.

He has one son, John W.⁸ Plant, who is in the graduating class of Syracuse Medical College for 1898.