Allyn_Merriam_Hungerford

Allyn Merriam Hungerford

Allyn Merriam Hungerford

American physician

Allyn Merriam Hungerford (August 16, 1810 – June 17, 1883) was a 19th-century American physician, Connecticut legislator, and judge.

Hungerford was born in Watertown, Conn., August 16, 1810. He graduated from Yale Medical School in 1839.[1] After graduation he practiced his profession for a short time in Hartford, Conn., and then in Cincinnati, Ohio, but in 1844 returned to Watertown, where he continued his medical practice and also managed a farm. He was a member of the Medical Society of Connecticut.[2]

He married Emily Platt, of Prospect, Conn., who died July 15, 1880.[3] They had two children, Sarah and William.[4]

Dr. Hungerford was a prominent citizen. In addition to his medical practice, he represented Watertown in the Connecticut State Legislature in the sessions of 1850 and 1851, and was Judge of Probate in the Watertown district in the years 1851, 1852, 1877, and 1878.

He died of apoplexy on June 17, 1883, at age 73.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the 1884 Yale Obituary Record.

References

  1. [1]
    The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Cupples, Upham & Company. 1839. p. 96.
  2. [2]
    Butler (1874). The Medical Register and Directory of the United States. p. 77.
  3. [3]
    Leach, F. Phelps (1924). Thomas Hungerford of Hartford and New London, Conn: And Some of His Descendants with Their English Ancestors. East Highgate, Vt. p. 35.
  4. [4]
    History of Litchfield County, Connecticut: Part 1. J.W. Lewis & Company. 1881. p. 677.
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