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John Stearns

STEARNS, John, physician, born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, 16 May, 1770; died in New York city, 18 March, 1848. He was graduated at Yale in 1789, and at the College of physicians and surgeons, New York, in 1812. He settled at Waterford, New York, in 1793, was in the New York senate in 1809-'13, in 1810 removed to Albany, and in 1819 went to New York city, where he remained till his death. He originated the Saratoga county medical society, and in 1807 the Medical society of the state of New York, and in 1846 was the first president of the New York academy of medicine. He was also a founder of the American tract society. He contributed valuable medical discoveries to the New York " Medical Repository," and published numerous addresses (1818-'47).

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