WILLARD, Sylvester David, physician, born in Wilton, Coral, 19 June, 1825; died in Albany, New York, 2 April, 1865. He was educated in the academy in his native town, graduated at Albany medical college in i848, and acquired a large practice in that city. From 1857 till 1865 he was secretary of the New York state medical society, whose "Transactions" he edited, and he was president of the medical society of Albany county in 1858. He entered the National army as volunteer surgeon in 1862, and in 1865 because surgeon-general of the state of New York. Being directed by the legislature to report the condition of the insane in the state, Dr. Willard urged the necessity of erecting a large asylum for the poor, and a bill to establish such an asylum was in the state senate at the time of Dr. Willard's death. It afterward passed, and the institution was called the Willard asylum for the insane. It is one of the largest of the kind in this country. Both houses of the legislature passed resolutions of regret upon his death. Dr. Willard devoted much tithe to historical and antiquaria, n research, and was the author of many scientific papers, addresses, and contributions to medical journals, He published "Historical Address" (Albany, 1857) ; " Biographical Memoirs of Physicians of Albany County" (1857): "Memoir of Thomas Spencer, M. D." (1858); and "Annals of the Medical Society of the County of Albany, 1800-'51, with Biographical Sketches" (1864).