Sep 12, 2025
Great Elm Road, Sharon, Connecticut.
Great Elm Road, Sharon, Connecticut.
The roads of Litchfield County, Ct on an abnormally foggy day 12.28.24 by me
"The Fall," Litchfield County, North Kent, Connecticut, USA,
Charles Gwathmey Architects
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Historic American Buildings Survey (Fed.) Stanley P. Mixon, Photographer Sept 16, 1940 (A) EXTERIOR, GENERAL VIEW OF HOUSE FROM SOUTH - Captain Samuel Rockwell House, Colebrook, Litchfield County, CT
Federal Vanderburgh
Cornelia E. Boardman wrote a great deal of gossip about her cousin, her cousin’s husband, and their two daughters. Federal Vanderburgh was a well respected physician who married Esther Orinda Boardman, daughter of Cornelia’s Uncle Homer. The Vanderburgh’s daughters were apparently fond of a frivolous lifestyle of parties and balls. Following her description of their behavior, Cornelia told of a story “Dr. Van” relayed to her. “Dr. Van told dreadfull stories about Mrs. Dr. Taylor when he came back. Said there was no hope of her living hat she raised a pint of bloody matter a day from her lungs. I hoped it was one of his big stories.”
Although it sounds as if Dr. Vanderburgh was prone to exaggeration, he is credited with Mrs. Dr. Taylor’s recovery. Interestingly, several sources indicate this happened in 1837, although this letter is clearly written the following year. Dr. Taylor is credited as being the first homeopathic physician in Connecticut. The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Volume 1 by James Hammond Trumbull, 1886 notes: “The first homeopathic physician to settle in Hartford County was Dr. Gustavus M. Taft who came to Hartford in 1842. He was not, however the first practitioner in the State, for in 1837 Dr George Taylor, of New Milford, who had been for many years an adherent of the old school, was converted to homeopathy by Dr. Frederick Vanderburgh, of New York, who, while on a visit at New Milford, restored Dr. Taylor’s wife to health when hope of her recovery had almost been abandoned.”