Cyrenius Chapin

Buffalo’s First Physician and War of 1812 Hero

Thomas C. Rosenthal (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

244 Seiten

2025
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
979-8-8558-0181-1 (ISBN)

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America's geographic and ideological frontier as lived by Buffalo's first physician, renegade militia officer, and founding citizen.

Cyrenius Chapin tells the story of life in the young American republic through the experiences of a local physician, land speculator, and patriotic citizen. Chapin arrived in Buffalo in 1803 blessed with a forceful personality, infuriating gall, and a caring nature. He became a leader in the growing community, tending to its sick, training its future doctors, and engaging in local politics. A determined Federalist, he challenged Joseph Ellicott of the Holland Land Company, raised a family, and was a personal friend of Native American leaders. During the War of 1812, Dr. Chapin single-handedly resisted the British advance on the city but ultimately failed to prevent Buffalo's burning by the royalist forces. Pneumonia struck him down in 1838 following his third attempt to drive the British out of upper Canada. Extensively researched, this is the story about the age of revolution and a time when American independence and self-determination were inseparable.

Thomas C. Rosenthal is Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of Bloodletting and Germs: A Doctor in Nineteenth Century Rural New York and coeditor of Office Care Geriatrics.

List of Illustrations
Timeline

1. Dr. Chapin and the Niagara Frontier

2. Opportunities on a Knoll Overlooking Lake Erie

3. Religion, Home, and Practice in the Wilderness

4. An Unconventional Federalist

5. Practicing Medicine Before Science

6. Contemporaries, Competition, and Sectarian Chaos

7. Native Americans and Medicine

8. Family, Village, and Community in Buffalo's First Decade

9. Native Americans and the Prelude to War, 1810–1812

10. How to Start a War: 1812

11. Chapin Enters the Fight

12. The Realities of Making War

13. Forty Thieves at War

14. Civilians, Fodder, and War

15. Buffalo Burns

16. In the Aftermath of War, Buffalo Comes of Age

17. Chapin Establishes a County Medical Society, Twice

18. An Agricultural Society and a Buffalo Boom

19. Cholera, 1832

20. The Patriot Wars, Dr. Chapin's Last Stand

21. The Legacy of Cyrenius Chapin

Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	28.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	Excelsior Editions
Zusatzinfo	7 Illustrations, black and white; 16 Figures
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-13	979-8-8558-0181-1 / 9798855801811
Zustand	Neuware