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    William Prescott Townsend

    Birth: 7-25-1818

    Death: 12-25-1876

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Mentioned by GWS (18490816GWS_WHS) as the doctor who was treating SSS in August 1849.

Dr W1lliam Prescott Townsend was a son of William and Martha Wilder Townsend and born at Lancaster on July 25 1818 He began to attend school at Groton Academy in the year 1838 and graduated at the Harvard Medical School in the Class of 1845 He practised his profession for some years at Shawangunk a village now included in Walkill Ulster County New York and then removed to Goshen in that State where he lived for twenty five years Dr Townsend was twice married first to Mary Ann Mapes and secondly at Goshen on November 12 1857 to Hannah Elizabeth daughter of Garrett and Abigail Thew Thew He died at Goshen on December 25 1876 

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Mentioned by GWS (18490816GWS_WHS) as the doctor who was treating SSS in August 1849. Dr W1lliam Prescott Townsend was a son of William and Martha Wilder Townsend and born at Lancaster on July 25 1818 He began to attend school at Groton Academy in the year 1838 and graduated at the Harvard Medical School in the Class of 1845 He practised his profession for some years at Shawangunk a village now included in Walkill Ulster County New York and then removed to Goshen in that State where he lived for twenty five years Dr Townsend was twice married first to Mary Ann Mapes and secondly at Goshen on November 12 1857 to Hannah Elizabeth daughter of Garrett and Abigail Thew Thew He died at Goshen on December 25 1876
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