Emeline Horton Cleveland, 1829-1878: first woman doctor to perform major surgery. Physician and college professor.

Born in Ashford, Connecticut, on September 22, 1829, Emeline Horton grew up in Madison County, New York. She worked as a teacher until she was able to afford to enroll at Oberlin College, from which she graduated in 1853. She then entered the Female (later Woman's) Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and took her M.D. degree in 1855. While working toward her medical degree she married the Reverend Giles B. Cleveland. Her husband's ill health ended their plan to undertake missionary work, and, after a year of private practice, Cleveland became a demonstrator of anatomy at the Female Medical College. She soon was named professor of anatomy and histology. In 1860-61, with the support of Dr. Ann Preston of the college, Cleveland took advanced training in obstetrics at the school of the Maternité hospital in Paris. Upon her return to Philadelphia, she became chief resident at the rechartered Woman's Medical College, a post she held until 1868. From 1862 she also taught obstetrics and diseases of women and children and carried on an extensive private practice.

Cleveland's professional reputation was unsurpassed among women physicians. On several occasions she was consulted by male colleagues, and she eventually was admitted to membership in several all-male local medical societies. Her work at the college, where she had early established training courses for nurses and for nurse's aides (the latter a pioneering venture), was capped by her appointment as dean, succeeding Preston, in 1872-74. In 1875, in what was apparently the earliest recorded instance of major surgery performed by a woman, she performed the first of several ovariotomies. In 1878 she was appointed gynecologist to the department for the insane at Pennsylvania Hospital, but she died in Philadelphia on December 8, 1878.

    Marquis Frank Horr

Marquis Franklin "Bill" Horr (May 2, 1880–July 1, 1955, age 75) was born in Munnsville, NY.  He was an American athlete and member of the Irish American Athletic Club who competed mainly in the discus throw.

He competed for the United States in the 1908 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the discus throw (Greek style) winning the silver medal and in the discus throw winning the bronze medal.

Horr was graduate of Syracuse University, School of Law. In 1908, he was the captain of the Syracuse football team. He went on to become the athletic director at Northwestern University.

Hayden Carruth

Hayden Carruth grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut, and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Chicago. He lived in Johnson, Vermont for many years. Carruth taught at Syracuse University, in the Graduate Creative Writing Program, where he taught and mentored many younger poets, including Brooks Haxton and Allen Hoey. He resided with his wife, poet Joe-Anne McLaughlin Carruth near the small central New York village of Munnsville. He wrote for over sixty years. Carruth died from complications following a series of strokes.