Stories in Stones: Stories from Oneida County, NY Cemeteries

      Frank Hooker Doolittle was born Aug 15, 1859 in Belmont, Alleghany County, NY. When he was about a year old the family moved to Chittenango, Madison County, NY. Sometime later they moved to Mohawk, Herkimer County, NY.     Frank H. Doolittle was educated at the Polytechnic at Chittenango; and Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. When he was either 15 or 18 (hard to read in Obituary) he started teaching school to get funding for his own education.     After Frank H. Doolittle left school he started working at the National Mohawk Valley Bank at Mohawk as a clerk. A year later he moved to Lowville and started work as a bookkeeper at the Black River National Bank. Two years later he moved to Utica where he was a shipping clerk for the J.M. Childs and Co for two years. After Utica he moved to Kansas City, MO where he got a job in a large plumping warehouse store. He got Typhoid Fever two years later and returned to Utica where he went back to wor...

      William Joseph Schuyler was born July 9, 1861 in Westmoreland, NY to Joseph K. and Anne Williams Schuyler. He attended schools in Westmoreland and Utica.     William J. Schuyler studied medicine under the direction of Dr. Willis E. Ford of Utica. He then entered the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York. Mr. Schuyler graduated from there in 1885. After graduation he became a member of the staff of the Charity Hospital at Blackwell's Island. Dr. Schuyler stayed there for a year and a half before spending a year on the staff of Bloomingdale Asylum. He then worked at Butler Hospital for the Insane at Providence R.I. for a year before coming back to Utica.     When he returned to Utica Dr. Schuyler opened his own office. He was house surgeon at St. Luke's Hospital for a number of years. Dr. Schuyler was also a member of the staff of the General Hospital and visiting surgeon to the House of the Good Shepherd. ...