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- 1776: Joel Northrop, the youngest child of Amos Northop, Jr., of New Milford, Connecticut, and brother of Amos (Yale 1762), was born on July 27, 1753. After graduation he studied medicine in Danbury, Connnecticut, and acted for a time as Surgeon's Mate at the Military Hospital in that town.
While still residing in New Milford, on May 15, 1777, he married in New Haven Mabel Sarah, the eldest sister of his classmate Bird, and within the next two years he settled here as a physician and druggist. His reputation was unsavory, and although he was one of the original members of the Connecticut Medical Society, in 1792, he was expelled in 1804, for "making and vending nostrums contrary to the by-laws." He never had much general practice, and his practice as a specialist was hardly reputable. Much of his time was given to pecuniary speculations, but the large sums which these brought him were soon lost.
In 1794 he had the yellow fever, and in 1796 he removed to Branford. He returned to the city after a few yers, but late in 1805 went beyond the town line on the Derby road, within the limits of Orange, where he occupied a stone house which he had just built. Here he died, after a brief illness, of lung fever, on February 9, 1807, in his 54th year.
He had naturally a strong mind. His form was stout, and his muscular energy very great. It is remembered that he was an inveterate smoker, and had a strange passion for cats. Though hot-tempered and violent, he had strong domestic attachments. His only daughter died in child-bed in 1803, and one of his six sons in 1806. His own death seemed to be a result of these afflictions.
Two sons were graduated at Yale, in 1804 and 1811, respectively. His widow survived until Feb. 14, 1835, having entered her 79th year.
--Dexter's "Yale Biographies & Annals," v. 3 ("Third Series"), 1763-1778, pp. 625-6
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