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HENRY FIELD, M. D., is a young man who has built up a large practice in the short time that he has resided in Marathon, and promises to be one of the most prominent and successful physicians of his time. He is a son of James and Elizabeth (Haylor) Field, and is a native of Betchworth, Surrey County, England, where he was born April 21, 1866. When he was twenty-one years old he left his native soil for the shores of America, where some of his relatives were already located, although his immediate family was left behind in the mother country. Arriving in the United States, he at once secured a position as book-keeper with an uncle residing in Herkimer County, N. Y., and entered upon the duties of his new office; later he was engaged in contracting and building in the same county, and in this way did he secure the means that enabled him to attend the various schools of which he has been a student. He had a good liberal education, acquired in England, but his ambition was to become a physician who would be an honor to the profession, and to this end he has applied himself with an ardor that has been followed by very flattering results. He first took a course in the academy at Cazenovia, this state, and from there went to the Potsdam Normal School. He then entered the office of Dr. Miles Longshore of Cold Brook, Herkimer County, where he remained until 1893, when he entered the Albany Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1896. While engaged in study, he had also assisted his preceptor in that gentleman’s professional work, and had gained a good practical, as well as theoretical, knowledge of medicine; in addition to this he was engaged in hospital work for a time, and was thus enabled to begin his professional career with the assurance and confidence that is gained by experience alone. He came to the village of Marathon, opened an office, and by his pleasant and courteous bearing at once won the good will of the citizens, while his close application to his profession, the painstaking care he exercises in the charges that have fallen to his share, and above all, the wonderful success that has attended his ministrations, have won him the confidence of the entire community. The marvelous rapidity with which he has built up his present practice is almost incredible to one unacquainted with the doctor’s push and energy. Almost his entire time, not given to his practice, is devoted to study, and his admirers are satisfied that he will yet win a name that will rank high in the world of science; even the few that are slow to take up with any new thing, no matter how meritorious, concede that his success is something wonderful.

Dr. Field has chosen as his partner through life Emma L. Theobald, daughter of William Theobald of Annsville, Oneida County, this state, to whom he was married November 27, 1889. One child has blessed their home, Henry, a bright child, who is the idol of his parents. Dr. Field and his wife are communicants of the Methodist Church, of which they are regular attendants, and of which he is a trustee. He is also a member of Marathon Lodge, I. O. O. F.