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The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Vol. XVII - July 1887
Published by the Society
Mott Memorial Hall, No. 64 Madison Ave.,
New York City

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         THOMAS FORTESCUE ROCHESTER, M.D., one of the foremost
       physicians in this State, died at his home in Buffalo, N.Y.,
       May 24, 1887, after a lingering illness from kidney disease.
         The son of THOMAS HART ROCHESTER, fifth mayor of the city
       of Rochester, in this State, he was born Oct. 8, 1823. In
       1845 he graduated in the Arts at Geneva College, New York,
       and in 1848 he received his medical degree from the Univer-
       sity of Pennsylvania.
         After a year spent in Bellevue Hospital, New York, and a
       year and a half in Europe, he began to practise his prof-
       fession in this city, where he remained for two years. Then
       he removed to Buffalo, where he was appointed Professor in
       its Medical College, and during his life filled the highest
       professional positions in his adopted city and in the State.
       All measures wisely devised to promote the professional, sci-
       entific, religious, and artistic interests of Buffalo found
       in him an ardent and prominent supporter. Many communications
       from his pen appeared in the Buffalo Medical Journal and else-
       where.
         He married, May 6, 1852, MARGARET MUNRO, daughter of Rt
       Rev. WM. C. DELANCEY, D.D. Several children survive.
         DR. ROCHESTER'S grandfather was Col. NATHANIEL ROCHESTER,
       deputy commissary general in the Continental army, who, with
       several others, removed from Hagerstown, Md., to the Genesee
       country, on account of their dislike to slaveholding. The
       city of Rochester, in this State, bears his name. The emi-
       grant's ancestor was an Englishman who settled in Virginia.
       
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