Biography
son of Isaac & Elizabeth Gridley
md. 20 Apr. 1815, Dorothy Smith, dau. of Ebenezer & Mary (Dickinson) Mattoon
He graduated Yale in 1818, and studied medicine with Dr. Nathan Smith. He married Dorothy, the youngest daughter of General and Mary Mattoon, of East Amherst, and set up housekeeping in the house which has been the home of Amherst doctors for eighty-five years. Dr. Gridley was a man of strong personality and decided character, a good citizen, as well as a skillful physician. For a time he practiced medicine in partnership with Dr. Isaac Cutler. In 1832 the town instructed the selectmen to pay Cutler and Gridley $50 for vaccinating the inhabitants of Amherst. Next to Dr. Gridley's home was a wooden building, and next to that a brick building, in the upper story of which the doctor had his office. To reach this room the patient was obliged to ascend a stairway on the outside of the house next door, and then cross over a wooden bridge. Many people remember climbing up to
md. 20 Apr. 1815, Dorothy Smith, dau. of Ebenezer & Mary (Dickinson) Mattoon
He graduated Yale in 1818, and studied medicine with Dr. Nathan Smith. He married Dorothy, the youngest daughter of General and Mary Mattoon, of East Amherst, and set up housekeeping in the house which has been the home of Amherst doctors for eighty-five years. Dr. Gridley was a man of strong personality and decided character, a good citizen, as well as a skillful physician. For a time he practiced medicine in partnership with Dr. Isaac Cutler. In 1832 the town instructed the selectmen to pay Cutler and Gridley $50 for vaccinating the inhabitants of Amherst. Next to Dr. Gridley's home was a wooden building, and next to that a brick building, in the upper story of which the doctor had his office. To reach this room the patient was obliged to ascend a stairway on the outside of the house next door, and then cross over a wooden bridge. Many people remember climbing up to
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