JABEZ P. DAKE FAMILY

AHADBA. Mary E. Dake
Mary was born to parents David Merrit and Mary (Manule) Dake. She died on April 11, 1843 at Nunda, N.Y.

AHADBB. Charles Romeyn Dake
Charles was born in 1850 at Pittsburgh, Pa., to parents David Merit Dake and Mary Manule. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City (Medical Department of Columbia College) in 1873. His early inspiration was drawn from no less a source than Dr. F.W. Skiles, late of Brooklyn, N.Y., one of his preceptors, and who, whilst noted for his medical erudition and acumen was, perhaps best known from the fact that between the years 1870 and 1880 he conducted the largest private practice in America, collecting it is said, more than half a million dollars in the brief time.

In medical matters Dr. Dake was extremely liberal. No man added to the fame of Hahnemann by grander, nobler words than those that have come from his pen. Medical Societies had no attraction to him, in fact he was apposed to all organization that was intended to exert any control over the individual. An though no Medical Practitioner in the Mississippi Valley was better known or of greater repute among the people than Dr. Dake, there probably existed no Homoeopathic Physician of importance who was less known, personally,to medical men than he was.

He was frequently called in consultation as far as Indiana, Missouri and Northern Illinois. Early in life he declined medical honors in the East, and late in the West, such as those for which many men strive through a life-time in vain. Turning his back upon openings in New York and in Pittsburgh, he sought and found a quiet and successful life in the West. Twice he declined a college Professorship, one of which was tendered him before he was twenty-five. His short story in the Christmas supplement of the Homoeopathic News, "The Limits of Imagination" was greatly admired and particularly so by those most competent to judge of its literary value. He also wrote a short story "The Death and Resurrection of Gerald Deane"

AHADC. CHAUNCEY MARTIN DAKE
Chauncey was born on December 1, 1816 in Greenfield, Saratoga County, N.Y. as the second son to parents Jabez P. Dake and Sophia Bowen. His academical studies were pursued at Genesee, and he attended medical lectures at Geneva, but owing to ill health began practice under a state license in 1836. His first wife was Miss Harriet Cady, by whom he had a son (She died in 1848); his second wife, Miss Eliza Kirby, whom he married in 1848, was the only daughter of Professor S.R. Kirby, of New York. In 1840 he lived in Mt. Morris, Livingston Co., N.Y.

Dr. Dake was converted to Homeopathy in 1841, by his brother-in-law, Dr. H.H. Cator. While at Rushville, N.Y. he suffered from an attack of inflammatory rheumatism, and becoming steadily worse, called in Dr. Cator, who prescribed remedies that gave him relief, and finally cured him. As soon as he had sufficiently recovered to leave his bed, he procured the few books on homoeopathy then written in the English Language, and studied them so diligently that he soon became convinced of the truths contained in them, and entirely changed his mode of practice. In 1843, he removed to Genesee, N.Y. and was the first to introduce the new doctrine into that beautiful valley, where he triumphantly battled with ignorance, prejudice and bitter professional opposition. In 1857, he received a special degree from the Homeopathic Medical Society in Philadelphia. He moved to Pittsburg in 1863 and succeeded his brother, Dr. J.P. Dake, of Pittsburgh, Pa., there continuing a large and flourishing practice until failing health compelled him, in 1866, to retire to his farm, near Rochester, N.Y.(St. Albans, N.Y.), where he resided until his death. He died of paralysis at Springwater, N.Y. on July 15, 1872, while visiting his sister-in-law, Mrs. Wiley.

Dr. Dake was an ardent lover of the Homeopathic principles and a successful and popular practitioner. He was the first President of the Livingston County Homeopathic Medical Society, and delivered an able address at its first meeting. While initially ridiculed by the Doctors in his family, he was the means of converting his father from the doctrines of the old school; also his brothers, Dr. D.M. Dake, Dr. J.P. Dake, and Dr. William H. Dake.

CHAUNCEY M. DAKE FAMILY

AHADCA. Dumont Charles Dake

Dumont was born June 11, 1838 at Nunda, Livingston Co., N.Y. to parents Dr. Chauncey M. Dake and Harriet Cady. His grandfather Dr. Jabez Dake was the first to substitute the bath for the old system of blood-letting and his uncle, Dr. J.P. Dake has a national reputation as a practioner of the new school of Homeopathy. His father, Dr. C.M. Dake, was also an eminent physician. Dumont received a thorough academic education, studied medicine with his father and uncle,and was associated for some years with the former in practice. He abandoned his profession for a brief season during the War, and served in the Union Army for three years, being afterward appointed to the Revenue Service under Secretary Chase. In 1868 he commenced practice in Rochester, N.Y. as an Homeopathist, but gradually enlarged his sphere of action, adopting more advanced, liberal, and in many respects, original ideas, his specialty being Magnetic Therapeutics. He traveled extensively for several years, achieving and enviable reputation throughout the West by his peculiar method of diagnosing disease, and his marked success in the cure of "incurables." A prominent medical journal said of him: "his methods are novel, his analysis clean-cut and convincing, and he is mentioned as a modern evolution of the distinguished Dr. Abernethy; courageous, determined, and an uncompromising foe to all shams and to charlatanism." He removed to New York in 1879, and was graduated from the United States Medical College in 1882. He rapidly acquired an extensive practice, his peculiar methods receiving due recognition among his professioanl brethren of the various schools of medicine, by whom he was frequently called in for consulations. Although regularly established in New York City, his practice included patients from Maine to California. He was married in 1885 to Florence Nightingale Middleton, a daughter of W.H. Middleton, of Brooklyn.

AHADD. William Henry Harrison Dake
Son of Jabez P. Dake and Sophia Bowen born on June 23, 1822 at Nunda, N.Y. Graduated from the Western Homoeopathy College, Cleveland, Ohio. Finally left this profession to become a dentist which at this time was a new specialty in the medical field. He first practiced medicine at Nunda, N.Y. and then Detroit, Mich., Pittsburgh, Penn. and Irodequoit, N.Y. and finally at Hornell, N.Y. He married Laura Cassandra Barrett on Feb. 19, 1845. (She was born on Feb. 14, 1827 in New Hampshire and died on Mar. 7, 1903 at Nunda, N.Y.). In 1870, he was living in Rochester, NY and between 1868 and 1872 he was supervisor of the forteenth ward in Rochester. He died in Hornell, N.Y. on Jan. 28, 1890. He is buried at Nunda, N.Y.

AHADDA. Laurencia Embury Dake
Laurencia was born to parents William Henry Harrison Dake and Laura Barrett on Jan. 8, 1846 at Nunda, Livingston Co., N.Y. He maried Lucia Aldula Stephens on Aug. 5, 1869 at Rochester, N.Y.

AHADDAA. William Embury Dake (M.D.)
William Embury was born on Dec. 28, 1874 in Rochester, N.Y. to parents Laurencia Embury Dake and Lucia Stevens. He graduated from Rochester High School in 1894 and attended the University of Buffalo from 1894 to 1895. He married Mabel Doty on June 21, 1901 at Church of Christ Episcopol, Rochester, N.Y. (She was born on May 28, 1877 at Waterloo, NY and died Sept. 30, 1950 at Victor, NY) He later studied medicine in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, graduating in 1898. He suceeded the late Dr. Allen B. Carr of Rochester in practice and was a member of the staff of the Hahnemann Hospital, Rochester, N.Y. He died in January 7, 1949 at Rochester, N.Y. He and his wife Mable are buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY.

AHADDAABA. Lou Anne Dake
Lou was born on May 20, 1933 at Rochester, NY to parents William E. Dake (II) and Marion (Sage) Dake. She married Carlton Earnest Garno on October 18, 1952 (He died on Dec. 18, 2020, at home in Loveland, Colorado). They had five children: Cynthia Lee Garno (married a Platt), Sharon Louise Garno (married a Mr. Bishop), Douglas David Garno, Paul Embury Garno and Phillip Bruce Garno. Currently reside in Colorado. 

AHADDAABB. Linda Mae Dake
Linda was born on August 3, 1942 at Rochester, NY to parents William I. Dake (II) and Marion (Sage) Dake. She married Olen Madison Wilford on March 28, 1986. (He died on June 20, 2012 at Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego, California). They have no children. Linda passed away on Dec. 5, 2019 in Solana Beach, San Diego, California.


AHADDAAC. Margaret Dake
Margaret was born June 27, 1906 at Rochester, NY to parents William Embury Dake and Mabel (Doty) Dake. She married William O’Brien April 4, 1949 (He died March 23, 1968 at Clifton Springs, NY and is buried at Honeoye Falls, NY). She died March 1, 1974 and is buried at Honeoye Falls, NY. She was a registered nurse. They had no children.

AHADDB. Ida Henrietta Dake
Ida was born on July 16, 1850 to parents William Henry Harrison Dake and Laura Barrett at Pittsburg, Penn. She married John Emory Thayer on April 9, 1872. She died in Sept. 24, 1909 at Rochester, Ulster, New York. They had children: Leora A., Harry J., Ethel L. and Walter E.

AHADDC. Epathero Americus Dake
Epathero was born on Jan. 4, 1848 at Detroit, Mich. to parents William Henry Harrison Dake and Laura Barrett.

AHADDD. Mary Ella Dake
Mary was born on Sept. 17, 1862 at Irodequoit, N.Y. to parents William Henry Harrison Dake and Laura Barrett.

AHADE. Anna Eliza Dake
Daughter of Jabez P. Dake and Sophia Bowen. She married James D. Crank a prominent merchant for many years, at Geneseo, N.Y. She died at Cincinnati, Ohio leaving six children. Mr. Crank later lived in Pasadena, Calif., where he had orange groves and vineyards. His eldest son, Hon. J.F. Crank, a member of the California Legislature was one of the leading capitalists of the Los Angles region. His second son, Charles D. Crank, M.D. practiced medicine in Cincinnati and held a professorship at Pulte Medical College, in Cincinnati. His youngest son was a physician located at Los Angles, California.

AHADF. Abram B. Dake
Son of Jabez P. Dake and Sophia Bowen. He married Elvira Herrick. He died March 30, 1843 at Nunda, N.Y.

AHADG. Louisa Dake
Daughter of Jabez P. Dake and Sophia Bowen. She married James McClellan. The date and place of death is unknown.


AHADH. JABEZ PHILANDER DAKE
Jabez was born in Johnstown, Fulton Co., N.Y. April 22, 1827 to parents Dr. Jabez Dake and Sophia Bowen . His father was for many years a

Nunda, NY

successful Allopathic Physician in Nunda, N.Y. He was educated in the Literary Institute at Nunda and at Madison University at Hamilton, N.Y. Up to the time of his graduation at the age of twenty-two, he had been constantly in school, except for one year 1845-46 which he spent in Tennessee, as principal at the Bethany Institute, about twenty miles east of Memphis. While in Tennessee his father died, occasioning his speedy return for the settlement of the estate and care of his mother. Previously at the age of sixteen his mind led toward the law and he began to read Blackstone in the office of an eminent lawyer, but coming often upon lengthy Latin quotations that he could not read he concluded after a few months to return to school. Before he had reached the end of his college course his mind had received strong religious bias, and he felt that he ought to preach. But dyspepsia and throat affection and a tendency to his fathers profession finally deceided him to study medicine. His first writting was on the merits of the new system of therapeutics, entitled "Generalization in Medicine", read before the senior class at Union College in 1848 and afterwards published in a Schenectady paper by Dr. Swits. While still a student in 1849 he fought Asiatic Cholera in Pitttsburgh. He graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., with a Bachelor of Arts, in July 1849, studied medicine with Dr. Gustavus Reichhelm, at Pittsburg, Pa.; attended lectures at Geneva Medical College and later at the Homoeopathic College at Philadelphia. He graduated at the Homoeopathic

Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia

Medical College in 1851 (now the Hahnemann College) he associated himself with Dr. Reichhelm (from the University of Halle, Prussia) after his graduation, until 1853 when Dr. Reichelm moved from Philadelphia leaving him with the practice. In 1855 he delivered an oration on the "Philosophy of Homoeopathy" at the centennial celebration of Hahnemann's birthday in Philadelphia. He was elected to the chair of Materia Medica in the College of Philadelphia which he held for two years. In 1857 he was elected President of The American Institute of Homoeopathy at its session in Chicago and in 1858 delivered the annual address before that learned body during its session in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1860 he prepared and published a small work for domestic use on "Acute Diseases" and in 1871 in Nashville, republished the same. He became one of the editors in 1852 of the Philadelphia Journal of Homoeopathy; in 1860 of the U.S. Journal of Homoeopathy, and in 1863 of the North American Journal of Homoeopathy.

In 1863 his health so completely gave way under his extensive practice and many duties that he entirely relinquished practice and returned to his farm at Salem, Ohio. While residing in Ohio he, along with several other gentlemen, established the Hahnemann Life Insurance Company of Cleveland, Ohio. He became interested in the cultivation of the grape on the southshore of Lake Erie. In 1869 he had regained his health but his wife having shown symptoms of pulmonary disease he sought a milder climate and went to Nashville, Tenn. In 1875 he took leave from his practice once again due to health reasons and traveled extensively throughout Europe. At the First World's Homoeopathic Congress in Philadelphia in 1876 he read a paper on "Meteria Medica as a Science". In 1878 he was appointed and served on the "Yellow Fever Commission". In 1881 he again traveled to Europe traveling through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Russia. In 1885 he was the american editor of the Cyclopoedia of Drug Pathogenesy. This same year he made a third trip to Europe with his son Dr. J. P. Dake (III) for whose health the journey was undertaken. Jabez (III) died Nov. 14, 1886 in Nashville. In 1893 he visited Japan accompanied by his son Dr. Charles Dake. In 1894 he revisited Vancouver and the Pacific coast in company with Justice Howell E. Jackson of the U.S. Supreme Court. He abandoned general practice confining himself to consultation with his sons Drs. William C. and Walter M. Dake, who succeeded to his practice. He later devoted much of his time to literature and art. He was the organizer and for several years the president of the Nashville Art Association. In Nashville he acquired a large practice which he retained till his death on Oct. 28, 1894, aged 67 years and 6 months. While attending a concert at the Tabernacle in Nashville Dr. Dake sustained a stroke of paralysis and died two days later.

In 1851 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Church, the daughter of a very eminent Allopathic Physician of Pittsburgh. He was one of the best known and most influential Homoeopathic Physicians in this country. He belonged to a family of physicians, which included his father, two brothers and five sons (William C., Walter M., Charles and Frank B. Dake) He was always a member of the Baptist Church.

AHADHA. William Irvin Church Dake
William was born Jan. 28.1852 in Pittsburgh, Pa. to parents Jabez P. and Elizabeth (Church) Dake. He was the eldest son. He was educated at Pittsburgh, Pa.; Ypsilanti, Mich., and studied medicine in his father's office. He was graduated at the Medical Department of the University of Nashville in 1872 and spent the winter of 1872-73 in New York City, attending lectures and clinics in the various hospitals, and was matriculated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York Homeopathic Medical College. Returning to Nashville he entered into a partnership with his father. He was a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy since 1872 and was President of the Southern Homeopathic Medical Association of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Tennessee, and of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Middle Tennessee. His literary labors were chiefly in connection with medical matters. He contributed to various medical journals and proceedings of the societies of which he was a member. On Aug. 28, 1878 at Janesville, WI he married Miss Adelaide Myra Wiggin, she lived only three months after their marriage. On Aug. 28, 1878, Dr. Dake was married a second time to a sister of his first wife Adelaide Augusta Wiggin, daughter of Richard and Rebekah Wiggin, of Janesville, Wis., and had two children, Richard Wiggin and Elizabeth Church Dake. He died on December 9, 1910 in Pittsburg, Penn.

AHADHAAA. Mary Dudley Dake
Mary was born on Feb. 22, 1908 to parents Richard W. Dake and Julia Ezell Dudley Dake. On Sept. 7, 1929 she married Frank Fletcher.

AHADHAB. Elizabeth Church Dake
Daughter of William C. and Adelaide (Wiggin) Dake born on June 7, 1881, at Janesville, Wis. She married Robert Morris Wilson. She died on Feb. 13, 1908 at Nashville, Tenn.

AHADHB. Walter Marshall Dake
Walter was born Jan. 16, 1855 in Pittsburgh, Pa. as the second son to Dr. Jabez P. and Elizabeth (Church) Dake. His early education was received in the public schools, and later under Dr. Bryce Thompson of Nashville, Tenn., by whom he was prepared to enter upon a course of medical training. In 1875 he became a student in the Palte Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, and in September, 1876, was matriculated in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 1877. He began the practice of medicine at Jackson, Tenn., but was called to Nashville in 1878, to enter into partnership with his father and brother, Dr. William C. Dake, practicing physicians in that city. As a member of this prominent firm he attained considerable distinction. he was a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy; the Southern Homeopathic Medical Association, and the Homeopathic Medical Society of Tennessee. Numerous treatises contributed by him to medical journals assisted the progress of medical science. Dr. W. M. Dake took a prominent part in public measures for the educational advancement of his adopted city; he was a Director of the Howard Library, and had himself collected a private library of several thousand valuable works. He was married, Nov. 8, 1882 to Fanny G. daughter of Samuel M. Ward of Jefferson, Tex. They had two children, Walter M., Jr., and Woodie Elizabeth.

AHADHBA. Walter Marshall Dake, Jr.
Walter was born Oct. 15, 1886 in Nashville, Tenn. to parents Walter Marshall and Francis (Ward) Dake. He received his early education at private schools in Nashville and at the Lawrenceville, N.J. School and for a brief period studied medicine at Vanderbilt University. In 1903 he went to Colorado where he worked in various mills and mines, later being employed by the Colorado Telephone Co. in its Engineering Department and by the Central Colorado Power Co. at Shoshone,Colo., on construction work. In 1906-07 he was mill-man and assayer at the Nashota Mill, Silver Plume, Colo. the next three years were spent in lower California, Mexico, where he was Assayer and Smelter Superitendent with the El Valle Mines Co., San Antonio, in 1907-08, and was Constructor and Superintendent of the San Janis Reduction Works in 1908-09, becoming Mine and General Superintendent of both companies. Returning to the United States in 1910, he was first associated with the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co., Aurora, Nev., and then in turn became Superintendent in Charge of the Cyanide, Sand and Slime Plant of the Pitts-Silver Peak G.M. & M. Co., Blair, Nev., 1911; Mills Superintendent of the Bully Boy Mines Co., Marysvale, Utah, 1911-12; Mill Superintendent of the Rye Valley, Oreg. subsidiary plant of the U.S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Co., 1912-15; Construction Engineer and Mill Superintendent with Stall Brothers, operators of cyanide mill at Masonic, Calif., 1915, and Mill and General Superintendent of the Aurora, Nev.Consolidated Mines Co., a subsidiary of the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co., 1915-17. Later he was Confidential Engineer for Leon F. Rains of Salt Lake City, reporting on coal properties in Wyoming and Utah, 1917-18; Superintendent of the Blazon Coal Co., Point of Rocks, Wyo., early in 1918; General Superintndent of the Carbon Fuel Co. and Morton Coal Co. of Carbon County, Utah, and the Blazon Coal Co., Point of Rocks, Wyo., 1919-20, and General Manager of the Rock Springs Coal & Mining Co., Hallville, Wyo. 1920-21. In 1921 he organized in Denver, Colo., the Dake Engineering Co., a consulting engineering firm specializing in metal and coal examination and in the operating organizations of mining properties, serving as President of this company and of the Associated Mines Co. of Alma, Colo., and as Consulting Engineer of the Anglo-California Petroleum Co. Moving to the East in 1922, he was Administrative Assistant in the Engineering Division of the U.S. Coal Commission until its work was completed in 1923. From 1924 to 1936 he was Consulting Engineer in Charge of Sales of the Joy Manufacturing Co., Franklin, Pa., manufacturers of mechanical loading machines and allied mining equipment. He resigned in the latter year to become associated with the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., New York City, as Research Manager of Mining Publications and Associate Editor of Coal Age. He was also Managing Editor of both Coal Age and Engineering and Mining Journal and as Associate Editor of "Peele's Mining Engineers' Handbook". In addition he was Consulting Engineer to Mining Machine Parts, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, and the Dymonhard Corporation of America, New York City. After 1922 he was Consulting Engineer in Special Technological Studies for the U.S. Government and throughout the major part of his career he was closely associated with mechanization in the coal and metal mining industries. He was a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, West Virginia Coal Mining Institute, Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute, Illinois Mining Institute, the Masonic Order, the Washington Club of Franklin, Pa., the Westchester, N.Y. Country Club, the Larchmont,N.Y. Yacht Club and the Lotos Club of New York City. In religion he was an Episcopalian and in politics a Republican. He was married at Hot Springs, Ark., Apr. 28, 1915, to Helen Vaughan, daughter of William Lester Babcock, of that city.

AHADHBAA. Sara Elizabeth Vaughn Dake
Sara was born to parents Walter Marshall Dake,Jr. and Helen Vaughn Dake. She married Will R. Ray.

AHADHBB. Woodie Elizabeth Dake
She was born on Dec. 13, 1890 in Nashville, Tenn. to parents Walter Marshall Dake and Francis Ward. She married Valdo Frank Wilson in Denver, CO on June 30, 1910. (Valdo Sr. was born on March 12, 1887 in Denver, CO and died May 11, 1956 in Washington, DC.) They were divorced around 1929. They had three sons (Valdo Frank Wilson, Jr. born July 1, 1914 in Denver, died Jan. 26, 1956 in Akron, OH. William Dake Wilson born 29, 1920 in Denver. He lives in Raleigh, NC (2005). Richard Marshall Wilson born Oct. 16, 1921 in Denver, Co and died March 13, 2002 in Stuart, FL.). Woodie and Valdo were divorced around 1929 and she married Baxter Hunter Bruce. There was no children by this second marriage. Woodie died Aug 14, 1953 in Akron, OH. The date and place of her death is unknown.

AHADHC. Jabez Percy Dake
Jabez was born on September 15, 1857 to parents Jabez P. Dake and Elizabeth Church at Pittsburgh, Penn. He was educated chiefly in Nashville, graduating from the Fogg high school, attending lectures at the Medical Department of the University of Tennessee and the University of Michigan and taking his medical degrees from the latter in 1879. He located at New Albany, Indiana but was prevented remaining there long by failing health. Giving up practice he visited the Hot Springs, Arkansas and other health resorts in this country and in Europe. He spent several summers on the Cumberland Mountains, at Mount Eagle and attended the sick among the summer visitors and the attendants of the Chautauqua Assembly. He moved to Hot Springs and took up practice with Dr. L.D. Ordway, formerly of Freeport, Ill. He then assisted his father and brothers in their practice at Nashville. He died at the residence of his father, beyond Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tenn. on Nov. 14, 1886 at the age of 30. He was amember of the First Baptist Church.

AHADHD. Charles Dake
Charles was born July 13, 1860 in Pittsburg, Pa. as the fourth son of Dr. Jabez P. and Elizabeth (Church) Dake. Like his brothers, he was determined to enter the medical profession, and was educated to that end , first in the common schools of his native city and of Salem, Ohio, and later in the High School of Nashville, Tenn., where his family settled in 1869. After leaving school he studied for one year at the Southerwestern Baptist University, Jackson, Tenn., and in 1879 entered the Medical Department of the University of Tennessee, where he was graduated in 1881. After practicing his profession for a few months at Hot Springs, Ark. he removed to Louisville, Ky., but returned in 1883 to resume his labors in the locality which he had at first chosen. Here he met with marked success and established a practice which was national. Dr. Dake was a specialist in chronic diseases, and from time to time wrote articles for the medical journals, treating of his chosen specialty. He was a member of various medical associations, among them the American Institute of Homoeopathy and the Southern Homoeopathic Medical Association, and was a prominent Mason. Dr. Dake was married July 29, 1900 to Emily J. third daughter of Col. J. L. Hurley of Australia, MS, who was one of the largest and most successful cotton planter in the south. He died on Sept. 11, 1937 in Hot Springs, Ark.