American Medical Biographies/Pomeroy, Charles G.
Pomeroy, Charles G. (1817–1887)
Charles G. Pomeroy, one of the founders of the New York State Medical Society, was born in Madison County, February 22, 1817.
Shortly after his birth his parents took him to Ontario County, where they settled on a farm, near the village of Canandaigua.
In this village and in Rochester, young Pomeroy attended school until he was seventeen, then studied under Dr. Post. Four years later the censors of Ontario Medical Society granted him a license to practise, then followed a few months' experience in Monroe County, before forming a partnership with Dr. Alexander McIntyre, of Palmyra. Dr. Pomeroy again changed his home to practise for eight years in Fairville; then moved to Newark, Wayne County, New York, where he founded the State Medical Society and was an organizer of the Wayne County Medical Society and many times elected as its president. He was also president of the Medical Association of Central New York. As governor, trustee and resident physician of the New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-minded Women Dr. Pomeroy worked until his impaired health obliged him to resign.
He married twice. His first wife dying in early life, he married a second time in 1850.
Dr. Pomeroy died of granular disease of the kidneys with cardiac complications, in Newark, December 14, 1887.