Ninth Child of David C. and Rhoda(Adams)Betts, and youngest brother of Dr. William C. Betts(M.D.Yale 1843), was born in Wilton, Conn., Feb. 21, 1821.
He supported himself during his medical studies by teaching, and was for some time principal of a public school in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he settled as a physician. But after practicing successfully for many years, he was led by ill health to give up his chosen profession, and devoted himself to real-estate business, especially in Brooklyn, where his residence continued. Though always a busy man, he was generous and public-spirited and deeply interested in the welfare of others. He was an original member and sometime a deacon of the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, and more recently a member of the memorial Presbyterian Church, near which he resided in his last years. He died suddenly, of apoplexy, june 5, 1890, in his 70th year.
He married in April, 1848, Miss Caroline Hunt, a native of Sharon, Conn., and a teacher in his school in Brooklyn, who died May 26, 1880. Of their five children the eldest, a daughter, died in infancy, and the rest are living in Brooklyn; the only son was graduated at Amherst College in 1876.
He supported himself during his medical studies by teaching, and was for some time principal of a public school in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he settled as a physician. But after practicing successfully for many years, he was led by ill health to give up his chosen profession, and devoted himself to real-estate business, especially in Brooklyn, where his residence continued. Though always a busy man, he was generous and public-spirited and deeply interested in the welfare of others. He was an original member and sometime a deacon of the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, and more recently a member of the memorial Presbyterian Church, near which he resided in his last years. He died suddenly, of apoplexy, june 5, 1890, in his 70th year.
He married in April, 1848, Miss Caroline Hunt, a native of Sharon, Conn., and a teacher in his school in Brooklyn, who died May 26, 1880. Of their five children the eldest, a daughter, died in infancy, and the rest are living in Brooklyn; the only son was graduated at Amherst College in 1876.
Ninth Child of David C. and Rhoda(Adams)Betts, and youngest brother of Dr. William C. Betts(M.D.Yale 1843), was born in Wilton, Conn., Feb. 21, 1821.
He supported himself during his medical studies by teaching, and was for some time principal of a public school in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he settled as a physician. But after practicing successfully for many years, he was led by ill health to give up his chosen profession, and devoted himself to real-estate business, especially in Brooklyn, where his residence continued. Though always a busy man, he was generous and public-spirited and deeply interested in the welfare of others. He was an original member and sometime a deacon of the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, and more recently a member of the memorial Presbyterian Church, near which he resided in his last years. He died suddenly, of apoplexy, june 5, 1890, in his 70th year.
He married in April, 1848, Miss Caroline Hunt, a native of Sharon, Conn., and a teacher in his school in Brooklyn, who died May 26, 1880. Of their five children the eldest, a daughter, died in infancy, and the rest are living in Brooklyn; the only son was graduated at Amherst College in 1876.
He supported himself during his medical studies by teaching, and was for some time principal of a public school in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he settled as a physician. But after practicing successfully for many years, he was led by ill health to give up his chosen profession, and devoted himself to real-estate business, especially in Brooklyn, where his residence continued. Though always a busy man, he was generous and public-spirited and deeply interested in the welfare of others. He was an original member and sometime a deacon of the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, and more recently a member of the memorial Presbyterian Church, near which he resided in his last years. He died suddenly, of apoplexy, june 5, 1890, in his 70th year.
He married in April, 1848, Miss Caroline Hunt, a native of Sharon, Conn., and a teacher in his school in Brooklyn, who died May 26, 1880. Of their five children the eldest, a daughter, died in infancy, and the rest are living in Brooklyn; the only son was graduated at Amherst College in 1876.
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