"In the death of Dr. Henry Follett, at his residence in Schenevus, Thursday morning of last week, that village was deprived of one of its noblest of men. Born at Pittsfield, Otsego county, Sept. 12, 1841, he with his parents came to Schenevus when a boy, and at an early age evinced the sterling qualities which characterized him through life. In 1861 he enlisted in company I, N. Y. Infantry, and became a lieutenant. At the expiration of his term he again enlisted, and served until captured by the rebels and cast into Salisbury prison. Here, through starvation and exposure, he incurred a cirrhotic form of Bright's disease, to which, after thirty years of patient struggle, he at last succumbed. He was a man of strictest integrity, with a profound love for the truth and entertaining the highest conception of man's responsibilities and attainments. He was ever gentle, considerate, uncomplaining, and few men with so high an ideal came so near its realization.--- Schenevus cor." [The Otsego Farmer (Cooperstown, NY), Aug. 10, 1894, p. 5]
"In the death of Dr. Henry Follett, at his residence in Schenevus, Thursday morning of last week, that village was deprived of one of its noblest of men. Born at Pittsfield, Otsego county, Sept. 12, 1841, he with his parents came to Schenevus when a boy, and at an early age evinced the sterling qualities which characterized him through life. In 1861 he enlisted in company I, N. Y. Infantry, and became a lieutenant. At the expiration of his term he again enlisted, and served until captured by the rebels and cast into Salisbury prison. Here, through starvation and exposure, he incurred a cirrhotic form of Bright's disease, to which, after thirty years of patient struggle, he at last succumbed. He was a man of strictest integrity, with a profound love for the truth and entertaining the highest conception of man's responsibilities and attainments. He was ever gentle, considerate, uncomplaining, and few men with so high an ideal came so near its realization.--- Schenevus cor." [The Otsego Farmer (Cooperstown, NY), Aug. 10, 1894, p. 5]
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