 He was a graduate of Yale University in 1804; a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1810, and a member of the Rensselaer County Medical Society in 1817.In the then flourishing village of Troy, New York, on the Hudson River, they established an academy, which they conducted successfully for several years.Here, they were friends of Francis Wayland, D.D., LL.D., afterwards of Brown University, and were both noticed in his memoir in a very affectionate and complimentary way.