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Doctor
JONATHAN HURLBURT came from that part of Farmington now
called Southington, having bought of Timothy Orton 120
acres in 1746. He is thought to have been the first that
practiced medicine in the township. It seems that his
medical profession was not his only employment. He was
also a mechanic, and made plows. His son Ozias lived and
died on the same place where his father did, a little
south of the Sedgwicks. He had a natural taste for
poetry, and published a poem on the great hail storm
which occurred in the summer of 1799. He lived to a good
old age. His brother, Joab, lived near him, and died
some years before him. Both are buried in the old
Cornwall Hollow cemetery.
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The following
photographs and their captions are taken from
Cornwall in Pictures: A visual reminiscence 1868-1941
The
Hurlburt homestead sheltered one of the oldest families
in town. The first Hurlburt, Jonathan, arrived in 1746
from Farmington.
A picture of
school children at the Sedgwick monument shows the
Hurlburt garage--built in the late 1930s and razed in
1940 for lack of business.
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