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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Anna Mathews: Birth: Jan 1892 in Nicholville, St. Lawrence Co., New York.

  2. Walter Mathews: Birth: Nov 1895 in Nicholville, St. Lawrence Co., New York.


Notes
a. Note:   Obituary from the Watertown Times, 29 Jun 1942:
 Dr. Henry James Matthews, 87, oldest practicing physician in St. Lawrence County, died Sunday afternoon (June 28) at his home near here of uremic poisoning. He was taken ill Thursday afternoon, after having driven his car to Potsdam and back. He was born on Nov. 25, 1854 at Winklers Corners on the Racket river near Massena. He is the last to survive of a family of five. At the age of one and one-half years he went with his family to Grand Traversey at Elks Lake, Mich. They returned to Ferris Street, near Nicholville, in 1860. There they lived for five years, later moving to Bombay (NY). He attended the select school at Hogansburg and Lawrenceville academy. He taught in the select school at Bombay after graduating from Amsterdam academy. In 1877 he came to Nicholville to teach the upper grades in the Nicholville school. He was graduated from the Burlington Medical college in 1879, and started to practice medicine at Helena in July 1879. In February,. 1881, he opened several offices in Nicholville and in 1895 he bought the old mill homestead where he had conducted his offices and resided ever since.
 The article goes on to list survivors, and funeral information. He was a Methodist.
 A later article (Jul 6 1942) says he left an estate between $40,000 and $50,000. He left $12,000 to his daughter, $2000 to his grandson, Grant Gordon Cole. and the balance to his son.
 More About Dr. Henry J. Mathews:
 Fact 1: 1942, at time of his death, resided with his son Walter.


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