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Note: Isaac Brock Aylsworth, born December 4, 1812, and was so named "at the request of his material grandfather, Robert Perry, for General Sir Isaac Brock, who had fallen at Niagara in Ontario of that year.
When about sixteen years of age, Issac Brock Aylsworth beganhis studies for a profession in the Bath Academy, and four years later took up the study of meidicne with Dr. A. Van Dyck, a graduate of the University of New York, then residing in Bath, but formerly from Kinderhook, N.Y.. In 1834-35, he continued his studies in medicine at the Medical College in New York city, of which Dr. V. Mott was the head, and in July 1835 commenced the practice of this profession at Bath under a provincial license, but moved to the Village of Newburgh, twelve miles north, in 1836, where and in Napanee he practiced until October 1854, excepting an interval of four years -- 1843 to 1847 -- spent in traveling for the Weslyan Methodist Church, with his residence at Demerstville, Prince Edward County, Ontario.
From 1854 to 1874 his time was devoted to the ministry and work of the W. M. Church of Canada, his labour being bestowed as follows: at Mitchel, Bond Head, Kleinburg and Colborne, each two years; Newcastle, one year; Cobourg, three years as treasurer and agent of the University of Victoria College, for which $30,000 was raised to liquidate its debt; Bradford, two years; Bond Head and Owen Sound, each one year; Collingwood, two years, Stayner and Newcastle, each one year; locating Collingwood in 1874 as a retired physician and minister.
In his own words, "More than once, 'truth stranger than fiction,' has been verified in the scenes through which I have passed." (Homer, p171)
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