from Darien, where he conducted a water cure. The 1889 Handbook of Beloit lists as newcomers among Beloit Physicians Samuel Bell; L. F. Bennett; Isaac Buckeridge and H. R. Clark homeopaths; Dr. (Mrs.) S.F. Dean, seemingly Beloit’s first woman physician; L. R. Farr; E. C. and A. C. Helm; W. A. Mellen, homeopath and bachelor, who slept in his office and whose home was at Rockton; F. W. Nye and Albert Thompson, eclectic and elecro-therapeutist. Dr. Thompson was a graduate of Bennett Medical College and was for six years a Presbyterian elder. He died in 1896 and was the father of L. Waldo, Elmer, and Ira F. Thompson (also a physician), and Fannie Thompson. While Samuel Bell did not locate in Beloit until 1874, he came to Rock County from New York State in 1849 at the age of eight. In 1860 he entered the office of Dr. Corydon Farr, Shopiere, to begin his medical studies, which were completed at the University of Michigan. He had a long Civil War experience and was first assistant surgeon of the Fifteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry on the march with Sherman to Atlanta. Dr. Bell was health of