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Dr. Fyfield H. Longley, a Physician and Surgeon,
was born in Bingham, Somerset Co., Maine on March 7, 1833. He began
the study of medicine in Gardiner, Maine, with Dr. Stephen Whitmore.
He took his first course in medicine in Bowdoin Medical College,
in Brunswick, Maine, where he entered school on February 8, 1855.
He went to Plainfield, Wisconsin, in the fall of 1856, and practiced
until the winter of 1859, and the following spring went to Scott
River, Siskiyou County, California, where he practiced medicine
and operated a drug store, and was Postmaster, which he continued
until October, 1862, at which time he was appointed Assistant Assessor
of Internal Revenue, and moved to Yreka, where he held that position
for four years. In the meantime, July 27, 1863, he was appointed
Deputy United States Collector and Inspector of tobaccos, liquors
and cigars, and held the same until the fall of 1866, at which time
he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and took his next course of lectures
the same fall in the Eclectic Medical Institute, receiving the degree
of M. D. He came to Omaha in the spring of 1867, where he practiced
medicine for two years. He went to Blair, in the spring of 1869,
and practiced there three years. He was then appointed Receiver
in the United States Land Office at North Platte, and located there
in August 1872, which position he occupied until April 1875. He
was Receiver and Disbursing Agent for the Western States Pension
Bureau, for North Platte, and County Physician for Lincoln County.
He was married April 24, 1877, in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, to
Miss Anna E. Rhodes, of Somers, Kenosha County. She was born April
14, 1845. In 1890, they had one son--Jonas Rhodes Longley, born
July 17, 1879. Dr. L. was appointed Regent of the State University
of Nebraska in 1869, for a term of six years. In 1890, he owned
a stock ranch three miles southwest of North Platte, on which he
had 100 head of cattle, and about fifteen hundred acres of deeded
land in the county. In 1882, Andreas said the Doctor "stands high
in his profession as a physician and surgeon, being favored with
the best practice in the vicinity".
Sources:
Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska, 1882, published
by The Western Historical Company, A. T. Andreas, Proprietor, Chicago,
Illinois.
Johnson's History of Nebraska, Harrison Johnson, Omaha, Published
by Henry Gibson, Herald Printing House, 1880.
Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences, Nebraska Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, 1916, The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.
North Platte City Cemetery - Historical Tour, City of North
Platte, Nebraska 1999
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