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HENRY DE WITT JOY, son of Joseph Franklin and Anna Maria (Conrad) Joy, was
born in New York City, June 12, 1841. He was fitted for college at Smith's private school,
New York City, and entered our Class September, 1859. After remaining with us through
Sophomore year, he joined the Class of 1862 as a special student, remaining one year with
them. In 1889, he received the B. A. degree from our college trustees, and was entered, in
the General Catalogue, on the graduate roll of our Class. While in college, Joy joined the
Delta Psi fraternity; he was also a member of the 'Technian Literary Society, and of
Greylock Baseball Club.
After leaving college, our classmate entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
New York City, and was graduated in 1866. He then became physician for the Nursery and
Child's Hospital on Randall's Island for one year, and for two years was surgeon on the
vessels of the Pacific Steamship Company, plying between New York and Aspinwall.
Joy then, in 1869, began the practice of medicine in New York. He was physician
on the Board of Health of the city for nearly three years; surgeon for the New York Eye
and Ear Infirmary for several years, until 1883, when he was appointed resident physician
at the Sailors' Snug Harbor on Staten Island. Joy held this position until 1900, when he
resigned by reason of ill health, and was appointed consulting physician for the institution
which he had so faithfully and acceptably served for seventeen years. The next two years
Joy spent with his family in Europe, passing one winter of this period in Vevey, Switzerland,
where his son attended school. The family returned late in the autumn of 1901, and have
since been living in New York City.
On the 14th of June, 1876, Joy married Abbie Thorp, the daughter of Andrew and
Abby (Green) Thorp, of New York City and Fairfield, Connecticut. They have had two
children, both sons: one born October 23, 1881, and died in infancy; the other, Russell
Eliot, born April 14, 1885, in Staten Island. Attended school at the Staten Island Academy
and in Vevey, Switzerland. He is now junior clerk in the Knickerbocker Trust Company,
at 66 Broadway, New York City.
Source:
Class of Sixty-Three Williams College Fortieth Year Report, by
the Class Historian, Thomas Todd Printer, Boston, 1903
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