Joseph Strong, M.D., Yale 1788 *

Joseph Strong was born March 10, 1770, at South Coventry, Connecticut. He was graduated from Yale College in the Class of 1788, he studied medicine, and he served as a surgeon in the Legion of General Anthony Wayne during the Ohio Campaign of 17931797. Later he settled in Philadelphia, where he became a leading physician and surgeon of his time and where he died on April 24, 1812. Joseph Strong was the son of Deacon Benajah Strong, a farmer who served as a Revolutionary soldier, and the grandson of Captain Joseph Strong,-both were leaders in the Congregational Church. Elizabeth, the sister of Deacon Benajah, married Richard Hale and became the mother of Nathan Hale, the martyr of the American Revolution. The Nathan Hale birthplace and the homestead of Captain Joseph Strong stand across the road from each othert a few miles out of South Coventry. The first-born of a family of ten or more children, Joseph Strong was reared upon a farm, but nothing has been recorded about his