STRONG, THOMAS MORRIS – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

     TRONG,
THOMAS MORRIS, Boston, Massachusetts, was born at Rosendale, Ulster county, New York, June 12, 1848, son of Thomas Campbell Strong and Mary Watson
(Mann) Strong. On the father’s side he is descended from Elder John Strong of Taunton, England, who settled in Massachusetts Bay colony in what is now
Dorchester, in 1630, and later lived at Northampton, where he was a conspicuous figure and was associated with Captain John Mason and other prominent
men and was a member of the general court in 1641-44. Dr. Strong had four ancestors, two on each side, who were prominent in the revolutionary war and
conspicuous in civil life. Dr. Strong’s grandfather, Thomas Morris Strong, was for forty years pastor of the Dutch Reformed church in Flatbush, now
Brooklyn, and his father also was a clergyman in both the Dutch Reformed and Congregational churches. Dr. Strong received his elementary education in
the district schools of Newtown, Long Island, and the grammar school of New York, and his higher education at Rutgers College, where he graduated A. B.
in 1868 ; and received the degree of A. M. in 1871. In the latter year he also took his M. D. at the New York Homœopathic Medical College and
opened practice in general medicine at Aurora. Cayuga county, New York. He remained there until 1874 and then removed to Pittsburgh, where he resided
until 1883, when he accepted the position of chief of staff on Ward’s Island, New York. He held this position until he settled in Mason, Georgia,
continuing general practice until 1893. He then came to Boston to accept the position of superintendent of the Massachusetts Homœopathic Hospital,
which he held six years, when he took up his present specialty of diseases of the ear, nose and throat. Dr. Strong is a surgeon at the throat clinic of
the Boston Homœopathic Dispensary and also of the throat and ear clinics of the Hull Street Medical Mission. He is a member of the Sons of the
Revolution and the Society of Colonial Wars, former member of New York and Pennsylvania State societies, member of the Massachusetts Homœopathic
Medical Society, Boston Homœopathic Medical Society, and its former president, Massachusetts Surgical and Gynecological Medical Society, and its former
secretary and vice-president, American Institute of Homœopathy, and for twelve years its recording secretary, American Homœopathic Otological,
Ophthalmological and Laryngological Society, a Mason, a member of St. John’s Lodge, the first lodge of free masons organized in America, and member of
the Viginti Club. He married, October 20, 1885, Sarah Harwood Sibley, of Ithaca, New York, whose father was the first homœopathic physician to settle
in that city.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King