BRIRY, MILTON STORY – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons By E. Cleave

RIRY,
MILTON STORY, M. D., of Bath, Me., was born m the town of Bowdoin,
in that State, May 17th, 1825. His grandfather, Thomas Briarhurst, or
Brierhurst, was born in Lincolnshire, England, and came to Maine about
the time of the revolution, settling at Bowdoin, where he raised a large
family. Joseph, the youngest of his sons, was the father of the subject
of our sketch. He appears to have been a man of rather uncommon
capacities, having been a famous trainer of youth, and a justice of the
peace for many years. By an Act of the Legislature he had his name
changed from Briarhurst to Briry. Young Milton’s education was directed
at the ordinary district school until he had reached the age of sixteen,
when he attended the Litchfield Academy. The youth was, however,
compelled to give up his studies at this time ; for his father,
dying, left injunctions that Milton should work upon the farm for the
benefit of his mother and sisters. He did his duty without complaint,
looking to the future for recompense, which finally came and in such
amplitude as to make full amends. After be arrived at the age of
twenty-one, the limit prescribed by his father, he again attended
Litchfield Academy, teaching school during the winter months, and
intending to prepare himself for Bowdoin College. By the advice of Dr.
Cochran, however, he gave up the idea of a general college course, and
decided to study medicine. He attended his first lectures in the Medical
School of Bowdoin during the winter and spring of 1850, and after three
full courses -reading, in the meantime, with Dr. T. G. Stockbridge- he
received his diploma in May, 1853. After this he was assistant to Dr.
Haley, at Lubec ; visited New York and the great hospitals of the
metropolis ; and finally coming to Bath, entered into practice.
This, it must be remembered, was all on an allopathic basis. Some three
years after his graduation he commenced the study of homœopathy with
Dr. W. E. Payne, and speedily becoming a convert to the reform
doctrines, grew to be one of the most able as well as enthusiastic
exponents of the system. His practice is large and constantly
increasing, and very few medical men in New England are more widely or
favorably known than Dr. Briry. He is also a man of good executive
power, and has been entrusted by his fellow townsmen with various
offices of honor and responsibility.

Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave