WEST, EDWIN – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons By E. Cleave

EST,
EDWIN, M. D., of New York city, was born in the township of Salina,
now Syracuse, September 1st, 1826. He is the seventh son of the Rev.
Royal and Roxanna West. He received his education at the Rochester (N.
Y.) Collegiate Institute, where he acquitted himself to the highest
satisfaction of his parents and instructors. When but a lad, he
exhibited an unusual fondness for study, and when in the elementary
branches was remarkable for his perfect lessons and rapid progress, and
it was not a matter of surprise that in the later period of his
educational course, he won the admiration of his classmates, the
commendation of his teachers, and the approbation of his parents and
friends.

     During his collegiate
days he often expressed to his intimate friends, a preference for the
medical profession, and before its close, had fully determined to make
it his life business. Very shortly after his graduation, in 1846, he
entered upon his medical studies in the office of Dr. Durfee Chase, of
Palmyra, N. Y., under whose instruction, and by his studious
application, he made rapid advancement. The following year he attended
medical lectures in New York, at the close of which he became a student
of Dr. Alfred Freeman, with whom he remained until he entered the New
York University Medical College, from which he graduated with honor, in
March, 1849. He opened the practice of his profession in Honesdale,
Pa. ; but in 1851, he was called to New York, to assist Dr. Louis
Hallock in his extended practice, with whom he remained till 1857. In
1854, he was married to Miss Susan Field, of whose companionship he was
bereft by death, at the expiration of about two years from the time of
their marriage. She died of consumption ; had given birth to one
child, which lived but a short time after its mother’s death. During his
association in business, for the period of about six years, with Dr.
Hallock, he earned a high reputation for professional skill, which in
full measure has followed him thus far in his career. In October of the
same year in which he dissolved his business relations with Dr. Hallock,
1857, he was married to the accomplished daughter of Dr. Wm.
Noble ; of Albion, N. Y. During this same year, also, he formed a
co-partnership with Dr. Hudson Kinsley, of 111 Amity Street, New York,
which continued for four years, when it ceased ; since which time
he has continued the practice of his profession by himself, with the
eminent degree of success and prosperity which he justly merits. Outside
of his profession, as well as in it, he is known for his sterling
principles, his noble, unostentatious charity, and his interest in every
good work. During his first years in New York, he took active part in
the origin and establishment of the Young Men’s Christian Association,
which has now become, indeed, a “power in the land.”

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