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Butcher in 1846. Dr. Butcher was farming the land while he set up a medical practice inside the dwelling. Dr. Joseph Butcher's son Dr. Samuel Butcher also practiced and lived in the home. A probate inventory taken at the time of Dr. Samuel Butcher's death in 1901 indicates that medical supplies were kept in both the "Front Room Downstairs" and "Office Room." These two rooms, located across from the stairway, are where the physicians would have received and examined patients.
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The private residence was built by George
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