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  • Founder of Choate House Santorium

Biography

George Sheyne Chattuck Choate was born 30 March 1827 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States to George Choate (1796-1880) and Margaret Manning Hodges (1805-1887) and died 28 June 1896 Pleasantville, Westchester County, New York, United States of unspecified causes. He married Susan Osgood Kittredge (1830-1925) 11 November 1852 .

George was an American physician and the founder of Choate House, a psychiatric sanatorium.

Choate graduated from Harvard College in 1846 and Harvard Medical School in 1849. He married Susan Osgood Kittredge (1830-1925).

Choate eventually moved to Westchester County, New York, where he started his own sanitarium. Choate added a wing to his house for use of his sanitarium to house patients being treated for mental and nervous disorders. One of Choate's most famous patients was politician and New-York Tribune founder Horace Greeley. Following his defeat for the Presidency of the United States in 1872, Greeley checked into Choate’s sanitarium where he died a few weeks later.

The Choate family also established The Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Choate died in 1896, but his Sanitarium remained open for another decade. In 1909, Choate’s widow had the wing her husband had constructed moved to its present location—just a stone's throw away from its former location using horses and, at an inch at a time, it took about six months to move. Mrs. Choate lived there until her death, at age 95, in 1926. Today, Choate’s sanitarium is now "Marks Hall" and his former residence is now known as "Choate House," both of which are located on the Pleasantville campus of Pace University.



Children


Offspring of George Sheyne Chattuck Choate and Susan Osgood Kittredge (1830-1925)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Joseph Kittredge Choate (1853-)
George Choate (1854-)
Margaret Manning Choate (1856-)
Susan Kittredge Choate (1860-)
Sarah Elizabeth Choate (1860-)
Mary Kittredge (1862-)
William Gardiner Choate (1865-)
Caroline Choate (1868-)
Arthur Osgood Choate (1875-1962)



Siblings


Offspring of George Choate (1796-1880) and Margaret Manning Hodges (1805-1887)
Name Birth Death Joined with
George Cheyne Shattuck Choate (1827-1896) 30 March 1827 Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States 28 June 1896 Pleasantville, Westchester County, New York, United States Susan Osgood Kittredge (1830-1925)
Charles Francis Choate (1828-1911) 16 May 1828 Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States 26 May 1911 Southborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States Elizabeth Waterman Carlile (1833-1898)
Sarah Elizabeth Choate (1829-1860) 24 September 1829 Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States 1 May 1860
William Gardner Choate (1830-1920) 30 August 1830 Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States 14 November 1920 Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States Mary Lyman Atwater (1837-1920)
Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917) 24 January 1832 Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States 14 May 1917 Manhattan, New York, United States Caroline Sterling (1837-)
Caroline Choate (1834-1889) 16 October 1834 Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States 4 November 1889 St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan, New York, United States Ernst Bruno von Gersdorff (1820-1883)




See Also




Footnotes (including sources)

‡ General
  • The Choates in American (1643-1896); John Choate and his Descendants, by E. O. Jamieson, Pg. 322



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