Dr. Caroline Garlock M.D. was born on 12. Jan. 1867 at New York. She was the daughter of
Menzo Garlock and
Jane Ann Armstrong. Dr. Caroline Garlock M.D. was graduated on 26. Jun. 1896 at University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan. She was an intern in 1897 at Philadelphia Hospita, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. She was began the general practice of medicine on 11. Oct. 1897 at Ames, Montgomery County, New York.
In the late 19th century, few females were educated as doctors in this Country. Only a few schools, including the University of Michigan, where Dr. Garlock studied, even allowed woman to attend. One of the first female graduates to attend the school, she graduated with honors and then established a long and successful career locally.

Dr. Caroline Garlock M.D. was shown in the census on 7. Jun. 1900 as a physcian.
Dr. Caroline Garlock M.D. appeared on the census of 7. Jun. 1900 at with her parents, Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York. Dr. Caroline Garlock M.D. was shown in the census on 2. Jan. 1920 as a physician.
Dr. Caroline Garlock M.D. appeared on the census of 2. Jan. 1920 at Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York. Towns and villages: Ames, Buel, Canajoharie
Source: History of the Mohawk Valley - Gateway to the West - 1614-1925
Covering The Six Counties of Schenectady, Schoharie,
Montgomery, Fulton, Herkimer and Oneida.
Volume IV, Illustrated; Page 666
Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1925
Among the busy and successful physicians in the community in which she resides is Dr. Caroline L. Garlock of Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York, whose birth occurred at Ames, this state, on January 12, 1867. Her parents, Menzo and Jane Ann (Armstrong) Garlock, were married on January 21, 1857. Menzo Garlock, son of George A. and Margaret (Lambert) Garlock, was of German, English and Spanish parentage and was born in the town of Canajoharie on February 8, 1834. He devoted his attention to general agricultural pursuits throughout his active business career and had attained the age of seventy-two years when he entered his final rest on the 13th of October, 1906. The Garlocks came from the Palatinate of Germany and originally spelled the name Gerlach.
George Garlock, the great great-grandfather of Dr. Caroline L. Garlock in the paternal line, emigrated to this country in 1708. His son, Adam Garlock, who served in the Revolutionary war, was born in 1754 and lived to the advanced age of ninety-one years, passing away in 1845. He had a grant of one thousand acres of land and after getting the property cleared and under cultivation he raised wheat on an extensive scale, harvesting crops of three thousand bushels. This grain he hauled to Albany and Schenectady, and on the return trips he brought back merchandise for his son, William A. Garlock, who conducted a store to the south of the father's home and farm. Adam Garlock burned the bricks used in the construction of a colonial brick house which he erected and which is still standing. He also built a brick house for his son, Adam Garlock (II), who lived in the vicinity of Buel in Montgomery County. At the time when he first began to clear his land in order to prepare it for cultivation, his wife and children were obliged to remain at Fort Clyde on account of the danger of Indian attack. On more than one occasion they gave Adam Garlock a lively chase to the fort. He had a horse named John which apparently was aware when the Indians were near and at such times snorted in a peculiar manner to warn his master.
George A. Garlock, son of Adam and Hannah (Gray) Garlock and paternal grandfather of Dr. Garlock, was born in the year 1790 and participated in the War of 1812. In early manhood he wedded Margaret Lambert, daughter of Peter and Anna (Lipe) Lambert. Peter Lambert, whose natal day was August 12, 1760, served as a soldier of the Revolutionary army and assisted in the burial of ninety persons who were killed in the Cherry Valley massacre in November, 1778. On the l5th day of March, 1783, he wedded Anna Lipe, whose birth occurred November 23, 1763. George A. and Margaret (Lambert) Garlock were the parents of ten children: Anna, who was born on December 8, 1813; Eliza, April 14, 1815; Peter, June 9, 1817; Catharine, October 4, 1819; John, April 26, 1822; Susan, January 14, 1825; William, January 24, 1827; Silas, December 19, 1829; Menzo, February 3, 1834, and Elizabeth January 14, 1837. The members of this family all attained an unusual age with the exception of three who died of typhoid fever when past twenty. Several of the number lived to be past ninety, while one lacked but four years of reaching the century mark.
Mrs. Jane Ann (Armstrong) Garlock, daughter of Nathan J. and Maria (Covenhoven) Armstrong and mother of Dr. C. L. Garlock, was of Holland, Scotch and Irish descent and was born on the 28th of August, 1832. The Armstrongs were of Scotch and Irish descent and the Covenhovens came from Holland. The Covenhovens first settled in Monmouth County, New Jersey, but later migrated to Montgomery County, New York, taking up their abode in the town and village of Glen. The spelling of the name Covenhoven was subsequently changed to Conover.
The mother of Nathan J. Armstrong, the maternal grandfather of Dr. Garlock, bore the maiden name of Margaret Schuyler and was a descendant of Philip Schuyler. Nathan J. Armstrong was born on January 25, 1810, while the birth of his wife, Mrs. Maria (Covenhoven) Armstrong, occurred on the 7th of June, 1809. The latter was the daughter of Seth and Jane (Hotaling) Covenhoven, who were born on the 9th of July, 1782, and the 10th of January, 1785, respectively. Their wedding ceremony was performed by "Dominie" Van Horn of Caughnawaga, who it is said married fifteen hundred couples. Seth and Jane (Hotaling) Covenhoven were the parents of six children: Peter, whose birth occurred on September 13, 1806; Maria, June 7, 1809, and who was the maternal grandmother of Dr. C. L. Garlock; Catherine Jane, May 11, 1811; Eliza Ann, May 15, 1815; Seth (II), April 10, 1818, and Rose Ellen, October 31, 1821. All lived to a good old age with the exception of Peter, the first-born, who met a tragic death when a young man of twenty. He was thrown from a spirited horse which he was riding in "general training" and died from his injuries on the following day.
Dr. Caroline L. Garlock is the youngest of three daughters born to Menzo and Jane Ann (Armstrong) Garlock, her elder sisters being Mary Josephine and Viola Jane Garlock. Mary Josephine Garlock was born on September 10, 1858, and was married on November 15, 1883, to George L. Winne, who is deceased. To this union three children were born: Harold Garlock Winne, who has passed away; Worden Elliott Winne, and Bernard Armstrong Winne. Worden Elliott Winne was born on April 3, 1886, and following his graduation from the Canajoharie high school he entered the law department of Cornell University, from which institution he was graduated on the 20th of June, 1907. He afterward became legal adviser for Gimbel Brothers of New York City and resides at Freeport, Long Island. On the 20th of February, 1916, he wedded Margaret Collins of New York City. Bernard Armstrong Winne, son of George L. and Mary Josephine (Garlock) Winne, was born in November, 1888. Viola Jane Garlock, daughter of Menzo and Jane Ann (Armstrong) Garlock, was born on August 30, 1860, and departed this life on February 18, 1902. In October, 1888, she was married to Milton Countryman, now deceased. They had one child, Leland Garlock Countryman, who was born on May 23, 1892, and who died on August 13, 1899.
The early schooling of Caroline L. Garlock, whose name introduces this review was received in the academy at Ames, New York. After deciding upon the practice of medicine as her life work, she attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor for four years, graduating on June 26, 1896, with the degree of M. D. She then spent one year in a Philadelphia hospital as intern, after which she returned to her home town of Ames, New York, where on October 11, 1897, she began the general practice of medicine and where she remained for two decades. In June, 1918, she removed to Canajoharie, New York, where she has continued in practice to the present time. Like her two sisters, she devoted her attention to teaching prior to taking up the practice of medicine. Her mother also taught in the public schools before her marriage to Menzo Garlock.
In politics Dr. Caroline L. Garlock is an independent republican, while along strictly professional lines she has membership connections with the Montgomery County Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. She is a Protestant with liberal views on all important question of the day and by her sterling characteristics has justified the respect and confidence in which she is held by the medical fraternity and the local public.
Variations: Houghtaling
Morgan B. Garlock - William D. Garlock.