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eclectic physician in Leominster in 1860, continuing there four years ; he then practised four years in Ashburnham and came to Fitchburg in 1868. For two years he was president of Worcester North Eclectic Medical society and eleven years its secretary : for one year he was vice-president of the National Eclectic Medical Society, and died September 25th, 1877, aged 43 years.
DR. JAMES P. FOLEY studied at St. Mary's College in Baltimore, also at Holy Cross College in Worcester and the St. Joseph's Provincial College at Troy, N. Y. He grad- uated at Dartmouth College in 1872, and commenced practice in Fitchburg; he was a member of the Worcester North Medical Society. He died September 18th, 1881, aged 41 years.
DR. ANDREW J. FLAGG, a native of Royalston, was a graduate at the Philadelphia Medical College and commenced practice in Claremont, N. H., and a few years previous to his death removed to this city and made a specialty of chronic diseases. He died January 24, 1883, aged 49 years.
DR. JONAS A. MARSHALL, born March 26th, 1800, was for over forty years a practising physician in Fitchburg. He was chosen town clerk for twenty-four years in succession. He died in Charlestown, Mass., February 25th, 1887.
DR. EDWARD LISTON PILLSBURY, the oldest son of Dr. Levi Pillsbury, was born in Fitchburg in 1844; he grad- uated at the medical institution of Dartmouth College in 1865, and practised in Fitchburg until , 1868; he then re- moved to Boston, where he was in active practice until his death in 1880, aged 36 years.
DR. LEVI PILLSBURY graduated at the medical institution at Dartmouth College in 1842, settled in Fitchburg May Ist, 1844, and is the oldest practising physician in the city. Ex- cepting for a little more than a year in 1861 and 1862, on account of ill health, he has been in the active practice of his profession for more than forty years.
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DR. GEORGE D. COLONY graduated at Dartmouth Col- lege in the class of 1843: he studied medicine with the late Dr. Amos Twichell, of Keene. N. II., a prominent and well- known surgeon in his day, and attended lectures at the Med- ical Department of the University of Pennsylvania and re- ceived his degree at that institution in 1846. He commenced the practice of medicine in AAthol the same year and con- tinued in active practice there until his removal to Fitchburg in May, 1861.
DR. JABEZ FISHER graduated at the Medical Department of Harvard University in 1846: he settled in Fitchburg in 1851 as a hydropathic physician and surgeon, and in 1855 retired from practice and engaged in horticultural pursuits, on what he named "Pomoland," in the north part of the town. He at once took the first rank in fruit culture, and is authority, especially in all that pertains to the raising of grapes. In 1855 and 1856 he was chosen senator for Wor- cester Northeast Senatorial District. In 1857 and 1858 he was president of Worcester North Agricultural Society. From 1857 to 1863 he was an influential member of the State Board of Agriculture, and has since filled several positions in Fitchburg, with credit to himself and the city of his adoption.
DR. GEORGE JEWETT graduated at the Berkshire Med- ical College in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1847, at the age of 22 years. He continued his studies at Harvard Medical Col- lege, and was a pupil of the late Dr. Jacob Bigelow : he practised six years in Templeton and five years in Gardner, and came to Fitchburg in 1858. In January, 1862, he en- tered the army as assistant surgeon, was soon promoted to surgeon of the 5Ist Regt., and was honorably discharged with his regiment. He visited Europe in 1867 and 1868 : was president of Worcester North Medical Society in 1876-77 ; has been examining surgeon for pensions since 1864, and was president of the Examining Board of Pensions in this city. Ile was also president of Worcester North Agricultural So- ciety in 1878 and 1879, and a member of the State Board of Agriculture from 1881 to 1884. He is a trustee of the Public
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Library, president of the Hospital Cottage corporation, Baldwinville, director in the Fitchburg Fire Insurance Co .. president of the Board of Trade, and was councillor of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
DR. HUBBARD H. BRIGHAM, eclectic physician, came to Fitchburg in 1845 : he graduated at the Eclectic Medical col- lege in Worcester in 1855, and is active in his profession at this time.
DR. SARAH C. BRIGHAM, wife of the above, graduated at the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856, and has since been in the practice of her profession here in connection with her husband.
DR. DANIEL BRAINARD WHITTIER, was born in Goff's- town. N. H., October 21, 1834, being of Scotch-Irish descent by his maternal parent and of English by his paternal. He pursued an academic course at the New Hampshire Confer- ence Seminary receiving his medical education at Harvard Medical College and at the New York Homeopathic Col- lege. from the latter of which he graduated in March, 1863. Since that time Fitchburg has been his home and place of the practice of his profession. He has served the city as a, member of the school board : has been president of the State Homeopathic Medical Society, as well as the Worcester County Homeopathic Association.
DR. HOLLIS K. BENNETT, was born in Warren, Vt .. in 1838: received a common school education : took his medical degree at the Pennsylvania Medical University : began practice in Hartford. N. Y .. afterwards in Whitehall. where he was examining surgeon for pensions: came to Fitchburg in October. 1872 : is a member of the New York State Homeopathic Medical Society, American Institute of Homeopathy since 1869, and a member of the principal Homeopathic societies in Massachusetts.
DR. A. W. SIDNEY was born in Westminster, Feb. 27. 1824 : attended the public schools of that town and the West- minster Academy : graduated at Dartmouth Medical Col- lege ; began practice in Sterling in 1860 ; came to Fitchburg
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in 1866 and has been in the practice of his profession here since ; he is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Ninth Interna- tional Medical Congress : is also president of the corporation of the Home for Old Ladies.
DR. CHARLES H. RICE, was born in Ashburnham, Mass., in 1843 ; resided in Ashby from the age of two till sixteen and attended the public schools of that town ; entered Appleton Academy at New Ipswich, N. H., and graduated there in 1862; studied medicine at Harvard and Dartmouth Medical Colleges, graduating at the former in 1865 and the latter in 1866; began the practice of medicine and surgery in Fitchburg in the spring of 1866, where he still continues to reside and continue the practice of his profession ; is presi- dent of the Worcester North Medical Society ; surgeon of the 6th Regiment M. V. M. ; member of the school commit- tee and one of the trustees of the public library.
DR. F. H. THOMPSON was born in New Salem, Franklin county, Mass., Aug. 5, 1844; educated at New Salem Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy, Amherst College and Harvard Medical School; graduated from the latter May 1870; began practice in Fitchburg, May, 1874; was city physician in 1877, a member of the school committee from 1875 to 1878 and from 1878 to ISSI ; a trustee of the public library from 1882 to 1887 ; is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, joining in 1870; was surgeon on the staff of General Kimball in 1877-78.
DR. D. S. WOODWORTH, was born in Greenfield, Mass., Sept. 3, 1851. His parents moved West when he was quite small, and he attended the public schools of Fremont, Ohio. His father having died in Ohio, the rest of the family moved East again ; he going to Boston, where he entered the employ of C. F. Hovey & Co., and remained with them several years ; came to Fitchburg and began the study of medicine with Dr. H. H. Brigham, Jan. 1, 1873 ; graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department, Columbia College, New York, March 1, 1876; is a member
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of the Massachusetts Medical Society ; has practised in Fitch- burg since ; was city physician in 1879-80-81-84-85-86; president Worcester North Eclectic Medical Society, 1878; on school committee in 1879-80-81-82; medical director Massachusetts Mutual Aid Society for several years past ; past master C. W. Moore Lodge F. & A. M. ; past com- mander Jerusalem Commandery, K. T. ; past grand Roul- stone Lodge ; past chief patriarch King David Encampment, and Assistant Surgeon General Division of the East Patriarchs Militant, I. O. O. F. ; member of O. U. A. M. and A. L. HI. ; past chancellor of Alpine Lodge, K. of P., and is at the pres- ent time grand chancellor of Massachusetts K. of P.
DR. ERNEST P. MILLER, son of Alfred and Elsie L. Miller of Fitchburg, was born Jan. 4, 1851, in Ashburnham : fitted for college at Fitchburg high school, graduating in 1868; a student in Amherst College, 1868-70; teacher in Fitchburg, 1870; graduated at Harvard College, 1872 ; teacher in Fitchburg high school, 1872-4 ; graduated at Har- vard Medical School, 1876; medical examiner from 1877 ; city physician, 1880 and 1883.
DR. HERBERT H. LYONS, was born at Milford, Mass., Sept. 24, 1855 ; graduated from Milford high school, June, 1874; graduated from Boston College in 1878; began the study of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, Septem- ber 1878, and graduated therefrom in June, 1881 ; began the practice of medicine in Fitchburg, September, 1881, where he still continues to reside and practise medicine and surgery.
DR. ATHERTON P. MASON, is the son of Charles and Caroline Atherton (Briggs) Mason and was born in Fitch- burg, Sept. 13, 1856. He was educated in the public schools of this city, graduating from the Fitchburg high school in the class of 1875. In the fall of 1875 he entered Harvard Col- lege, where he remained four years, taking the degree of A. B. at his graduation in 1879. In October of the same year he entered the Harvard Medical School and took the full medical course of three years, graduating with the degree of M. D. in June, 1882. He remained in the vicinity of Boston,
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having an office in Somerville and attending exercises in the Boston City, and Massachusetts General Hospitals, until February, 1884, when he returned to Fitchburg and located permanently in his native city. Dr. Mason is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and secretary of the Worcester North District Medical Society.
DR. JOHN D. KIELTY, (sketch as city physician, chapter III.)
DR. C. W. SPRING, was born at Salmon Falls, N. II. : graduated from Dartmouth, 1880, and from Harvard Medical School in 1884: began the practice of his profession in Fitchburg in the spring of 1885.
DR. J. EVERETT LUSCOMBE, received his degree in 1885 at the Boston University School of Medicine, and set- tled in Fitchburg the same year, where he still continues the practice of medicine and surgery. He is a member of the Worcester County Homeopathic Medical Society.
DR. II. W. PIERSON, a practicing physician, recently lo- cated in West Fitchburg.
LAWYERS.
EBENEZER TORREY, (sketch as president of the Fitch- burg National Bank in commercial chapter.)
CHARLES MASON was born in Dublin, N. H., June 3, 1810. In 1829 he entered Phillips Exeter Academy, where he was fitted for college ; graduated at Harvard in 1834. From 1835 to 1839 he was a tutor in the University in the Latin department. Ile read law "at the Dane Law School and received the degree of LL. B. in 1839. In September, 1839, he was admitted at Boston to practise law in the courts of the state and in the circuit and district courts of the United States. He remained in Boston till May, 1841, when he opened an office in Lancaster, Mass., and in September. 1842, moved to Fitchburg where he has since resided. In June, 1842, he was appointed one of the standing commis- sioners of bankruptcy for the Massachusetts district under the
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United States Bankrupt law ; in August, 1845. master in chancery, an office which at that time had jurisdiction in in- solvency proceedings, and in July. 1851. a commissioner of insolvency for the county of Worcester. He was a member of the house of representatives of Massachusetts in 1849 and 51. In the latter year was one of the one hundred and ninety-three members who succeeded after a struggle of more than three months and on the twenty-sixth ballot in electing Charles Sumner to the United States senate. Mr. Mason was also a member of the constitutional convention in 1853. He married. Aug. 9. 1853. Caroline Atherton Briggs : and in 1857, built the residence on Laurel Hill where the family has since resided. Mr. Mason has always been deeply interested in the education of the young, and has had much to do with the public schools of Fitchburg, especially during the carly portion of his residence here. For several years he was an active member and chairman of the school committee of the town. He also took an active part in getting up the "Fitch- burg Atheneum." From 1864 to 1869 he was secretary of the Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Since that time his health has been impaired. at times so much as to compel him to seek a change of scene, and he has pursued no stated business.
T. K. WARE. a native of Cambridge, Mass., graduated at Harvard College. 1842. and at Harvard Law School in 1845 ; studied in Sidney Bartlett's office in Boston : admitted to the bar in 1846. and has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Fitchburg since; married Jan. 22, 1852. Lucy A. A. Marshall. daughter of the late C. Marshall of Fitchburg : was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1849 and 1854 and has been justice of the police court since it was established: from Sep- tember, 1864, to September. 1875. was in partnership with Charles H. B. Snow in the firm of Ware & Snow. which was dissolved upon the death of Mr. Snow : from Novem- ber, 1875, to July. 1879. was associated with George A. Torrey, in the firm of Ware & Torrey : from July, 1879.
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to July, 1887, it was Ware, Torrey & Ware, by the addition of his son C. E. Ware as junior partner. The firm is at present T. K. & C. E. Ware. Mr. Ware was con- nected with the Fitchburg library as trustee from the start, and has been chairman of the board since the death of its first president, C. H. B. Snow ; is president of the Fitchburg Savings Bank and a director in the Fitchburg National Bank.
AMASA NORCROSS, (sketch as Mayor, Chapter III. ) DAVID H. MERRIAM, (sketch as Mayor, Chapter III.)
GEORGE ARNOLD TORREY was born in Fitchburg, May 14, 1838, and is the son of Ebenezer Torrey and Sarah Arnold Torrey ; was educated in the schools of Fitchburg, Leicester Academy and Harvard College, graduating from the latter in 1859. Mr. Torrey received his legal education in Harvard Law School, graduating in 1861 ; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice the same year ; June, 1861, was married to Ellen Malibran Shirley of Boston; in 1875 became a member of the firm of Ware & Torrey, with T. K. Ware for a partner ; in 1879, Ware, Torrey & Ware, by the addition of C. E. Ware, and July, 1887, gave up prac- tice to become corporation counsel for the Fitchburg Rail- road, with an office in Boston.
STILLMAN HAYNES was born in Townsend, Mass., April 17, 1833 ; son of Samuel and Eliza (Spaulding) Haynes ; at- tended common and select schools of his native town and afterwards Leicester Academy and the Normal School at Lancaster. He was for some time at New Ipswich Academy an associate teacher and a student with Elisha F. Quimby, later professor of mathematics and civil engineering at Dart- mouth College. Mr. Haynes graduated at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., in 1859; in 1859 he entered the law office of Bonney & Marshall at Lowell as a student of law ; was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1861 ; commenced practice in Asburnham in 1862, but in 1863 returned to Towns- end and opened a law office, remaining there till 1868, when he removed to Fitchburg. While in Townsend he was a
RESIDENCE OF CHARLES T. CROCKER, PROSPECT STREET.
RESIDENCE OF MRS. SALMON W. PUTNAM, WALNUT STREET.
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member of the Board of Selectmen, and for several years served on the School Committee of the town. Since his removal to Fitchburg, he has devoted himself exclusively to the practice of his profession. He has been elected for several terms on the School Board of which he is a member at the present time. Mr. Haynes married October 8, 1863, Hattie M. Kimball, of Temple, N. H.
CHARLES S. HAYDEN was born in Harvard, Mass., Nov. 10, 1848 ; son of James G. and Lucretia B. Hayden. He attended the public schools of his native town and the Groton High School ; graduated at the Fitchburg High School in the class of 1869 : read law with Wood & Torrey, and then entered the Harvard Law School, where he graduated with the degree of LL .B. in 1871 ; admitted to the bar in August, 1871. June 13th, 1879, Mr. Hayden was appointed Special Justice of the Fitchburg Police Court. He married January 23d, 1873, Miss Mary E. Lawrence, of Fitchburg.
HARRIS C. HARTWELL was born in Groton, Mass., De- cember 28, 1847; son of Benjamin F. and Emma W. Hartwell. He graduated at Lawrence Academy in 1865 and then entered Harvard College, graduating there in 1869; read law in the office of Hon. Amasa Norcross, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1873 ; in 1874 he entered into partnership with Mr. Norcross, forming the well-known legal firm of Norcross & Hartwell. He was a member of the Massa- chusetts House of Representatives in 1883-84-85, and of the Massachusetts Senate in 1887. He was chairman of the judiciary committee in the House in 1885 and of the same committee in the Senate in 1887. For ten years ( 1877-1886) Mr. Hartwell was City Solicitor of Fitchburg. He has been a member of the School Board. As a member of the Fitchburg Harvard Club, he has for some years served most acceptably as its president. He married, October 23d, 1877. Effie M. F. Needham, daughter of Col. Daniel Needham, of Groton.
SAMUEL L. GRAVES was born in Groton, Mass., July 18th, 1847; son of John J. and Lucy Graves ; graduated at
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Lawrence Academy, Groton, and then entered Amherst Col- lege, where he graduated in 1870; then came to Fitchburg and read law in the office of Wood & Torrey for three years. and opened an office of his own. Though often urged to be a candidate for public office, Mr. Graves has always refused such offers, preferring to devote himself to the practice of his profession. Ile has been a member of the School Board ; was married in 1878 to Mary E. Lane. daughter of Abbie E. and the late James B. Lane, of Fitchburg.
HARRISON BAILEY was born in Fitchburg July 12th, 1849 : son of E. Foster and Dorothy S. Bailey : educated in the public schools of Fitchburg and fitted for college at the Fitchburg High School; graduated at Amherst College in 1872 : Harvard Law School 1874: read law with George A. Torrey and was admitted to the bar in September, 1874. He immediately afterwards opened an office on his own account and has since continued in the practice of general law bus- iness : is one of the commissioners to qualify civil officers.
CHARLES F. BAKER was born in Lunenburg, Mass., Dec. 4, 1850; son of William and Olive R. (Boutwell) Baker ; graduated from the Fitchburg High School in 1868 : Harvard College 1872 ; read law with Norcross & Hartwell ; was teacher in Fitchburg High School 1872-74 ; admitted to the bar in 1875, and was Assistant District-Attorney for Wor- cester county at one time : has been in the office of Norcross & Hartwell since admission to the bar and became a member of the firm of Norcross, Hartwell & Baker, January 1, 1887 : has been a member of the School Board ; married April 24, 1879, Henrietta Woods, of Winchester. Mass.
JAMES H. McMAHON was born in Tulamore, Kings County, Ireland, Feb. 4, 1850 ; son of John and Sarah Mc- Mahon. His parents came to this country a few months after his birth and located at Shirley, Mass. Mr. McMahon attended the public schools of Shirley and also had private instruction in Boston. Hle read law with E. B. O'Connor, of Boston, and later with James M. Woodbury, of Fitchburg. He was admitted to the bar in September, 1877. In November, 1877, he opened an office where he has since continued in
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the practice of general law business. Mr. McMahon has been a member of the School Board.
EDWARD P. PIERCE (see sketch in the City Government chapter. )
THOMAS F. GALLAGHER was born at Lynn, Mass .. Dec. 27, 1855 : son of Thomas and Anne N. Gallagher : educated in the public schools of Lynn : graduated at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. in 1876: read law with Hon. William D. Northend in Salem : admitted to the bar in October, 1878 : had an office in Lynn till December 15. 1881, when he came to Fitchburg and opened an office, and continued in bus- iness for himself till September, 1886, when he entered into partnership with the late John W. Walsh.
CHARLES E. WARE was born in Fitchburg, July 17, 1853 : son of Thornton K. and Lucy A. A. Ware: educated in the public schools of Fitchburg during early youth : entered Rox- bury Latin School, where he graduated in 1872 : graduated at Harvard College in 1876, and Harvard Law School in 1878 : July Ist. 1879. the law firm of Ware. Torrey & Ware was founded. he being junior member of it : July 1, 1887, the firm became T. K. & C. E. Ware on account of Mr. Torrey be- coming corporation counsel for the Fitchburg Railroad Co., and being obliged to give up other practice. Mr. Ware mar- ried June 30. 1881, Harriet P. Long of Roxbury.
JAMES A. STILES was born in Fitchburg. Sept. 1. 1855 : son of James F. and Ann M. ( Works) Stiles. He was ed- ucated in the public schools of Fitchburg, graduating from the High School in the class of 1873 : entered Harvard Col- lege and graduated in the class of 1877: read law with George A. Torrey and Harrison Bailey, of Fitchburg, and was admitted to the bar in August. 1880: in May, 1882. he formed a partnership with Edward P. Pierce and opened an office of the firm in West Gardner, Mass., where he has since continued : was appointed. May 4, 1884. Trial Justice, and June II. 1884, Senior Special Justice of the First District Court of Northern Worcester county. Mr. Stiles married, June 9, 1887, Miss Mary L. Emerson. of Claremont, N. H.
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JOHN W. WALSH was born at Leominster, July 22, 1860, and was the second of a family of ten children of James and Bridget Walsh. He was an apt scholar and made rapid progress in the public schools of his native town. While pur- suing his studies in the Leominster High School he com- menced reading law in the office of Hamilton Mayo. After graduating at the high school in 1876, he entered Holy Cross College at Worcester, intending to take the full course, but about the end of the first year his health was impaired by a severe attack of lung fever. As soon as his health was suf- ficiently restored he entered the Law Department of Boston University, where he graduated in 1880 ; he was admitted to the bar in Suffolk county the same year, and very soon after he had attained his majority. He came to this city in the latter part of the same year, and in partnership with John W. Corcoran, of Clinton, commenced the practice of law. The partnership lasted till 1886, when, September 6, Mr. Walsh and Thomas F. Gallagher formed a copartnership for the practice of law. Soon after he came to Fitchburg he de- livered an address on Robert Emmet which showed that he possessed much ability as an orator. In 1882, he was invited by Post 19, G. A. R., to deliver the oration at St. Bernard cemetery on Memorial Day, and performed the duty so admirably that he was invited to be the orator at the same place on a similar occasion in 1884 and again in 1886. Mr. Walsh was always deeply interested in political affairs, and frequently spoke at Democratic campaign meetings, both here and in other parts of the State. He was a candidate of his party for representative in 1885, and led his ticket in this city. In 1883 he was elected a member of the school com- mittee from Ward 2 for three years, and did good service on the board. He was also a leader and president of the local branch of the National Land League, and did much to arouse the sympathy of his fellow-citizens for Ireland's cause. He was also for a time 2d lieutenant of the Washington Guards, (Co. D, 6th regiment) and always took a deep interest in the success of the company. Mr. Walsh died Aug. 12, 1887. Few young men have made so rapid progress in their chosen
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profession as Mr. Walsh, and few lives have been so full of promise of usefulness and attainment as the one just closed. He was a very genial companion and his social qualities made acquaintance friendship.
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