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Dr. Samuel S. Whitney, a native of Natick, took his medical degree at Harvard in 1838. Dr. Whitney is believed to have been the first Dedham practitioner to have received the degree of M. D.
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Although at that time physicians knew little of pathology, physi- ology, biological chemistry and bacteriology in the modern sense yet they were successful physicians .* Dr. Whitney was a distin- guished physician and surgeon and had an extensive practise. His lamented death occurred June 30, 1855 at the age of forty years.
CLAPBOARD TREES PARISH. Dr. Joseph Richards born February 25, 1701 graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1721. He was "eminent in his profession" and an active citizen of the parish. He was evidently in practise in 1731 as he was elected the first clerk of the parish at that time. Dr. Richards was a jus- tice of the Peace, a colonel of the militia, and a representative to the General Court from 1744-1750. He died April 18, 1761 "leav- ing behind him a very amiable and honored name."
Dr. Francis Howe was the second and last resident physician of the parish. He was born in Framingham, September 26, 1787 and took up his profession in the Clapboard Trees Parish in June 1814. He was the beloved family physician and continued in ac- tive practise for forty-five years. He died May 18, 1859, an hon- ored and useful member of the community.
SOUTH PARISH. Dr. Philip Draper of Dedham graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1780. He located in Dedham South Parish as a physician where he died March 21, 1817.
Dr. Elisha Thayer commenced the practise of medicine in the South Parish in 1815 and removed to Dedham Village in 1819. He was succeeded by Dr. John K. Briggs who had an office in what is now the Civic Associate building.
In 1846 Dr. David S. Fogg, who had spent the preceding year in the medical schools and hospitals in Philadelphia, settled in the South Parish. He was educated at Holmes' Plymouth Academy, and Dartmouth College. He studied medicine with Dr. Josiah Crosby of Manchester, New Hampshire and took his degree of M. D. at the Dartmouth Medical School in 1845. Dr. Fogg soon obtained an extensive practise in this and the surrounding towns which he maintained through many years. During the course of his practise he received repeated calls from almost every town in Norfolk County.
Dr. Carlos Marston was a practitioner in the South Parish,
* The clinical thermometer had no real place in practise before 1868.
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but his sudden death cut off his brief career in the early sixties.
Dr. Francis M. Craigin settled in the South Parish in 1865. He was a graduate in homeopathy and practised that school of medicine having a large and extensive practise in the surrounding territory.
CATALOGUE* OF DEDHAM PHYSICIANS NOT PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED
William A. Alcott Bertha E. Ebbs
Henry F. Aton Edward W. Finn
Francis L. Babcock H. M. Grady
John W. Pratt
Harold L. Babcock James A. Halsted
Frederick C. Robbins
Hollis G. Batchelder George E. Hatton William E. Baxter Clark W. Heath
Robert Sanderson
George A. Southgate
Clarence J. Benson Andrew H. Hodgdon Robert W. Southgate
Lawrence M. Blanke Oscar Howe
Ray W. Spalding
William M. Bullard Walter C. Howe
William J. Taylor
Eben P. Burgess
Clarence M. Kelley
J. W. Tiede
John J. Carroll
Henry F. Mansfield
William G. Ware
John W. Chase
John P. Maynard **
W. B. Wood
Thomas W. Dike
Francis J. Moran
Arthur M. Worthington
Frederick P. Drew J. P. Paine ***
Walter H. Young
VETERINARIANS. Crieton C. Colburn, (West Dedham). Edward Knobel.
DENTISTS. Dr. A. S. Dudley of the dental firm of Grandin, Dudley & Blake of Boston became a resident dentist in Dedham in 1847 and appears to have been the first dentist of the town. He tendered his service to the residents "in all varieties of his profes- sion." Every operation was warranted from the filling of teeth to the manufacture and insertion of whole sets upon the atmos-
* Dr. Edward L. Holmes, a native of Dedham, graduated at Harvard in 1849 and took his degree of M. D. from Harvard Medical School In 1854. He was a distin- gulshed oculist and lecturer and professor of the eye and ear in the Rush Medical College in Chicago.
** Dr. Maynard while a student in the Harvard Medical School was the discoverer of collodion, a preparation much used In the medical profession, also commercially today. Having the spirit of the true physician he did not patent his discovery but gave It freely to the medical profession to help humanity. He also wrote the formula for Maynard's ink, a well known and still popular writing fiuld.
*** Dr. Paine was a homeopathic physician and practised his profession in Ded- ham in the early fiftics, the first doctor of his school to practise here.
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pheric principle with gums. Dr. Samuel Adams, who had prac- tised dental surgery for twelve years in the West and South located in Dedham in 1854. He had an office on High street near the bank. Here the Dedham Library Association was located.
SOUTH PARISH. Dr. David S. Fogg, who united dentistry with his medical and surgical work was the first dentist in this Parish. He extended his practise to Canton where in 1849 he had an office three days each week. He advertised filling, extracting, pivot teeth and artificial sets. Dr. A. D. Hazeltine located in South Dedham as a dentist in 1870 where he practised his profession for several years. Other Dedham dentists are as follows:
H. A. Aronson
Joseph T. Finn
Edward C. Schmalz Henry K. Shatswell
John B. Bisbee
Ralph M. Fogg
Frank F. Browne
George O. Gaymond J. C. Skinner
James J. Burns John F. Glancy J. E. Sullivan
John A. Curley
Frederick E. Grant Ezra F. Taft
Giles Dowling
Frank W. Musche Morace J. Tierney
William G. Farnham
John F. Murray James Neales
W. F. Welch
LAWYERS. The Dedham spirit was Anti-Federalist, even in the beginnings of the government. As most lawyers were Federalists, they were held in disrespect in Dedham. In May, 1787, the town gave their representative in the General Court the fol- lowing instructions: "The order of Lawyers :- We are not inatten- tive to the almost universally prevailing complaints against the practise of the order of lawyers; and many of us too sensibly feel the effects of their unreasonable and extravagant exactions; we think their practise pernicious and their mode unconstitutional. You will therefore endeavor that such regulations be introduced into our Courts of Law and that such restraints be laid on the or- der of lawyer, as that we may have recourse to the Laws and find our security and not our ruin in them. If upon a fair discussion and mature deliberation, such a measure should appear impracti- cable, you are to endeavor that the order of Lawyers be totally abolished; an alteration preferable to their continuing in their present mode."
In the early years of the Norfolk County Bar, there was great indignation felt against any one who had two offices. Lawyers
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who attempted to run more than one office were censured at bar meetings in formal manner as the following vote taken in Septem- ber 1805 shows: "Voted, unanimously, that the bar discounten- ances and will by no means sanction any gentleman of the profes- sion having more than one office at any time in the same or differ- ent towns ; and understanding that Perez Morton Esq., now has an office in Boston, and another in Dedham, further vote that the sec- retary of the bar furnish Mr. Morton with a copy of this vote, thereby requesting him to immediately relinquish and discontinue, both directly or indirectly, either one or the other of said offices. The secretary is desired, if the above request to Mr. Morton is not complied with, to make a communication on the subject to the Suffolk Bar."
Fisher Ames had a law office near the Court House which was later occupied by Theron Metcalf. Samuel Haven's office stood up- on his grounds and was the first office occupied by Waldo Colburn. For the most part, however, the lawyers of the town occupied a long building on Ames street near High street with their signs conspicuously displayed. The following catalogue contains past and present lawyers of the town.
Fisher Ames* George F. Connors William F. Hill
John W. Ames*
Harry I. Cummings W. H. Hitchcock
Seth Ames* Geo. Granville Darling Arthur W. Hoe
Daniel Beard
Frank E. Bradbury
Jeremiah Brown
Frederick Breen
John B. Durby Fernald Hutchins Frederick D. Ely* Frank Hutchins John P. Finn Henry M. Hutchings Artemus W. Gates Joseph S. Kennedy Wallace Gleason John King* Lawrence E. Green Joseph H. Knight A. Ward Lamson
John H. Burke, Jr.
Walter W. Chambers Ben H. Greenhood Harold C. Harris
Charles G. Mackintosh
Jabez Chickering* Arthur Clark Ira Cleveland* Jonathan H. Cobb*
Samuel T. Harris Samuel Haven* Alfred E. Henderson Edward V. Hickey
William McCallum
James F. McGowan
Horace Mann*
John D. Cobb
Theron Metcalf*
Waldo Colburn*
Don Gleason Hill
Joseph Morrill
A. Barr Comstock Don Gleason Hill, Jr. F. W. Murphy
* For biographical sketches see, "Bench and Bar," History of Norfolk County, 1884.
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Clayton W. Nash Robert H. O. Schulz Thomas L. Wakefield
Harvey P. L. Partridge Charles A. Shea
Winslow Warren
Russell G. Partridge Alfred C. Smith Charles Warren
Gardner Perry Joseph H. Soliday Alonzo B. Wentworth
Chester W. Pratt
Frederic J. Stimson
Ezra Wilkinson* Whiting Willauer
Chester R. Reed
Allen N. Swain
John C. Rice
Horace Townsend* George Fred Williams
James Richardson* Elmo B. Taylor
Erastus Worthington
James P. Roberts
Winthrop Wade
J. W. Worthington
Ezra W. Sampson* John L. Wakefield
AUTHORS. Dedham is not as prolific in authorship as some other New England towns, yet she is well represented in theology, mathematics, health, history, biography, fiction, ** politics and es- pecially in law.
John Allin was Dedham's first author. He published "A De- fence of the Nine Positions." This book was highly commended by the Rev. John Cotton, the famous Boston minister. A copy of this book is in the Badlein Library, Oxford, England.
Alvan Lamson. The Church of the First Three Centuries, or notices of the lives and opinions of some of the Early Fathers with special reference to the Doctrine of the Trinity illustrating its later origin and gradual formation. (An edition of this work was published in London in 1875.)
William A. Alcott. Young Man's Guide. Young Woman's Guide. The Young Housekeeper. Library of Health. Moral Re- form.
William Cogswell. "Assistant to Family Religion." "Theo- logical Class Book" re-published in England. "A Catechism on the Doctrines and Duties of Religion."
Calvin Durfee. "Annals of William College" on which it is said he spent a quarter of a century.
Edmund Quincy. "Wensley and Other Stories." "The Haunted Adjutant and Other Stories." "Congressional Speeches of Josiah Quincy."
John Lathrop Motley. "Morton's Hope." "Merrymount." (These novels were probably written in Dedham.) "The Rise of
** Margaret Deland the distinguished author lived in Dedham for some years, having a residence on Sandy Valley Road.
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the Dutch Republic." "The History of the United Netherlands." "Life and Death of John of Barneveld."
Frederic J. Stimson. Mr. Stimson is best known as the author of law books including American Statute Law (2 vols.), Stimson's Law Glossary, Handbook to the Labor Law of the United States, The American Constitution, Popular Law Making, The Western Way and American Democracy. His works of fiction appear un- der the pen name of J. S. of Dale and include Guerndale, The Crime of Henry Vane, The Sentimental Calendar, The Residuary Legatee, In the Three Zones, Pirate Gold, Mrs. Knollys and other stories, Jethro Bacon of Sandwich, King Noanett, First Harvests, Our Consul at Carlsruhe, In the Cure of Her Soul. My Story and My United States is his latest work.
George Willis Cooke, writer and lecturer on religious, social and literary subjects; author of Clapboard Trees Parish; Ralph Waldo Emerson, His Life, Writings and Philosophy; The Poets of Transcendentalism; George Eliot, a Critical Story of Her Writings and Philosophy ; Poets and Problems, a critique of Tennyson, Rus- kin and Browning. He wrote Unitarianism in America ; The Social Evolution of Religion and contributed numerous articles to period- icals.
Charles Warren. The Harvard Law School and Early Legal Conditions in America; History of the American Bar; The Su- preme Court in United States History, (awarded the highest Pulit- zer Prize in 1923). The Supreme Court and Sovereign States; Congress the Constitution and the Supreme Court; The Making of the Constitution ; Jacobin and Junto.
Jonathan H. Cobb. A Manual of the Mulberry Tree with Directions for the Culture of Silk. This work was an authority on the subject and was later republished by a Department of the United States Government.
ARTISTS *. Alvan Fisher. A renowned artist and portrait painter was a pupil of Gilbert Stuart. His studio was on a lot back of his residence on School Street (Sumner E. Brown House) facing Washington street. As a portrait painter he visited at one time the home of Henry Clay in Kentucky to fulfill a commission for painting the senator from life. He did much landscape paint-
* The following are numbered among Dedham artists.
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ing in New England including Mt. Desert. The Dedham Memorial Hall has Stuart's Equestrian portrait of General Washington copied by Alvan Fisher.
Henry S. Talbot. An artist of whom the town has reason to be proud. In early life he learned the use of engraving tools and made many wood engravings which he printed himself. In later years he became a marine painter with hardly an object in view excepting the iridescent rolling waves for which he obtained an en- viable reputation.
Philip Hale. Was an artist of eminent authority; a figure painter, critic and teacher. He studied at the school of the Boston Art Museum and at the Art Students League in New York, also at the Julian Academy and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. On his return from France he took a studio in Boston and accepted an appointment as a teacher in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, a position which he held for more than thirty years with con- spicuous success. His work as a figure painter received recognition in a steadily increasing degree as shown by the many awards and honors conferred upon him. Of the many exhibits held in Boston those at the Art Guild of Boston artists in 1916 and 1919 were most noteworthy. To the first of these exhibits the Corcoran Gallery in Washington lent the "Girl with Muff" which took the Harris Medal at the Institute of Chicago in 1914. "The Madonna of the Porcelain Tub" was also among the outstanding work shown. The exhibit of 1919 contained a group of uncommonly fine draw- ings in sanguine, silver point and pastel. Mrs. Philip Hale (Lillian W. Hale) is a talented portrait painter .*
Charles M. Cox. The exhibitions of Mr. Cox have enlisted much praise and great satisfaction to his many friends in Dedham. His collection has been painted during a long and busy life and rep- resent many scenes, north, south, east and west which he has brought to the observer's eyes. Mr. Cox's paintings include gar- dens, landmarks, sea and landscape, shipping, and the summer woods. Many of his pictures bear the warm bright colors of the summer time, the season when he has painted most.
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Louis K. Harlow. Devoted his talent to painting and etching. His dainty water colors adorn many homes. Numerous of his
* Dictionary of American Biographies.
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etchings were lithographically reproduced by L. Prang & Company including the Old Missions in California. He etched the illustra- tions for Longfellow's "Day-break." In literature he was the com- poser of "The Worlds Best Hymns."
Theodore K. Slafter. In preparation for his work Mr. Slafter studied in Munich. His early contributions to the Dedham Histor- ical Register of pen and ink drawing from photographs are re- called. The portrait of his father, Carlos Slafter, (for forty years the master of the Dedham High School,) which he exhibited in 1933 was greatly appreciated by those who had been his pupils.
Annie R. Slafter. (Mrs. Calvin Countryman). Her painting of the Old Fairbank's House-made many years ago-is highly prized by the owner-a picture worthy of adorning any public building in Dedham. Miss Slafter's crayon portrait of Miss Han- nah Shuttleworth, made from a death-mask, hangs in the place of honor in the rooms of the Dedham Historical Society.
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Elizabeth C. Fisher. (Mrs. Howard Clay). A pupil of Henri made many trips abroad for the purpose of study and painting. Of her many pictures painted in the old home town, the coasting scene on Federal Hill is especially remembered. In the library of her English home, a painting of a swan boat in the Boston Public Garden, is greatly appreciated by her many American visitors. Since living in England, she has had many exhibits in London where her paintings of flower sketches in English gardens are much admired.
Clara Perry. Has spent many years abroad in study and sketching. The Kitchen (Dining Room) of the Community House is adorned with many of her paintings. A portrait of Dr. Jeremy Stimson, the beloved physician, by Miss Perry, hangs upon the walls of the Dedham Historical Society.
Manley Butler for several years a student at the Boston Muse- um School of Fine Arts is our youngest artist. He has painted many landscapes in New England not neglecting scenes in his own community. His painting of the Allin Congregational Church, of which his father was the pastor, with the light falling through the trees is a delightful study and especially appreciated in Dedham.
Robert M. Bailey. A member of the Boston Art Club for fifty years and at the age of eighty-five is still painting .* He first ex-
* Deceased in 1936.
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hibited at the Boston Art Club in 1876 and later exhibited in New York and Philadelphia in oil and water color. Mr. Bailey has been interested in architecture and has built many houses and school buildings.
Charles E. Mills has had a studio in Dedham for many years. He is a portrait and landscape artist. In preparation for his work, Mr. Mills spent several years in study under Frank Duveneck in Florence and Carolus Duran in Paris, and has since made trips abroad for study and observation. His most notable work is found in the mural paintings of the Franklin Union in Boston. In prep- aration for this work Mr. Mills made a profound study of the life of Franklin and has here depicted in ten pictures, costumes, build- ings, furniture and other settings which are historically correct. The paintings are as follows: Franklin selling ballards on the streets of Boston, Franklin the Editor, Franklin making his kite experiment, Franklin's final home coming, Franklin the printer, Franklin as librarian of the library of Philadelphia, Franklin, the soldier, building Fort Allen, Franklin at the bar of the House of Commons, Franklin signing the Declaration of Independence, Franklin signing the treaty of alliance with France.
Jacob Wagner was born in Germany and came to America with his parents when four years old. He displayed in his child- hood a decided talent for drawing and naturally desired to take lessons on that subject, but circumstances prevented the carrying out of such plans of study. He entered the art store of A. A. Childs & Co. as a boy to learn the trade of picture framing. After a year spent at the store he made a visit to Germany with his mother where he began art studies. On his return to Boston he entered the art store of Doll & Richards, where he found more time to pursue his studies in art, and gradually worked into restor- ing painting at which he displayed much talent. About 1874 he entered the evening classes in the Lowell Institute and after two years of study here joined the life class at the Art Museum. He now devoted every leisure minute to painting. He continued his drawing at the Zeppo Club for several years and finally at the Boston Art Club. His first exhibit of landscapes and portraits was at Doll & Richards in 1885, which brought him great encourage- ment as his work was well received by the press. In 1883 he started in business for himself devoting his time more directly to
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art, especially as a restorer of paintings. As a portrait painter Mr. Wagner painted the portraits of many distinguished Bos- tonians. He exhibited in all the prominent exhibits in the leading cities of the country. At the Worlds Fair in Chicago he had three pictures, a portrait, a landscape and a figure painting. Of his Dedham work Mr. Wagner restored the portrait of Deborah Ames, the only daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Ames, for the Dedham His- torical Society. For the Ames School he made a copy of Stuart's portrait of Fisher Ames. The original portrait was given to George Cabot-the most intimate friend of Fisher Ames-and was copied by permission. Mr. Wagner died at the early age of forty three having already gained wide distinction.
Arthur B. Cutter, for many years engaged in decorative art, received his early training in evening schools. He later came un- der the instruction of Thomas H. Bartlett whose classes were held in the works of the Boston Terra Cotta Company. He was also a member of the life class of the Architectural Club, Lowell Insti- tute. Mr. Cutter studied the art of stained glass under McPherson and MacDonald, also worked with Frank Hill Smith; to whose business he later succeeded under the firm name of "The A. B. Cutter Company." Mr. Cutter's most notable work in stained glass is found in the large window of the Christian Science Church on Falmouth street, Boston. In decorative art the Parish House and Parsonage of the Unitarian Church in Fairhaven (Rogers Memorial Church) and the State House in Boston are good ex- amples. In the decoration of private houses his work has not been confined to New England, but has extended into the Middle States as well. Since his retirement from active business, Mr. Cutter has done considerable flower painting mostly in oil.
Henry Hitchings was one of the widest known teachers of art, as a public educational course, in this country. He was the chief factor in making the study of drawing a success in the Boston Public Schools where it was early introduced; he has been called the "father of the evening drawing school." Mr. Hitchings was an artist all his life, one of the early devoties of landscape art. In good times he visited the Rocky Mountains for the purpose of landscape painting. He exhibited much in his younger days, but early turned to the educational side of art where he had a rare gift of administration. In 1861 he was appointed professor of drawing
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in the United States Naval Academy where he spent eight years in the work. In 1870 Mr. Hitchings was appointed director of drawing in the Boston Schools, a position which he held for twenty years. He was one of the founders of the Boston Art Club and entrusted with the organization of its school of drawing. The rooms of the Dedham Historical Society are adorned by several of his works,-a landscape view of the Charles River meadows and a fine pen and ink drawing of two old chestnut trees on Cedar street, East Dedham, which were long familiar to residents of Dedham. A century ago these trees were a part of a group of five or six all of which have now disappeared.
Joseph R. DeCamp was born in Cincinnati and studied art in Munich and in Italy. He taught art in Cleveland, Ohio, before tak- ing up his residence in Dedham where he remained about a year. He became one of the best and most popular portrait painters in Boston. His painting of the "Girl with the Guitar" in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is well-known.
Edward Knobel, for thirty years a resident of Dedham, was born in Germany and received an art education at Dusseldorf Academy making a specialty of lithography. He came to this country in 1865 as a cartoonist for the London Illustrated News and located in St. Louis. He did Civil War sketching. In 1867 he came to Boston and for more than thirty-five years was in the employ of L. Prang and the Forbes Lithographic Company. To facilitate the study of New England Natural History, Mr. Knobel published a series of illustrated Guide Books, each booklet cover- ing its branch completely with correct drawings of each subject. A Guide to Find the Trees and Shrubs of New England. The Ferns and Evergreens of New England. The Day Butterflies and Dusk Flyers. The Beetles of New England. The Moth of New England. The Fresh Water Fish. The Frogs, Turtles and Snakes. His last book was All the Wild Animals of North America. The Bird Charts, Nos. 1 and 2 published by the Massachusetts Audubon Society were illustrated by Mr. Knobel.
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