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JULIUS BLODGET, M.D., son of Alden Blodget, was born in Stafford, Conn., September 22, 1825. He re- ceived his early education at Monson and Wilbraham, Mass., alternating his school-days by work on a farm. He studied medicine at and graduated from the Uni- versity of New York. He practiced medicine in Stafford Springs from 1853 to 1857, and in West Brookfield from 1857 to 1876, and in Newtonville, Mass., since 1876. He has been a member of the Con- necticut State Medical Society and United States Medical Society.
In 1854 he was married to Miss Sarab L. Arnold, of Warren, Mass., and after her death was married, in 1861, to Mrs. Eliza F. Dunnells, of West Brookfield, Mass.
JOHN DUDLEY LOVERING, M.D., son of Gilman Lovering, was born in Raymond, N. H., March 8, 1827. He was educated at Dartmouth College. Be- fore he entered college he was a teacher, and during his course of studies there he taught a part of the time. In 1861 he settled iu Essex, Mass., and con- tinned to practice medicine there nearly twenty years.
He graduated at the Albany Medical College, N. Y. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He married Miss Sarah H. B. Cogswell, of Essex, Mass.
CHARLES F. CREHORE, M.D., son of Lemuel Cre- hore, was born June 18, 1828, in Newton Lower Falls. After studying at the academy in Milton, he gradu- ated at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, N. Y., in 1848. 'He afterwards entered the Harvard Medical School, and graduated in 1859.
Before studying medicine he was employed, as a civil engineer, in building United States roads in Minnesota during the year 1854. In 1867 he retired from medical practice, and since that time has devoted himself to the manufacture of paper.
He went to Europe in May, 1852, and remained traveling abroad till September, 1853. He settled in Boston in 1859, and made that his home until 1866. He now resides in Newton Lower Falls.
Dr. Crehore has an excellentand distinguished war record, extending from the beginning to the end of the conflict. May, 1861, he was appointed surgeon on the armed transport " Cambridge." In December, 1861, he was appointed acting assistant-surgeon to the Twentieth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infan- try. He was promoted and appointed surgeon of the Thirty-seventh Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and served with that regiment from August, 1862, till December, 1864. During this time-from April, 1863, to April, 1864,-he served as medical in- spector, Sixth Army Corps, and surgeon-in-chief First Division, Sixth Army Corps. At the battle of Win- chester, Va., in September, 1864, he had charge of the wounded of the Sixth Corps.
Dr. Crehore is a member of many medical and other scientific societies, including the Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston Society for Medical Observa- tion, Natural History Society, etc., etc.
He has written articles for medical and other jour- nals, on professional and other topics. He has been an active member of the Newton Water Board. He was married, September 29, 1857, to Mary W. Loring, daughter of Henry Loring, of Boston.
D. WAYLAND JONES, M.D., son of Daniel Jones, was born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, January 14, 1829. His early education was obtained in West- minster and Winchendon, Massachusetts. He grad- nated from the University of New York in 1852. He practiced in Medfield, Massachusetts, from 1854 to 1866, when he removed to Newtonville, Massachusetts, where he continued in general practice till 1878, and then settled in Boston. Since that time he has made diseases of the rectum a specialty and has given up general practice. In his specialty he has been very successful and is obtaining a wide reputation.
In 1871-72 he went abroad and traveled extensively through a large part of Europe, visiting and studying in the leading hospitals of the principal cities.
He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- ciety, which he joined in 1852. In this society he lias been censor and councilor. He became a member of the American Medical Association in 1874.
Dr. Jones married Miss Minerva P. Tyler in 1853. She died in 1858.
In 1860 he married Josephine D. Bullard. She died in 1871. In 1877 he married Miss E. N. Stuart.
HENRY MARTYN FIELD, M.D., son of Deacon John Field, was born in Brighton, Massachusetts, October 3, 1837, in what is known as the "Old Worcester House," which was built about the year 1685.
His mother was Miss Sarah Elliott Worcester, a lineal descendant from Noah Worcester, LL.D., the great lexicagrapher. She died about two years after Henry was born, leaving an infant brother, John Worcester Field.
In early childhood be was a nervous, puny, deli- cate child, and even when he reached mature man- hood was never strong and robust, although he has
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accomplished a vast amount of professional work. His early education was obtained in Chauncy Hall School, Boston, and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
He entered Harvard College in 1855, and gradu- ated with honor in 1859, having the part of orator at commencement. During his years of study in col- lege he had a strong predilection for the medical pro- fession.
After his graduation he went to New York, and made his home with the eminent and celebrated Dr. E. R. Peaslee, and commenced the study of medicine. Dr. Peaslee was at that time Professor of Diseases of Women in Dartmouth Medical College, Hanover, N .. H. Dr. Field accompanied him to Dartmouth that autumn, and on his return took a full course of lec- tures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York City. During his course of study he held a position of considerable importance in the Dewitt Dispensary.
He was valedictorian of his class when he gradu- ated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the spring of 1862.
He immediately opened an office at No. 77 Lexing- ton Avenue, in New York City, and entered into practice. Soon after he was mustered into the United States Army as assistant surgeon, and was sent to Hilton Head. There he contracted malaria and was transferred to the hospital at Beaufort, S. C. He has never entirely recovered, and at times still suffers se- verely. Soon after he returned home, and remained several months till somewhat improved, then went to Washington, D. D., and was stationed at Carver Gen- eral Hospital, on Fifteenth Streeet, for about one year. In October, 1863, he resigned and came to his father's home in West Cambridge (now Arlington), Mass.
October 20, 1863, he married Miss Lydia Morgie Peck, daughter of Abel G. Peck, Esq., of West Cam- bridge, and sieter of the wife of Gov. J. Q. A. Brack- ett. Soon after his marriage he removed to New York, and entered into practice with his friend, Dr. Peaslee.
In the spring of 1867 he left New York, and settled in Newton, Mass. Here he had a large and remun- erative practice till his health, which was never strong, became so much impaired he was compelled to abandon it for a time, and seek the climate of Southern California for the winter of 1887-88. On his return, the following summer, he was given an enthusiastic public reception by his numerous friends. The following year and a half he remained at home, and attended to a part of his practice, but again breaking down, he was compelled to return to Cali- fornia for the winter of 1888-90. He owns a small ranch at Passedena, where he made his home during his stay. He returned to New England the following summer, still very much broken in health.
In 1869 he was offered and accepted the chair of
Materia Medica and Therapeutics in Dartmouth Med- ical College, which professorship he still holds.
Dr. Field published, in 1887, a work on " Cathart- ics and Emetics," which was well received by the medical profession. Beside that, he has published numerous addresses and monographs on various sub- jects, the most noted of which were those on sulpho- nal, which have attracted much favorable notice in the medical journals.
He was admitted a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1867. For several years he was one of the censors in that society. He is a member of the Gynæcological Society of Boston,-was one of the original founders-for six years was secretary, and afterwards was president for one year. On ac- count of ill health he was obliged to decline a second term. He is one of the Medical Board connected with the Newton Cottage Hospital, and also holds the office of consulting physician in diseases of women. He was one of the original members of the Newton Natural History Society, and has delivered before it many able and interesting papers on scientific sub- jects.
Dr. Field has always been a profound student and he is one of the most scholarly men in the medical profession in New England.
In practice he was noted for his skill and assiduous care of his patients, easily winning and holding their confidence and esteem to a remarkable degree.
JESSE F. FRISBIE, M.D., son of Captain Jesse Frisbie, of Kittery, Me., was born in Rochester, N. H., July 12, 1838. For a time he was a student at Phillips Exeter Academy, N. H. He tanght Gram- mar and High Schools in Maine and New Hampshire for several years, aud then commenced his medical studies with his uncle, Dr. J. H. York, a prominent and successful physician of Boston, Mass., in 1858, and graduated from the Harvard Medical College in 1861.
A little more than one year he practiced medicine in Framingham Centre, Mass., and entered the United States Navy in December, 1862. He served in the Potomac Flotilla and afterwards in the East Gulf Blockading Squadron. While in service on the Potomac he contracted malaria, and in the Gulf of Mexico he was prostrated with bilious remittent fever and placed in the hospital at Key West, Fla. He left the navy in January, 1864, on account of ill health.
May, 1864, he entered the United States Army and served in Fairfax Seminary Hospital, near Alexan- dria, Va .; Carver General Hospital, Washington, D. C., and for nearly a year was in charge of Wisewell Barracks Hospital, in Washington, D. C.
He practiced medicine in Woburn and Boston and settled in Newton, Mass., in October, 1872, where he now resides.
Dr. Frisbie was a member of the Newton City gov- erument in 1883, and a member of the Newton Board
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of Health from 1886 to 1890, when he resigned. He has served on the staff of the Newton College Ilos- pital from its opening every year.
He early became interested in Natural Science, and while in the United States service made large collections, especially of Tertiary Fossils, for the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. In 1863 he was placed in charge of a scientific expedition for the investigation of the Tertiary formation in parts of Virginia and Maryland. In 1865 he was urged to go to New Mexico for two years for the purpose of study- ing the Zuni Indians and other tribes, and the Cliff- dwellings and other evidences of pre-historic races and habitations, in the interest of the Smithsonian Institution. Owing to ill health he was obliged to decline what to him was a most attractive field of in- vestigation. It was the work afterwards accomplished by Lieutenant Cushing. Through his influence the Newton Natural History Society was formed and he was president of it for the first seven years. He is a lecturer on Geology and Archeology and has pub- lished many papers and monographs on these sub- jects.
He was admitted a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1865, American Medical Associa- tion in 1880, Gynæcological Society of Boston in 1880. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and other medical and sci- entific societies in the State and elsewhere.
Dr. Frisbie was married, iu November, 1866, to Harriet M. Dunlap, daughter of General Richard T. Dunlap, of Brunswick, Maine.
He is a member of Charles Ward Post, No. 62, G. A. R.
EDWARD A. WHISTON, M.D., son of Francis C. Whiston, was born at Roxbury (now Boston High- lands), Massachusetts, October 19, 1838. His early education was obtained at the Brimmer School, Bos- ton, and Framingham High School. He graduated from the Harvard Medical College in 1861. Dr. Whiston has a brilliant war record extending over a period of three years. He was appointed as-istant surgeon of the Sixteenth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, August 1, 1861, and was connected with that regiment till March 5, 1863, when he was pro- moted to surgeon and transferred to the First Massa- chusetts Volunteer Infantry. He left the service May 28, 1864. After the expiration of this term of ser- vice in the army he was appointed acting surgeon of Board of Enrollment at Greenfield, Massachusetts, and United States inspector of camps of Veteran Reserve Corps.
For two years, during 1865-66, he was resident physician to the Boston City Institutions on Deer Is- land, Boston Harbor, and also port physician.
He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Newton Cottage Hospital since its organization, .January 4, 1881, and secretary of the corporation since January 16, 1882.
For many years he was a member of the Massachu- setts Medical Society. He gave up practice of med- icine in 1868 and went into mercantile life. Has been for the past ten years business manager of the Massa- chusetts New Church Union, Boston ; is treasurer of the New Church Theological School at Cambridge, and of the New Church Board of Missions.
Ile was married, October 13, 1870, to Miss Emily Payson Call.
HENRY B. STODDARD, M.D., son of William II. Stoddard, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, September 28, 1840.
He was educated in private schools, in Northamp- ton, Brookfield and Longmeadow, and then entered Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, from which he gradnated in 1862.
In 1863 he served as volunteer medical cadet at the military hospital, Newark, New Jersey.
From October, 1866, to May, 1868, he served as interne in Bellevue Hospital, New York. He grad- uated from Bellevue Medical College in 1865.
After graduation he settled in Northampton, Mass- achusetts, and practiced there from May, 1868, to November 1, 1878, when he removed to Newtonville, Massachusets, where he has since resided.
He became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1868, and is also a member of the Gynæco- logical Society of Boston. He has served on the staff of Newton Cottage Hospital.
June 30, 1880, he married Miss Jeannie A. Oakes, of Newtonville, Massachusetts.
JAMES H. BODGE, M.D., son of Noah Bodge, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1840. He was edu- cated in the Boston Latin School, Dartmouth and Harvard Colleges. He graduated from Harvard Med- ical College in 1867. He settled in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, in 1874. He was appointed on the staff of the Newton Cottage Hospital in 1888. He also had an appointment as coroner for Middlesex Connty. He joined the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1867. In 1875 he married Miss Florence Brown.
WILLIAM HARTWELL HILDRETH, M.D., son of John C. Ilildreth, was born in New Ipswich, N. II., April 19, 1843. He was educated at the New Ipswich Appleton Academy. In 1864 enlisted in the Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and re- mained with the regiment till the close of the war iu 1865.
He graduated at the Dartmouth Medical College, Hanover, N. H., in 1869, and then located in Fitch- burg, Mass., in 1870. Removed to Newton Upper Falls in 1874. He served five years in the Massachu- setts State Militia as assistant surgeon, and surgeon of the Tenth Regiment of Infantry. He went abroad in 1888, traveling in England, France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. He was married to Miss Helen Josephene Flagg, of New Ipswich, N. H., in 1869. He became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1870.
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FRANCIS E. PORTER, M.D., son of Edward F. Porter, was born in Scituate, Mass., August 28, 1844. He was educated at Wesleyan University, and studied medicine in the Harvard Medical School. He gradu- ated from the Harvard Medical College, and then went abroad for a time, traveling through England, Germany and Italy. On his return he settled at Auburndale, Mass., in October, 1875, where he now resides and practices medicine.
From time to time, articles from his pen have been published in the Medical Record of New York, and the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
He was admitted a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1877. IIe is on the medical and surgical staff of the Newton Cottage Hospital. In 1875 he was married to Miss Christian W. Taylor.
HERMAN F. TITUS, M.D., son of Moses Titns, was born in Pepperell, Mass., in 1852. He was educated at Lawrence Academy and Colgate University. He first studied theology and was settled as Baptist min- ister in Ithaca, N. Y., and Newton, Mass. He gradu- ated from Harvard Medical College in 1890, and now practices in Newton. He has fine scientific attain- ments, and is an expert botanist.
WILLIAM OTIS HUNT, M.D., son of Otis E. Hunt, M.D., and C. E. Hunt, was born in Weston, Mass., May 28, 1854.
He was educated in the public schools of Weston and Waltham, one year at Phillips Academy, An- dover, one year special course at Harvard University and three years at Harvard Medical School. He also studied medicine one year in Vienna and eight months in London ; a part of the time he was house- surgeon in London Hospital.
He graduated from Harvard Medical College in 1878. He practiced medicine one year (1878 to 1879) in Waltham, Mass., and then went to Europe for two years, for the purpose of study. In May, 1881, he settled in Newtonville, where he still is in practice.
He is visiting physician on the staff, and consult- ing surgeon at the Newton Cottage Hospital. He became a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- ciety in 1878. He is a member of the Gynæcological Society of Boston. January 29, 1879, he married Miss Mary F. M. Gibbs, of Waltham, Mass. His wife died August 15, 1887, leaving two children, Harold O. and Richard F. Hunt.
EDWARD BIGELOW HITCHCOCK, M.D., D.M.D., son of David R. Hitchcock, M.D., was horn in New- ton, Mass., February 5, 1854.
After studying in the Newton High School, he went to Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and there graduated in 1873. He graduated from the Harvard Dental School in 1877, and the Dartmouth Medical College in 1878.
He settled in Boston in 1877 and removed to New- ton in 1882. He has never practiced medicine, but is widely known as a skillful dentist.
He has been president of the Harvard Odontologi- 10-iii
cal Society, president of the Massachusetts Dental Society, corresponding secretary of the American Academy of Dental Science. Ile has written several valuable papers which have been published in dif- ferent magazines. Ile was married in 1885 to Miss Lillie B. Comstock.
CHARLES HENRY BURR, M.D., son of Henry W. Burr, was born in Colchester, Conn., July 19, 1855.
He was educated in Boston Public Schools, Law- rence Scientific School, Harvard University and Har- vard Medical School. He received the degree of S.B. in 1879, and M.D. from Harvard Medical College in 1882. He was house officer of the Carney Hospital, South Boston, in 1882-83. He practiced a short time in South Framingham and then in Roxbury till 1887. Since that time he has attended exclusively to medical examinations for various insurance asso- ciations. He was elected supreme medical examiner of the New England Order of Protection, November 12, 1887, and still holds that position.
He has served two years as assistant surgeon of the First Battalion Light Artillery, M. V. M.
He was admitted a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1883.
While a student in the Lawrence Scientific School he published " Plans of the Doric Temple." In 1887 he married Miss Eva Stevens, of South Framingham. He resides at Newton Highlands.
ROBERT P. LORING, M.D., son of Joshua Loring, was born in Chelsea, Mass., February 18, 1852. He was educated at Chauncy Hall School, Boston, Mass .; Brookline High School, Institute Technology, Boston. He graduated at Harvard Medical College in 1875, and joined the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1876. He settled in Newton Centre, Mass., in 1876. After practicing medicine there for awhile he went West and spent three years. While there he received the appointment of assistant surgeon Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, at Kansas City, Mo., and Professor of Physiology in Kansas City Medical College. On his return East he again settled in Newton Centre, where he continues to reside and practice medicine. He is a member of the medical board, a member of the medical staff and one of the consulting surgeons at the Newton Cottage Hospital. Dr. Loring married Miss Adelaide L. Nason, of Ken- nebunk, Me.
DAVID E. BAKER, M.D., son of Erastus E. Baker, was born in Franklin, Norfolk County, Mass., March 30, 1857. Educated in the Grammar and High Schools of Franklin, and in 1878 received the degree of BS. from the Boston University. In his boyhood he was a farmer; after his graduation he was a teacher for a time.
He entered Harvard Medical School in 1879; Bos- ton City Hospital as house surgeon in 1882-83. Re- ceived his degree of M.D. from Harvard University in 1883.
He settled in Newton Lower Falls in December,
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1883, succeeding Dr. F. D. Lord. He remained there in practice till the summer of 1890, when he removed to Newtonville.
In 1886-88 he served on the staff of the Newton Cottage Hospital.
He was elected a member of the School Board for the years of 1887, '88, '89 and '90, and was elected chairman of the board in September, 1890; a director of Newton Associated Charities, 1889-90 ; member of the Newton Board of Health, 1890. He is a member of the Newton Natural History Society, Newton Civil Service Reform Club. Boston City Hospital Club, Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health, etc. He was admitted a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1883.
He went to Europe in 1888, and spent a year in travel and study in Berlin and Vienna. Some of his papers have been published in the medical journals.
Oct. 21, 1885, he married Miss Harriet E. Lord, daughter of Dr. F. D. Lord, of Newton Lower Falls.
PHILIP VINCENT, M.D., son of Philip Vincent, M.D., was born at Camborne, County of Cornwall, England, on Feb. 7, 1858. He is a descendant of a line of doctors. In early life he spent six years at the Royal Medical College, Epsom, County Surrey, England. After continuing his studies in the Royal Medical College and Royal College of Surgeons, Lon- don, he spent four years in the London University College and Hospitals, and there took his degree M. R.C.S. (Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons, England). The next year, at Edinburgh, Scotland, he received the degrees, L.R.C.P. and L.M. (Licen- tiate of the Royal College of Physicians and Licen- tiate of Midwifery).
He entered into practice in England for a time, then was appointed surgeon on several steamships of the Great Western and Cunard Companies' lines.
Retiring from service, on the vessels he came to America and settled in Boston in 1884. In 1886 he removed to Newton, where he continued to practice medicine till July, 1890, when he moved to Waltham.
Dr. Vincent has held the position of ophthalmic house surgeon at University College Hospital under the celebrated Wharton Jones. He is a member of the London University College Medical Society. He has published articles on sea-sickness in the British medical journals.
WILLIAM HENRY MCOWEN, M.D., son of Timo- thy McOwen, was born in Lowell, Mass., March 5, 1860. His early education was obtained at the Grammar and High School -. He graduated from Ilarvard Medical College and settled in Lowell in July, 1883. He removed to Newton Upper Falls in July, 1885, where he now resides and practices medi- cine. He has been city physician of Lowell and also on the staff of Lowell City Free Dispensary. He is medical examiner for various life insurance com- panies in the State and elsewhere.
On June 30, 1888, he was married to Miss Ellen
Theresa Daly, of Newton, Mass. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
FRANCIS M. O'DONNELL, M.D., son of James O'Donnell, was born in Marlboro', Mass., April 9, 1863. His early education was obtained in the Gram- mar and High Schools. He afterwards entered Bos- ton College, from which, in 1882, he received the de- gree of A.B. and in 1887 the degree of A.M.
In 1882 he entered the Harvard Medical School, and from Harvard Medical College received bis de- gree of M.D. He settled in Newton in 1885; became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1887. He married Miss Rose A. Harkins, of Newton, July 2, 1888.
D. WALDO STEARNS, M.D., son of Daniel Stearns, was born in Newton, Mass., November 12, 1864. He was educated in the Newton Grammar and High Schools, and then entered Harvard College. He en- tered the Harvard Medical School in 1883 and grad- uated from Harvard Medical College in 1887. The following year he was resident physician at the Lynn (Mass.) City Hospital. Then he went to Europe. He spent some time studying at Guy's Hospital, London, and continued his medical studies in the schools and hospitals of Paris. He returned to the United States and settled on Watertown Street, Newton, in 1889, in what has been the family homestead for five genera- tions. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1889. He is a member of the Newton Natural History Society.
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