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Dr. Jonathan Page came to Brunswick in 1795, and commenced the practice of medicine in 1800. His practice soon became extensive, and continued increasingly so until his death, in 1842. lle held a highly respectable rank in his profession. ITis residence was for many years in the house just south of the Mason Street church.
Dr. Isaac Lincoln moved to Brunswick from Topsham in 1820. Ile enjoyed a very extensive practice until a short time before his death, in 1868. Ile held a high rank in his profession. He was a graduate of Harvard College. 1800, and is supposed to have been the first physician in Brunswick who had received a collegiate education.
John D. Lincoln, son of Dr. Isaac Lincoln, was a gradu- ate of Bowdoin College, class of 1843, and of the Medical School of Maine, class of 1846. He practiced in Bruns- wick from 1846 till within a few weeks of his death, in 1877. He was a most excellent physician, and his practice extended into many of the neighboring towns, and even to more remote portions of the State.
Other physicians in Brunswick, for a short time only.
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have been J. D. Wells, 1829. Cushman, 1836; J. K. Shaw, 1857; T. S. Foster, 1864; J. B. Soto, 1871 to 1873.
Of those now residing in Brunswick, Asher Ellis com- menced practice in Brunswick in 1842, Nathaniel T. Pal- mer in 1845, Alfred Mitchell in 1865. and Daniel F. Ellis in 1866.
Although the town of Harpswell has been unable to dis- pense entirely with the services of physicians, yet it has done so to a great extent. There have been but four phy- sicians located in the town, and, with one exception, they remained but a few years. The practice in the town has been mainly carried on by Brunswick doctors. Prior to 1840 a Dr. Norton resided in the town for several years. lle was succeeded about 1843 by a Dr. Bliss. In 1850, or thereabouts, Dr. Dailey settled in this town, and has re- mained to the present time. In 1870, Dr. J. B. Soto set- tled here, but remained but one year, when he removed to Brunswick, where he died.
Dr. Gilbert Winslow began practice in North Yarmouth in 1743, and continued till his death, Jan. 9, 1777. He was a son of Gilbert and Merey (Snow) Winslow, born July 26, 1704, and married Patience, daughter of' Elder Samuel and Abigail Seabury.
Dr. John Bartlett practiced medicine at North Yarmouth from about 17.17 till 1758, at which latter date he removed to Lebanon, Conn. He came from Duxbury, Mass., and married Susannah, daughter of Deacon Jedediah and Han- nah (Seales) Southworth.
William Chase was another physician of North Yarmouth. Ile commenced practice in that town in 1760, and continued till his death, July 22, 1798, at the age of sixty-two.
Edward Russell, M.D., sou of Jeremiah Russell, was born in Cambridge, Mass .; graduated at Harvard, 1750; married Hannah, daughter of Parker and Lydia (Phillips) Clark, July 23, 1767 ; commenced practice in North Yar- mouth in 1765, and practiced till his death, April 19, 1785.
Ammi-Ruhamah Mitchell, son of llon. David and Lu- cretia (Loring) Mitchell, boru May 8, 1762; served ten years in the Massachusetts Legislature, and was elected Sen- ator in 1808. Dr. Mitchell was very successful in his practice ; married Phebe, daughter of Capt. William Cut- ter ; was killed by being thrown from his carriage while on his way to visit a patient, May 14, 1824. Hlad by his wife Phebe a family of twelve children.
Dr. Raynes, Dr. William Chase, and Dr. David Jones were physicians at North Yarmouth; Dr. Chase from 1760 till July 22, 1798, when he died, aged sixty-two; and Dr. Jones ( from Abington, Mass. ) from 1785 till his death, May 1-1, 1824. aged sixty-two. Another of the early phy- sicians of the same town was William Parsons, from tilouces- ter, Mass.
Dr. Elias Banks, grandfather of Dr. Charles E. Banks, of Portland, practiced in North Yarmouth from 1801 to 1511. Hle was a son of Lieut. Moses and Phebe ( Curtis ) Banks, born in Scarborough, Me., Sept. 11, 1774, and married Imeretia, daughter of David and Elizabeth ( Oakes ) Prince. Dr. Banks at a later day practiced in Danville, Me., and afterwards in Portland, where he died Feb. 9, 1841. He was a member of the old Maine Medical Society. Dr. Daniel Clark, from Connecticut, practiced in Var-
mouth from about 1810 to 1821, when he removed to Thomaston, Me.
Dr. Gad Hitchcock, a native of Pembroke, Mass., also practiced in Yarmouth from 1810 to date of his death, Nov. 17, 1837. He died at the age of forty-nine. Dr. William B. Gooch removed from this town, where he had practiced, in 1811. Among the successful practitioners here were also Dr. Amos and Dr. William B. Osgood. Dr. Amos Osgood came to the town from Fryeburg.
Dr. Ebenezer Burbank, born 1794, married Sophronia, daughter of Wentworth and Mary (Pottle) Ricker, of Poland, Me .; practiced in Yarmouth thirty-seven years ; died March, 1867, aged seventy-three years. His only son, Augustus H. Burbank, M.D., now in active practice in Yarmouth, is a graduate of Harvard Medical College. lle married for his first wife Elizabeth R. Banks, daughter of Dr. Elias and Lucretia ( Prince) Banks, who died in 1870. llis second wife was Miss Thompson, of Yarmouth.
Other physicians of Yarmouth have been Dr. Lewis Whituey, who died May, 1857; Dr. Greene, died 1814; Drs. Barston, Loring, Thompson, Ilarvey, Clark, and Har- low ; and Dr. Samuel W. Blanchard, who died iu 1857, aged thirty-nine.
Dr. James Bates was an old and popular physician in Yarmouth. lle was the father of the present Dr. James M. Bates, who was a surgeon in the army during the late Rebellion, and is now in active practice in Varmouth. The other physicians at present practicing in the town are Dr. W. W. Thomas and Dr. Richard Maee.
Dr. Jacob Mitchell was a physician in Cumberland in 1832. He was a son of Deacon Jacob and Phebe ( Buxton) Mitchell, and married Statira, daughter of Capt. Solomon L. Blanchard, Dee. 18, 1831.
NOTE .- John Holman, son of John and Ann Holman, of Dorches- ter, born Feb. 23, 1638, is supposed to have been a physician and surgeon. The York court records, 16st, mention an inquest on the body of Nathan Bedford "attended by Mr. Holman, a chyergeon." This was probably the above John Holman, who lived on Maine's Point at the time of the first settlement.
MAINE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
Agreeably to a call addressed to a portion of the medical profession of Maine, a meeting to secure a permanent or- ganization of its members throughout the State was held at the Tontine Hotel in Brunswick, April 28, 1853. Dr. James McKeen, of Topsham, was chosen chairman, and Dr. John D. Lincoln, of Brunswick, secretary. The fol- lowing-named gentlemen were appointed a committee to prepare articles of organization, viz. : Drs. Ilill, Briggs, G. S. Palmer, Libby, Fuller, Gareelon, and Benson, who re- ported a constitution and by-laws which were adopted by the association and remained in force till they were super- seded by the present revised constitution and by-laws The
members named in the original organization were Isaac Lincoln, James McKeen, Amos Nourse, Cyrus Briggs, T. G. Stockbridge, 11. 11. Hill, Israel Putnam, Andrew J. Fuller, John Benson, Nathaniel T. Palmer, C. W. Whit- more, G. S. Palmer, Ashur Ellis, John Mathews, Joseph W. Ellis, Cyrus Kendrick, Jr., George E. Brickett, John D. Lincoln, Alonzo Garcelon, J. W. Toward, R. W. Law- sou, Abial Libby, J. F. Stanley, N. R. Boutelle, John
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Hartwell, Stephen Whitmore, and Richard P. Jenness, with such other gentlemen as may hereafter be admitted by the majority of members present at an annual meeting.
The association was incorporated by the following act of the Legislature ( Chap. 492), approved March 13, 1855 :
" An Act to Incorporate the Maine Medical Association.
"Be it enaeted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows :
"SECTION 1. Il. II. Hill, John Benson, John D. Lincoln, Gilman Daveis, Joseph W. Ellis, John Hubbard, James McKeen, Alonzo Garcelon, II. L. K. Wiggin, John Cook, Sylvester Oakes, N. (. Har- ris, Aleander Burbank, William Kilbourne, J. P. Fessenden, P. Dyer, Edmond R. Russell, Isaae Lincoln, John T. Gilman, and others, who may be elected agreeably to the rules and by-laws hereafter to be es- tablished, are hereby created a body politic by the name of the Maine Medical Association, with power to sue and be sued, to have a common seal and to change the same, to make any by-laws not repugnant to the laws of this State, and to take and to hold any real or personal estate to the value of fifty thousand dollars : and to give, grant, bar- gain, sell, and convey the same. The use and income of said estates to be expended and appropriated to uses consistent with the objects of said Association, and as the members thereof shall direct.
"SEC. 2. The members of said Association may elect a President, Vice-President, Sveretary, Treasurer, and such other officers as they may judge necessary and convenient, determine their respective duties, and limit the term of their offices, and fill any vacancies therein ; and the President and such other officers as they may dircet, is hereby authorized to administer to the officers oaths, binding them to the faithful and impartial discharge of the duties of their several offices.
"SEC. 3. At any annual meeting, and at no other, the members of the Association may duly elect any suitable person a member of said Association : provided, that no person shall be so elected who has not received the degree of doetor in medicine from some medical in- stitution duly authorized to confer the same, nor unless he shall have passed a successful examination, and he approved by the censors of this Association as a suitable person and properly qualified to become a member thereof.
"SEC. 4. At the first meeting of said Association, and at every annual meeting thereafter, it shall be the duty of the Association to choose sncb number of censors or examiners as they shall deem proper and necessary for the examination of candidates for election, and every candidate examined, approved, and elected, shall be entitled to receive letters testimonial, which the Association is hereby authorized and empowered to eonfer, in accordance with its by-laws and consti- tution.
" SEC. 5. Prior to the adjournment of the first meeting, and of each succeeding meeting, the time and place of holding the next suc- cceding meeting shall be designated, and when the Association docs adjourn, it shall adjourn accordingly.
"SEC. 6. The first meeting of said Association shall be held in Belfast, in the County of Waldo, on the first Wednesday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, at ten of the clock in the forenoon.
"SEC. 7. This Association shall have power to institute local County Societies in any part of this State, when they may be satisfied the science and practice of Medicine and Surgery will be benefited and elevated thereby, and to annul the same when a majority of the members present at any annual meeting shall deem its beneficial in- fluence to have ceased."
List of Members .- The following list contains only the names of those members of the Maine Medical Association who have been resident physicians in Cumberland County, with the place of residence of each, and the date of mem- bership placed before each year's list :
1853 .- Isaae Lincoln,* Brunswick ; S. H. Tewksbury, Portland ; Joel Houghton, Portland ; Israel T. Dana, l'ort- land; Sumner B. Chase, Portland ; John T. Gilman, Port- land ; William C. Robinson,* Portland ; Gilman Daveis,*
Portland ; A. H. Burbank, Yarmouth; William Marrett,* Saccarappa ; John D. Lincoln,* Brunswick ; Ebenezer Wells, Freeport.
1854 .- Samuel W. Blanchard,* Yarmonth ; William Wood, Portland; Chas. S. D. Fessenden, Portland; O. E. Durgin, Portland ; John C. Plumer, Portland ; Richard P. Jenness, Saccarappa ; L. ('linton Gilson, Portland ; E. P. Le Prohon, Portland ; E. Parsons,* Portland; Alexander Par- sons, Portland; Charles II. Osgood, Portland ; J. F. Durgin, Portland; Charles W. Thomas, * Portland ; John E. Dun- nell,* Harrison ; Henry T. Cummings, Portland.
1857 .- Simon Fitch. Portland ; John E. Shaw, Bruns- wiek ; D. O. Perry,* Portland.
1858 .- George H. Nichols, Standish ; William Osgood, North Yarmouth ; Seth C. Gordon, Gorham ; John Buzzell, Cape Elizabeth ; George II. Chadwick, Portland ; Thomas HT. Breslin,* Portland ; W. R. Richardson, Portland; Wil- liam Wescott,* Standish; E. Stone, Westbrook ; Thomas HI. Merrill,* Portland ; R. W. Cummings, Portland.
1859 .- C. IT. Burbank, Portland.
1863 .- Josiah T. Day, Jr., Portland ; George L. Good- ale, Portland ; Horace C. White, Harpswell ; Nathaniel Shannon, Cape Elizabeth ; Charles Hntehenson, Gray ; J. P. Webb, Bridgton ; G. L. Kilgore, Windham ; L. W. Houghton,* Portland ; B. F. Fogg,* Portland.
1864 .- A. S. Thayer, Portland ; S. E. Sylvester, Portland. 1865 .- Alfred Mitchell, Brunswiek ; George E. Webber. Portland ; Benjamin F. Sturgis, New Gloucester; Gardner Ludwig, Portland ; William B. Cobb, Standish ; A. M. Parker, Westbrook ; J. Addison Parsons, Windham ; Edwin H. Vosc, Gorham ; Thomas F. Perley, Portland ; J. D. Nutting, Otisfield.
1866 .- P. Wadsworth, Jr., Portland; B. T. Sauborn. Standish ; H. N. Small, Portland; Alden T. Keen, Gorham ; John De Laski, Falmouth ; S. P. Getchell, Raymond ; George F. Freneh, Portland ; Ira C. Sawyer, Naples ; . A. O. Shaw, Portland ; Daniel F. Ellis, Brunswick ; S. C. Ilaw- kins,* Portland.
1867 .- Henry P. Merrill, Portland ; Eaton S. Ilatch, Portland ; F. S. Hall,* Caseo; J. W. Lowell, Ferry Village ; Henry H. Hunt, Gorham ; Henry I. Jordan,* Westbrook ; Frank Carter, Portland ; C. A. Robbins. Brunswick ; Nel- son II. Carey, Gorham.
1868 .- Joseph Sturtevant, Scarborough ; Charles O. Hunt, Portland ; Albion Cobb. Webb's Mills; James G. Sturgis, Standish.
1869 .- Frederic Henry Gerrish, Portland ; Charles E. Webster, Portland; J. J. Sturgis, Windham ; J. L. Ben- nett, Bridgton ; ('harles It. Reynolds,* Gorham.
1870 .- B. B. Foster, Portland ; S. 11. Weeks, Portland ; Eugene W. Brooks, Portland ; F. A. Stanley, Portland.
1871 .- A. Q. Marshall, New Gloucester; B. F. Dunu, Windham ; Frank E. Hitchcock, Portland ; Reuben D. Small, Portland.
1872 .- Rotheus A. Gray, Saccarappa ; A. P. Topliff, Gorham ; J. B. Soto,# Brunswick.
1873 .- D. Il. Dole, Cape Elizabeth ; C. W. Stockman, Portland ; Charles A. Ring, Portland.
1874 .- Milton W. Ilall, Cumberland; A. Lewis Gau- bert, Portland ; Charles W. Bray, Portland ; D. M. Tolford,
# Deceased.
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Portland ; George W. Jones, Portland ; James A. Spalding, Portland ; J. 1. Horr, Cumberland Mills ; Erastus E. Holt, Portland; Egbert T. Andrews, Gray.
1875 .- Fred. Quinby, Deering ; J. F. Newman, Gray.
1876 .- W. G. Frost, Portland ; Abraham G. Wendell, Portland ; William A. Wheeler, Portland ; George W. Libby, Saccarappa ; Arthur S. Bird, Portland ; John G. Pierce, Freeport.
1879 .- Augustus P. Dudley, Portland; Isaac W. Star- bird, Portland.
Officers and Delegates .- The following resident physi- cians of Cumberland County have been presidents of the Maine Medical Association : Isaae Lincoln, Brunswick, 1853; Gilman Daveis, Portland, 1857; J. T. Gilman, Portland, 1863; S. II. Tewksbury, Portland, 1866; Israel T. Dana, Portland, 1868; J. M. Bates, Yarmouth, 1875.
Vice-Presidents: John T. Gilman, 1853; J. D. Lincoln, 1859; S. II. Tewksbury, 1864; Charles W. Thomas, 1865; 1. M. Bates, 1869; E. Stone, 1871; George F. French, 1873; William Osgood, 1877.
Treasurers: Gilman Daveis, 1854; J. D. Lincoln, 1857; Thomas A. Foster, 1864-78; A. S. Thayer, 1878.
Corresponding Secretaries: John D. Lincoln, Brunswick, 1854; Gilman Daveis, Portland, 1855; W. C. Robinson, Portland, 1859; S. 11. Tewksbury, Portland, 1860; G. Il. Chadwick, Portland, 1861 ; J. D. Lincoln, Brunswick, 1863; J. M. Bates, Yarmouth, 1865; A. 11. Burbank, Yarmouth, 1866; S. H. Weeks, Portland, 1870-78.
Recording Secretaries: A. H. Burbank, Yarmouth, 1857; ( Il. Chadwick. Portland, 1860; Thomas A. Foster, Port- land. 1862; George L. Goodale, Portland, 1863-66; E. O. Vose, Gorham, 1866-68; Charles O. Hunt, Portland, 1868-78.
Members of Standing Committee :* Composed of one member from each county for each year. The following have served from this county: William Marrett, 1854; John D. Lincoln, 1855; S. II. Tewksbury, 1856; O. E. Durgin, 1857; A. 11. Burbank, 1858-60; S. C. Gordon, 1860; Israel T. Dana, 1861; W. C. Robinson, 1862; C. W. Thomas, 1863-65; S. II. Tewksbury, 1865; G. H. Chadwick, 1866-68; S. H. Weeks, 1868; II. N. Small, 1869-71; S. C. Gordon, 1871; H. H. Hunt, 1872; S. II. Weeks, 1873.
Members of Board of Censors: Israel T. Dana, 1874; A. S. Thayer, 1875-77; Frederic Henry Gerrish, 1877-78; Il. II. Hunt, 1878.
Members of Committee on Publication : Charles O. Hunt, by virtue of his office as recording secretary, 1868-79 ; II. N. Small, John Buzzell, William B. Cobb, 1874; S. C. Gordon, F. Il. Gerrish, 1875; G. F. French, William Os- good, 1876; S. II. Weeks, C. II. Bray, 1877; A. II. Bur- bank. G. F. French, C. W. Bray, 1878.
Business Committee : John D. Lincoln, 1876; N. A. Hersom 1877; S. C. Gordon, William Osgood, 1878.
Delegates to Medical Societies .- New Hampshire Medi- cal Society : A. S. Thayer, 1874; L. Ingalls, 1878.
Rhode Island Medical Society : S. H. Weeks, 1874; C. E. Webster, 1877.
New York Medical Society : J. M. Bates, 1874; S. C. Gordon, 11. N. Small, 1875 ; Israel T. Dana, C. O. Files. W. G. Frost, 1877.
Canadian Medical Society : N. H. Tewksbury, 1874-76 ; W. W. Greene, G. Ludwig, 1877 ; G. F. French, 1878.
Vermont Medical Society: N. A. Hersom, William B. Cobb, 1875; S. H. Weeks, 1876; William B. Cobb, 1877.
Pennsylvania Medical Society: Israel T. Dana, 1875; S. C. Gordon, C. O. Hunt, 1877; William Osgood, 1878. Medical School of Maine: T. A. Foster, 1875.
Massachusetts Medical Society: Israel T. Dana, 1876; S. II. Weeks, 1877; Israel T. Dana, S. C. Gordon, 1878. Connecticut Medical Society ; N. A. Hersom, 1876; C. S. D. Fessenden, E. E. Holt, 1877 ; C. E. Webster, 1878. New Jersey Medical Society: J. M. Bates, 1876; T. A. Foster, J. M. Bates, 1877.
American Medical Association : William W. Greene, John D. Lincoln, T. A. Foster, A. S. Thayer, 1876; A. S. Thayer, II. N. Small, George F. French, 1877; H. 11. IIunt, 1878.
International Medical Congress : Frederic Henry Gerrish, 1876.
Committee on Maine General Hospital: John T. Gilman, 1874-76.
GEO. FRANKLIN FRENCH, of Portland, Me., was born Oct. 30, 1837, iu Dover, N. H .; he graduated at Har- vard University (A.B., 1859 ; A.M., M.D., 1862) ; served three years as a surgeon in the war of the Rebellion, at the close of which was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for merito- rions service, subsequently declining a commission in the regular army. In 1866 he began the private practice of medicine at Portland, Me., where he continues to reside. He is a member of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, American Public Health Associa- tion, Maine Medical Association, and Cumberland County Medical Association. He was a prominent contributor to the " Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Re- bellion," the author of " The Treatment of Orthopnœa by Mechanical Support," " A New Method of Skin-Grafting," " Opium Antidote Fraud," and the inventor of several use- ful surgical instruments, well known to the profession. He is instructor in practice, and clinical lecturer on diseases of the skin in the " Portland School for Medical Instrue- tion," and was a member of the original staff of the Maine General Hospital. During his service in the army he was in charge of several large hospitals; Surgeon-in-Chief, Ist Division, 15th Army Corps, in " Sherman's March to the Sea," and personal-staff surgeon of Gen. U. S. Grant at Vicksburg. He was married. Oct. 14, 1863. to Clara II., daughter of Dr. Levi G. Hill, of Dover, N. II.
JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN, -- From the time of the first Councilor Gilman, who was born in Hingham, England, in 1624, and settled in Exeter, N. H., about 1648, the political, ecclesiastical, social, and financial history of New Hamp- shire was more influenced by the Gilman family than by any other, for a century and a half at least. Other names, like those of Wentworth, Waldron, Weares, Stark, Langdon, Sullivan, and Scamel, were more prominent for a time, but the Gilmans, though seldom in the highest places, for more than a century, came gradually to the control of affairs,
Changel to Board of Censors, 1573.
John
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which they managed with energy, good sense, and a busi- ness talent that was indispensable, from 1775 till 1816, when Governor Gilman retired from public life.
Nicholas Gilman, grandfather of Dr. Gilman, was born Oct. 21, 1731 ; married Ann, daughter of Rev. John Tay- lor, of Milton, and Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, a descendant of the Pilgrims of Plymouth.
He was treasurer of' the State of New Hampshire from 1775 to 1782, when he was succeeded by his eldest son, John Taylor. He was Continental Loan officer, one of the chief members of the Committee of Safety, and councilor of the State from 1777 to the day of his death, April 7, 1783. His relation to the financial affairs of New Hampshire is said to have been much as that of Robert Morris to those of the nation, and he managed them with the same pru- dence and skill.
John Taylor Gilman was born in 1754, and died in 1828. He was a volunteer in the Revolutionary army ; a delegate from New Hampshire in 1780 to the Hartford Convention ; a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782-83, in the latter year succeeding his father as treasurer of New Hampshire. This office he resigned to become a commis- sioner to settle certain accounts for the States, but was re- elected in 1791. He was Governor of New Hampshire from 1794 to 1805, and again from 1813 to 1815, when he declined a re-election.
Hon. Nicholas Gilman, second son, born Aug. 3, 1755, was a delegate from New Hampshire to the Continental Congress, from 1786 to 1788 ; a member of the convention that framed the constitution, and signed that instrument. After the adoption of the constitution he was elected a Representative in Congress, from 1789 to 1797 ; and was a Senator in Congress from New Hampshire, from 1805 to 1814. He died May 2, 1814.
Col. Nathaniel Gilman, third son, and father of the sub- ject of this sketch, born Nov. 10, 1759, died at Exeter, N. II., Jan. 26, 1847. He first married, Dec. 29, 1785, Abigail, daughter of Rev. Woodbridge Odlin, who was born in 1768, died Aug. 10, 1796; second, Dorothy, daughter of Nathaniel Folsom, of Portsmouth, who was born March 25, 1775, and died Feb. 22, 1859. Ile succeeded his eldest brother, John Taylor, in the treasury department,- Continental Loan Office,-as early as 1783; a member of the State Senate in 1795 and 1802; Representative in 1804; and State Treasurer from 1805 to 1814, inclusive, exclusive of 1809 and 1810. A writer in Exeter says of him, " He was a man too well known in this community, and too universally reverenced and beloved, to need an eulogy."
John Taylor Gilman, son of Col. Nathaniel and Dorothy (Folsom) Gihuan, physician and surgeon of Portland, was born in Exeter, N. Il., May 9, 1806, and was fitted for college at Phillips (Exeter ) Academy ; admitted to Bow- doin College, 1822; entered upon his baccalaureate, 1826; studied medicine in the office of William Perry, M.1) .. Exeter, N. H., and received medical diploma at Bowdoin in 1829 ; for anatomical and clinical instruction passed por- tions of the years 1830-31 in Philadelphia ; commenced the practice of medicine and surgery in Portland, Me., Jan. 1, 1832. He was president of Maine Medical Asso- 16
ciation 1864; overseer and is now a trustee of Bowdoin College. He is also a trustee of Maine Insane Hospital. and president of the board of directors of Maine General Hospital. Of the latter he was one of the founders, and during his connection with it he has given much time and money for its support. Dr. Gilman is characterized in the medical profession for his quickness of perception and power of ready diagnosis of a case, for his skill and success- ful treatment of disease, for his activity and prompt atten- tion when duty requires, and for his ever-gentlemanly hearing towards all. His integrity in his professional duties and his acknowledged ability as a physician and sur- geon have won the confidence of all who know him.
It is a fact worthy of note in the professional career of Dr. Gilman, that he was the first physician of the State of Maine who performed the unusual operation of Cresarian seetion, which he did skillfully and successfully. Dr. Gil- man married, Aug. 24, 1837, Helen A., daughter of Hon. Reuel Williams, a United States Senator, of Augusta. Me.
Mrs. Dr. Gilman is a lady of rare sociability and hospi- tality, and possesses those accomplishments in presiding over her household affairs that grace the sphere of woman and make her home the welcome place for the stranger as well as for the friend.
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