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ALFRED.
A paper by the name of the Columbian Star was pub- lished at Alfred in 1824 by James Dickman, of Augusta, in support of W. H. Crawford for the Presidency. Mr. Dickman was in the printing-office of Joseph Griffin, at Brunswick, from 1820 to 1823, as an apprentice. He died in Boston in 1870.
SPRINGVALE.
The Springvale Reporter, an enterprising weekly sheet, is published at Springvale, York Co., by Cheever & Noyes. It is now in its fifth volume, and has attained a good circulation. " Devoted to local news, interests, and busi- ness." One dollar a year, in advance.
LIMINGTON.
The Maine Recorder, a four-column weekly paper, was published by Artbur M. Baker in 1832. The first num- ber made its appearance May 11th. It was published at one dollar a year. The paper had a high moral tone, and was too literary in its character to receive popular patronage, and therefore ceased to exist. We do not know how long it continued.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
MEDICAL PROFESSION.
Medical Society of Maine-Maine Medical Association-List of Members for York County.
THE first Legislature of Maine, convened May 31, 1820, and the winter succeeding, members of the Massachusetts Medical Society residing in Maine commenced the forma- tion of a medical society, and for this purpose met at the seat of government, Portland, and chose Nathaniel Coffin,
DR. CHARLES TRAFTON was born in Georgetown, Me., Oct. 2, 1787. He received his preliminary ed- ucation in his native town, and in 1808 he com- menced the study of medicine with Dr. J. Gilman, a resident of York, Me., and graduated in Boston in 1811. In April of the same year he entered upon the duties of his profession in North Berwick, at which place he continued in practice until Aug. 5, 1817, when he removed to Sonth Berwick, where he soon had a very lucrative and successful practice, which was continued until he was prostrated by sick- ness, in the autumn of 1854. He bore his protracted illness with Christian patience, and died July 4, 1855.
He married, Oct. 27, 1814, Elizabeth Nowell, who was born in October, 1793, and died Nov. 22, 1843. They liad six children, namely : Alva, born Sept. 30, 1815; died in infancy. Ann, born Ang. 14, 1816. William H., born July 12, 1818. Charles T., born March 9, 1822; for the past twenty-four years a successful physician of South Berwick. An- gusta Elizabeth, born in December, 1824; died in infancy. Augustns E., born Oct. 24, 1827 ; died
July 20, 1852. He married again, Feb. 19, 1845, Abigail D. Guppey, who was born April 19, 1817. In politics, Dr. Trafton was a Jacksonian Democrat, and was one of the Presidential electors that elected Gen. Harrison President.
As a physician he was widely and extensively known, and his medical skill was almost without a parallel in the community in which he lived.
During the winter of 1807 he made profession of religion, and through the remainder of his life honored that profession both by precept and ex- ample. In the February following he united with the Baptist Church, and until the close of his life was an honorable, exemplary, and influential mem- ber of that organization. He was not only one of the earliest members, but was for twenty years previous to his death an officer (deacon) in the church. Few men lived to a better purpose in the church, or died with more friends, than did Dr. Trafton. His hand and heart were ever open to the calls of benevolence, and the church shared largely in his liberality. As a husband and father few had his equal.
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John A. Buy
JOHN A. BERRY, M.D., second son of John, Jr., and Sarah (Downing) Berry, was born in Saco, Me., Sept. 24, 1808. He spent his early life on the farm at home, and received the advantages of a good English and classical education. He studied medi- cine with the late Dr. Green, of Boston, formerly a resident and practicing physician in Saco, and gradu- ated from the medical department of Bowdoin Col- lege Sept. 4, 1833.
He began practice in Saco; after a short time re- moved to Lyman, where he remained until 1836, and returned to Saco, where he continued in the successful practice of his profession until his decease, April 20, 1879.
The same month he graduated he received the ap- pointment from Governor Smith of surgeon's mate of the 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 1st Division, Maine militia.
Dr. Berry was connected with various local insti- tutions. He was a director of the Saco National Bank, president of the Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany at the time of his death, and was for a time president of the Saco & Biddeford Gaslight Com- pany. He was interested in church and school mat- ters, was a member of the Unitarian Church, and
for several years served on the school board. As a physician Dr. Berry was a man of acknowledged ability, and ever had in mind the best interests aud welfare of his patients. He was cautious in adminis- tering to the wants of those needing his services, and bestowed his medical skill alike upon the poor and the rich.
He possessed business ability, prudence and sound judgment in financial matters that gave him rank among the business men of Saco, and added strength to all local institutions with which he was connected.
Dr. Berry was sociable, genial; and favorite among his pleasure-seeking was fishing, in which, and hunting, he spent many leisure hours; and on one occasion, while hunting upon the water, his gun accidentally discharged, the ball nearly severing the main artery of his arm, so injuring its use that he ever afterwards used his left hand to write with.
He married, April 28, 1835, Olivia, daughter of Captain James and Abigail J. (Vaughan) Donnell, of Biddeford. She survives her husband, and also two daughters,-Mrs. Roscoe L. Bowers, of Saco, and Aunie O., wife of Dr. Roscoe G. Dennett, who died July 3, 1877.
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M.D., of Portland, President ; Jonathan Page, M.D., of Brunswick, Vice-President; B. D. Bartlett, M.D., of Bath, Corresponding Secretary; and Jonathan Page, M.D., of Brunswick, Recording Secretary.
The first annual meeting of the society was held in Mas- sachusetts Hall, in Brunswick, on the 4th of September, 1821. At this meeting Luther Carey, M.D., of Turner, was elected President (on the resignation of Dr. Coffin) ; Ariel Mann, M.D., of IIallowell, Vice-President ; B. D. Bartlett, M.D., of Bath, Secretary ; and Jonathan Page, M.D., of Brunswick, Treasurer.
At this meeting a proposition was received from the medical faculty of Bowdoin College for the society to unite with them, by the appointment of a committee to act jointly with the faculty and have an equal voice in the recommend- ing candidates to the college board for the degree of M.D. This liberal proposition on the part of the faculty was ac- cepted by the society, and for many years the latter was represented by its committee at the examination of candi- dates for their medical degree.
An act incorporating the Medical Society of Maine was passed March 8, 1821, and included the names of most of the members of the Massachusetts Medical Society then resident in Maine, with such other members of the profes- sion as were designated by the Legislature at the time of the enactment.
The constitution admitted none as members except those who had received a diploma from some authorized medical school or university.
We regret that documents are not accessible for a com- plete list of the members of the first Medical Society of Maine, so far as they have been residents of York County ; but we have not been able to find more than one journal of the proceedings,-the number for 1834, and that in the library of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Philadel- phia.
George Packard, M.D., of Saco, and James Ayer, M.D., of Newfield, were members of the old society.
Moses Sweat, M.D., Burleigh Smart, M.D., and J. Gil- man, M.D., were councilors of the society for York County in 1834.
The officers of the society for 1834 were the following : B. D. Bartlett, M.D., Portland, President ; Burleigh Smart, M.D., Kennebunk, Ist Vice-President ; Moses Sweat, M.D., Parsonsfield, 2d Vice-President ; James McKean, M.D., Topsham, Corresponding Secretary ; Moses Shaw, M.D., Wiscasset, Recording Secretary ; Jonathan Page, M.D., Brunswick, Treasurer ; Censors, B. D. Bartlett, Portland ; John Hubbard, Hallowell; Moses Sweat, Parsonsfield; J. Gilman, York ; J. W. Nighles, Minot.
The first Medical Society of Maine seems to have been discontinued for a time, and a new association formed, of which the following is a copy taken from the records :
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. Hill, Briggs, G. S. Palmer, Libby, Fuller, Garcelon, 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, H. II. 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- son, Abial Libby, J. F. Stanley, N. R. Boutelle, John 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 enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows :
"SECTION 1. H. H. Hill, John Benson, John D. Lincoln, Gilman Daveis, Joseph W. Ellis, John Hubbard, James McKeen, Alonzo Garcelon, H. L. K. Wiggin, Jobn Cook, Sylvester Oakes, N. C. Har- ris, Alcander Burbank, William Kilbourne, J. P. Fessenden, P. Dyer, Edmond R. Russell, Isaac 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, Secretary, 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 direct, 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 anqual 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 bas not received the degree of doctor in medicine from some medical in- stitution duly authorized to confer the same, nor unless he shall have passed a successful examination, and be 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 such 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 confer, 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- ceeding meeting shall be designated, and when the Association does 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
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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."
MEMBERS IN YORK COUNTY.
Allen, J. L., Saco.
Bacon, Alvan, Biddeford.
Bird, Arthur S., Springvale.
Meserve, A. K. P., Buxton.
Mulvey, B. C., Saco.
Bradford, A. K. P., Hollis. Bragdon, Edmund, Jr., West Buxton. Clark, S. O., Limerick.
Day, J. F., Alfred.
Dennett, R. G., Saco.
Emery, C. J., Biddeford.
Faunce, N. D., West Buxton. Grant, J. P., Saco. Gross, Charles W., Acton. Hawkes, Wilson L., York. Hayes, J. A., Biddeford.
Hill, Luke, Biddeford. Hill, Hampton E., Biddeford.
Hurd, E. E., Lymao.
Jaques, Edwin D., South Ber- wick. Jewett, T. H., South Berwick. Kimball, J. E. S., Saco. Libby, Alvan, Wells.
Moulton, John F., Limington. Nash, Samuel A., South Berwick. Quinby, Fred., Biddeford. Sawyer, James, Biddeford. Smith, Dryden, Biddeford. Staples, G. D., North Berwick. Spear, David D., Kennebuak. Stevens, E. G., Biddeford. Stockwell, Emmous F., Alfred. Swasey, William, Limerick. Swasey, William B., Cornish. Sweat, William, Hollis. Sweat, M. E., North Parsonsfield. Trafton, C. C., Kennebunkport. Warren, Francis G., Biddeford. Wedgwood, J. T., Coraish.
Wentworth, Jacob B., Wells. Wescott, Wm., Kennebunkport. Willis, J. L. M., Eliot.
Dr. William B. Swasey was corresponding secretary in 1872, first vice-president in 1874, and delegate to the American Medical Association in 1877.
Dr. A. Libby was delegate to the Vermont Medical As- sociation in 1873.
Dr. J. L. Allen was delegate to the Vermout Medical Association in 1874.
Dr. A. K. P. Meserve was delegate to the Connecticut Medical Society in 1875.
Dr. T. A. Jewett was delegate to the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1876.
PRESENT PHYSICIANS OF SACO.
The present physicians of Saco are Joseph P. Grant, J. E. L. Kimball, J. L. Allen, A. W. Larrabee, M. W. Hall, allopathic ; S. P. Graves, homoeopathic ; S. C. Libby, eclectic.
Dr. Joseph P. Grant was born in Saco, March 11, 1813; studied in Buxton and Hollis, and graduated at the Maine Medical College in 1837. He began practice in Alfred in 1837, and afterwards practiced four years in Falmouth, Me., when he removed to Saco, where he has been in the practice of his profession ever since.
Among the earlier physicians were Drs. John A. Berry, James R. Goodwin, now of Portland, and George Packard, who changed profession for the ministry of the Episcopal Church.
Roscoe G. Dennett, M.D., was a physician at Saco from 1862 to 1877, the time of his death. He was an excellent physician, a member of the Maine Medical Association, and graduate of the Maine Medical College about 1862.
In 1866, Drs. J. O. Moore and L. F. Morse practiced in Saco ; how much earlier and later we are not informed. Also at this time Dr. N. Brooks was practicing in Saco.
J. E. L. Kimball, M.D., was born in Pembroke, N. H.,
July 30, 1819 ; studied with Dr. Palmer, and graduated at the Vermont Medical College in 1847. Previous to com- mencing in Saco, in 1849, he practiced one year in Bald- win, Me. Dr. Kimball was in the army as the surgeon of the 27th Maine Regiment, and made a good record for him- self. He has a large practice in Saco, and is a member of the Maine Medical Association.
Among physicians in 1849, in Saco, were Dr. B. C. Mu- lony, Dr. H. C. Fessenden, and Dr. Cushman, who after- wards became a Methodist minister. Henry P. C. Green, M.D., came here afterwards and remained in practice till his death.
Dr. A. W. Larrabee graduated at Westbrook Seminary in 1870, and studied medicine with Dr. Weeks, of Port- land. After attending lectures at the Maine Medical Col- lege, he graduated at Dartmouth Medical School in 1873. Dr. Larrabee was born in Scarborough, Aug. 20, 1852.
BIDDEFORD PHYSICIANS.
The following is a list of the present physicians in Bid- deford : Alvan Bacon, Horace Bacon, Addison Brown, C. J. Emery, H. E. Hill, J. A. Lapointe, R. G. Milliken, J. Parker, James Sawyer, Elbridge Stevens, Francis G. War- ren, F. S. Warren, W. B. Whiting, Frank Quinby.
HORACE BACON, M.D.
Horace Bacon, M.D. (Alvan+, Alvan3, Daniel", John1), born in the town of Scarborough, Cumberland Co., Me., March 29, 1804, is fifth in descent from John Bacon, born in 1710, and who died 1806. His father, Alvan Bacon, born Sept. 27, 1771, in Charlton, Worcester Co., Mass., came to Scarborough during the latter part of the eighteenth cen- tury, where he practiced medicine for a period of forty-five years, and where he died Aug. 15, 1848. He was a very successful practitioner, a great favorite with the people, and a man generally esteemed for his intelligence, sociability, and sterling integrity. He married, in October, 1800, Sally, daughter of Capt. John Mulbury Milliken, of Scar- borough, who was a descendant from Hugh Milliken, the emigrant settler from Scotland, in Boston, about 1650. His son, John Milliken, married Elizabeth, granddaughter of Andrew Alger, iu 1690, and settled iu Scarborough in 1719. He purchased the interest of the other heirs in the Alger estate, and held the property under an Indian title in court in 1730.
Their children are Horace, subject of this notice; Alvan Bacon, M.D., of Biddeford, Me .; Sarah (deceased), wife of the late Dr. Seth Larrabee, of Portland; and Mary (deceased), wife of the late Rodley D. Hill, of Detroit, Mich.
Dr. Horace Bacon received his preliminary education at the Saco Academy, studied medicine with his father, and with Prof. John D. Wells, of Boston, and graduated from the medical department of Bowdoin College in 1825. In March, 1826, he began practice in Biddeford, and for ten years made his visits to patients in the surrounding towns on horseback, and on many occasions his record shows that as far back as in 1837 he made thirty visits per day. He has remained in continuous practice of his pro- fession where he first settled for a period of fifty-three
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Francis S. Warren
His great-grandfather, Benjamin Warren, came to Somersworth, N. H., from England ; thence to Biddeford, and in 1770 settled in Hollis, Me. His grandfather was Benjamin, and his father, Stephen, born in Hollis, in 1800, married Lavina Young, of Waterborough, who was born in 1803. He was a farmer through life, and died in 1873. Of his two children, Eunice is deceased.
Dr. Warren was born in Hollis, March 4, 1828; received a good education in boyhood, and at the early age of fourteen became a teacher. He con- tinued teaching and attending school until he was twenty years old, and in the mean time, at the age of seventeen, began the study of medicine with Dr. William Swasey, of Limerick. He graduated from the medical department of Bowdoin College at the age of twenty, and the same year, 1848, set- tled in Pownal, Cumberland Co., Me., in practice. He remained there for seven years, and in 1855 settled in Biddeford in the practice of his profession. In 1860 he attended Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1861. Returning to Biddeford, he was appointed assistant surgeon of the 5th Maine Regiment, 6th Corps, Col. Mark Dunnell commanding, and in June of the same year accompanied the regiment to the front. To give an outline sketch of Dr. Warren's experi- ence in the army would be to narrate in detail the suffering in every way of thousands of wounded, of the marches, privations, and battles, in the thickest of the fight, from the battle of Bull Run to Peters- burg.
He took his place in the field, refusing permanent
hospital service, and kept it as long as he was in the service, He performed surgical operations during the engagements of Bull Run, Peninsula campaign, and Antietam, after which latter engagement he was promoted to surgeon of the regiment. Dr. Warren was with his regiment afterwards in the battles of Fredericksburg, the bloody engagement in storming Mary's Heights, Rappahannock Station, Gettys- burg, Wilderness, and Petersburg, and of the eigh- teen hundred soldiers and recruits in the regiment, only some two hundred were left alive to return to their homes.
During his term of service Dr. Warren made upwards of four hundred amputations. He was mustered out of the service July, 1864; returned to his practice in Biddeford, where he has since re- mained, giving most of his attention to surgery. He is knowu as a skillful and safe operator in surgery, and his large and varied experience in the army gives him a place among the first in the county and State. Dr. Warren is interested in all local enter- prises tending to the prosperity of the city. He was alderman in 1871, and mayor in 1872-74, and 1875.
He is a member of the Maine Medical Association, of Dunlap Masonic Lodge, and Bradford Com- mandery. He married, Nov. 16, 1848, Harriet N., daughter of Thomas and Marilla (Welch) Roberts, of Brunswick, Me. He has one son, Frank, who studied medicine with his father, and at the age of twenty-one graduated at Bowdoin, in 1872, and is now practicing medicine and surgery in Bidde- ford.
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years, and is (in 1879) the senior member of the medical fraternity in actual practice in York County. Dr. Bacon is familiarly known throughout this section of the State as a skillful physician and surgeon, and well read in medical literature. In his surgical operations he has shown great ingenuity in inventing and constructing his own instru- ments to operate with, and especially for operations of the eye and hare-lip. His acknowledged professional ability, his great experience in the treatment of difficult cases, his care in administering to the wants of the sick, and his great sympathy for, and assistance to, those from whom no remu- neration could possibly be expected, have given him the confidence and esteem of all classes of the community where he resides. Dr. Bacon has been successful in his practice from the first, and has always retained friendly relations with his medical brethren. Many young men and prac- ticing physicians of thirty years' experience remember the kindness of Dr. Bacon towards them when they first started out in the practice of medicine. His assistance, his kind and encouraging words, were examples to them, be- speaking a generous and sympathizing nature, as they met
He married, April 22, 1828, Mary E., daughter of Ed- mond and Mary (Hill) Coffin, of Biddeford. She was born July 25, 1807, and is a woman of great moral worth and Christian excellence. Iler father was a prominent citizen of Biddeford ; was a deputy sheriff of the county, and clerk of Biddeford from 1804 to 1838.
His children are Henry, a graduate of Dartmouth Col- lege, in the class of 1854, and a lawyer by profession ; Charles, a jeweler in Dover, N. H .; Mary ; and Horace, a manufacturing jeweler in Lowell, Mass.
ORREN ROSS, M.D.
Orren Ross, M.D., eldest son of Simon and Mary (Perkins) Ross, was born in Kennebunk, Sept. 14, 1812. His parents were also natives of the sarue place. Ile received his edu- cation in the common schools and in the Kennebunk and North Bridgton Academies. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to Dixey Stone, a grocer of Bridgton Cen- tre, Me., with whom he remained until he was twenty years old, when he began trade for himself at Sweden, Oxford Co., Me. After about two years in business, he disposed of
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insurmountable obstacles in their early experience. At the age of seventy-five his energy is unremitting, his love for the faithful discharge of his professional duties constant, and his desire to do good to the suffering remains un- changed. Dr. Bacon has been interested in all local enter- prises tending to benefit society, and for the growth and prosperity of the city of his adoption, and little connected with business outside of his professional labors.
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