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He had overworked. Besides the care of regular classes and legiti- mate duties, he had taken pupils in special courses of study, and every remaining moment of time that should have been given to rest and recuperation, had been seized by the one ruling purpose of his ambi- tion-to be a lawyer. Each spare hour since he left Colonel Austin's office in Boston had been rigorously occupied in preparatory reading. The proof of this is at hand. On his way home from Waterville he stopped at Hallowell and presented himself before the examining committee, composed of these three eminent lawyers: Judge Wil- liams Emmons, James W. Bradbury and Judge Samuel Wells. After thorough examination, a certificate for admission to the bar was promptly given him.
Three months' rest at home revived the powers that had been wearied, not wasted, and his active nature demanded employment. He came to Gardiner in the latter part of 1838, and rented an office in a building on the corner where Jackson's drug store now stands, in which George Evans, then in the height of his brilliant career, also had an office. Across the street was another famous lawyer, Frederick Allen. More than half a century has rolled away since that time- almost fifty-four years-and still Mr. Whitmore has the physical vigor to walk daily to his office, and the mental vigor to attend to the legal and the financial management of his accumulated possessions. Be- fore the present generation of lawyers was born, or while they were yet children, Mr. Whitmore was fighting his legal battles with such Nestors of the bar as Reuel Williams, Henry W. Paine, and the two already named. With Mr. Paine he was always very intimate, pro- fessionally and personally. He assisted Frederick Allen in the last case he ever tried.
His whole practice has been general; real estate, railroad and mer- cantile interests have given him his hardest work in the courts, some of the cases involving parties and having lawyers in other states. High ambition, with a definite purpose, strong will, self denial and great industry have been the powers and the methods of his long and successful life. Naturally thoughtful and discriminating, his thor- ough education and his varied experience as a teacher have combined to make him exact and scholarly, with a decided literary taste and appreciation. The brilliant essays and historical writings of Macauley are his greatest delight.
With strong social capacities and warm personal attachments, yet his profession, its successes and its rewards, have been the mistress of his heart. He has never married. The number of accessions to the learned professions from Mr. Whitmore's brothers and their sons
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is worthy of record. His brothers, Stephen and Chadbourn, were leading physicians of Gardiner; Albion S., son of Samuel, is a phy- sician in Boston, and John Edward, son of John, is a physician in Buffalo, N. Y. Nathaniel M., 2d, son of Amherst; Stephen C., son of Samuel: Samuel W., son of John, and Warren S., son of Stephen, have each read law with, and been admitted to the bar from the office of their uncle, Nathaniel M. Whitmore, of Gardiner.
Warren S. Whitmore, son of the late Dr. Stephen Whitmore, of Gardiner, was born in that city in 1859. After attending the common school he graduated from Gardiner High School, and entered Bow- doin. While pursuing the college course he continued the reading of law under the direction of Nathaniel M. Graduating at Bowdoin in 1880, he finished the next year his law course, and was admitted in 1881. The death of his father at that time left him to settle a con- siderable estate, and to similar business and office practice in his native city he has subsequently given his chief attention.
Nathaniel M. Whitmore, 2d, a son of Amherst and Mary Jane (Perry) Whitmore, of Bowdoinham, graduated from Bowdoin College in 1854. He read law with his uncle, Nathaniel M. Whitmore, in Gardiner, where he settled in the practice of his profession. Ambi- tion, industry and a natural adaptation to his calling soon brought a large and engrossing legal business. The public schools engaged his special attention, and his labors in their interest culminated in his being made their superintendent. He was well fitted by his thorough college training for the invaluable service he rendered the cause of education in Gardiner. His professional interests were often sacri- ficed to this service. In the midst of the most obvious overtasking of all his powers, he was smitten with typhoid pneumonia, from which occurred his lamented death, in Gardiner, March 4, 1871, at the age of thirty-seven years. He had two brothers, George L. and Amherst, and one sister, Ellen J. Whitmore, now of Brunswick, Me.
Benjamin Whitwell was born in 1772, graduated from Harvard in 1790, and came to Augusta in 1796. Here he practiced in partnership with Williams Emmons, Henry W. Fuller and John Potter. In 1812 he removed to Boston, and thirteen years later died at sea while re- turning from Charleston, S. C.
Samuel S. Wilde, born in 1771, graduated from Dartmouth in 1789, and came to Hallowell in 1799. He removed to Massachusetts on the separation of Maine in 1820, to continue there the exercise of his office as judge of the supreme court, to which he had been appointed in 1815. He married Eunice Cobb, and had nine children, five of whom were born in Hallowell between 1800 and 1809. He died in 1855.
Bion Wilson was born in Thomaston, Me., in 1855, studied law with James W. Bradbury, was admitted to the bar and practiced in Augusta until 1884, when he removed to Portland.
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William Woart, once president of the Granite Bank of Augusta, 1840-46, was a lawyer in the last years of his life, being admitted in 1842, and practicing in Augusta about 1860. He married Lucy, daughter of Charles Williams, in January, 1845.
Joseph T. Woodward, born in Sidney about 1845, was admitted in 1868. He was state senator, then state librarian, prior to 1872.
In the following alphabetical list of lawyers who are, or who have been, members of the Kennebec bar, either the date of admission is mentioned with the name, or the place and time of practice, or the place only, as can be ascertained; otherwise the name only is given : Bartlett Allen, Waterville, 1824; Manley T. Abbott, 1855; John G. Ab- bott, 1873; E. C. Ambrose, 1881; Abisha Benson, China, 1823; Rich- ard Belcher, Winthrop, 1824; James Bell, 1836; Clifford Belcher, 1841; Erastus Bartlett, 1843; Thomas J. Burgess, 1846; Silas M. Buck, 1855; Samuel A. Barker, 1857; Hiram O. Butterfield, 1858; James W. Brad- bury, jun., 1863; Marcus P. Bestow, 1867; George B. Blodgette, 1868; Herbert Blake, Oakland and Hallowell, 1878; Edward A. Berry, 1877; Walker Blaine, 1878; Thomas Bond, jun., and S. Bishop, in practice in 1810; Benjamin C. Coolidge, 1836; Sewall Cram, 1836; Horace S. Cooley, 1839; Benjamin F. Chandler, Waterville, 1843; Edmund A. Chadwick, 1844; Paul L. Chandler, Waterville, 1844: Samuel H. Cur- rier, 1848; Henry Clark, 1852; Isaac Coffin, 1853; Melvin Cunning- ham, 1856; Hiram Choate, 1870; Charles W. Clement, 1874; Leonard D. Carver, 1876; John P. Craig, 1851; James Cunningham, 1881; J. W. Corson, 1886; J. C. Chandler; Charles M. Dustin, Gardiner, 1824; Charles Dummer, Hallowell, 1824; Jonathan G. Dickerson, 1839; Peter Dunn, 1842; Henry E. Dyer, 1842; Patrick J. Devine, 1843; Francis J. Day, 1846; Emery Douglass, 1861; Frederick N. Dow, 1876; Marion Douglass, 1878; Arthur F. Drinkwater; Gridley T. Estes, 1837; New- ton Edwards, 1850; Enoch Farnham, Albion, 1824; David H. Foster, Readfield; David Fales, 1851; Enoch Foster, jun., 1865; Charles H. G. Frye, Augusta and Vassalboro, 1869; Horace W. Fuller, 1876; Wilbert C. Fletcher, 1888; Walter Gould, 1836; Eldridge L. Getchell, Water- ville, 1839; William Gaslin, jun., 1858; Orrin T. Gray, Waterville, 1860; John C. Gray, 1863; Charles C. Grow, 1863; Daniel F. Goodrich, 1866; Nelson F. Graffam, 1875; Francis B. Greene, 1880; William H. Gibbs, 1880; H. H. Gurley, practiced in 1810; William B. Glazier, 1850; Charles U. Greeley, Winthrop, 1890; Irving D. Hodsdon, 1887; Thomas A. Hill, practiced in 1810; Everett Hammons, Clinton, about 1810; Mark P. Hatch, Clinton, about 1875; Lorenzo J. Hallett, 1851; Horatio D. Hutchinson, 1852; Melville G. Hanscom, 1852; Stetson L. Hill, 1858; John L. Hunter, 1858; B. B. Hanson, 1859; Thomas H. Hubbard, 1860; Charles K. Hutchins, 1861; Samuel C. Harley, 1863; Frank S. Hesseltine, 1865; John E. Hanly, 1872; William G. Hunton, 1878; Emery N. Howard, 1883; Charles Haggerty, 1883; Edward T.
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Ingraham, 1847; Henry Johnson, Clinton, 1824; Frank H. Jackson, Hallowell, 1867; Treby Johnson, Augusta, 1875; Henry Jackson, 1880; Cyrus Knapp, 1852; William H. Kelly, 1877; Reuben L. Keene, 1841; Ephraim H. Lambert, Hallowell; Philip Leach, Vassalboro, 1824; Rodney G. Lincoln, 1856; William H. Lambert, 1866; Hiram B. Lawrence, 1868; William A. Lancaster, 1881: Fremont J. C. Little, Augusta, 1892; Joseph H. Manly, 1863; Denis A. Meaher, 1875; R. M. Mills, Belgrade; William Matthews, 1840; William S. Marshall, 1841; George S. Mulliken, 1847; Tristam McFadden, 1858; Milton M. Mer- rill, 1845; John D. Myrick, 1865; George J. Moody, 1877; Anson P. Mills, 1878; Gilbert H. O'Reilly, a tailor, 1843; William O. Otis, 1853; Lemuel Paine, Winslow, 1824; Ara C. Potten, 1856; Thomas H. B. Pierce, 1866; Cassius C. Powers, of Augusta, 1871; John O. Page, of Hallowell, 1845; Appleton H. Plaisted, of Waterville, 1880; George S. Paine, 1884; Warren Preston, practiced in 1810; Frank L. Plummer, Waterville, died 1892; Sylvanus W. Robinson; Joshua L. Randall, 1864; Charles R. Rice, 1871; E. W. Ripley, practiced in 1810; Chester J. Reed, 1846; Nathaniel L. Sawyer, 1841; Isaac W. Springer, 1849; Greenlief T. Stevens [see page 91]; B. L. Smith, Oakland; Samuel A. Stinson, 1852; George Harvey Snell, 1853: Ansel Smith, 1855; Thomas B. Sherman, 1858: Joseph W. Spaulding, 1865; A. G. Stinch- field, 1850; Martin B. Soule, Waterville, 1870; Albion R. Simmons, 1881; Bartlett Tripp, 1867; Herbert R. Tinkham, 1881; Orrin A. Tuell, Augusta, 1887 (Heather & Tuell); George F. Talbot, 1840; William N. Titus, 1851; Joseph B. Wells, 1838; William H. Weeks, 1842; Horatio Woodbury, 1855; Henry Clay Wood, 1856; Eugene L. White, 1857; Benjamin F. Wright, Waterville, 1886; Matthias Weeks, Clinton, 1824; Henry A. Wyman, 1848; David T. Wright, Gardiner, 1854; Samuel W. Whitmore, 1877; William G. Waitt, 1878; Edward L. Whitehouse, 1880; Frank S. Webster, Clinton, about 1885; S. H. Willard, Oakland, now practicing in Mercer, Somerset county.
CHAPTER XV.
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
P RACTITIONERS of the art of healing belong to a brotherhood that is older than history. It was born with transgression and pain, and is man's effort to mitigate the effects of broken law. Horace Mann condensed the question and its solution nearly half a century ago in the following words, that no one has had the temerity to dispute: " However graciously God may deal with the heart, all our experience proves that he never pardons stomach, muscles, liver, nor brain." Not till of late has any adequate force of this truth been ac- knowledged by the profession. To the average patient it is still among the things he does not know, and so, failing to find absolution in a dose of medicine, he blames his doctor for failing to perform the impossible. No other profession has traveled further from its start, or is still so long a journey from satisfactory results. In no other is exact knowledge so scarce and in such demand, or assumed knowl- edge in such over supply. No other field of exploration presents greater difficulties or offers greater prizes. No profession is more earnest in its effort and intention to do the very best thing, and no other fails of its aim half so often. Though still in its empiric stage, no profession has lain so near the great heart of the world as the medical. Its members march in step with each generation from the cradle to the tomb. No other mingles so freely with all classes, or is so broadly in touch with the pulse of humanity, from its highest to its lowest types. The duties of no other so often penetrate the inner sanctuary of the home, and to no other are the most secret facts of life so often revealed. Men in no other calling are so often appealed to for gratuitous service, and no others respond so freely or so often. It is confidently asserted that Kennebec county has fortunately been served by medical men who have averaged well up in their attain- ments, while some names have shed light and lustre on their art.
Carroll W. Abbott studied with Dr. George H. Wilson, of Albion, graduated from Bowdoin College in 1882-3, and soon after began practice in Albion.
ENOCH ADAMS, of Litchfield, comes of Welsh blood-a race whose achievements adorn, and whose origin antedates, history: His ances-
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tor, Robert Adams, a tailor, came with his wife, Eleanor, to Ipswich, Mass., about 1635; thence to Salem, and died in Newbury in 1682.
Their second son, Sergeant Abraham Adams, born in Salem in 1639, married Mary Pettengill, and died in Newbury in 1714. Captain Abraham Adams, the second son of Sergeant Abraham, was born in 1676 and married Anne Longfellow. Henry, their eighth son, was born in Newbury in 1722, and married Sarah Emery. Enoch, the second son of Henry and Sarah, was born in 1752 and married his first wife, Sally Bragg, in 1778, and his second wife, Lydia Moody, in 1803.
Enoch Adams, the first child by his first wife, was born in 1779, in Andover, Mass. He married Lucy, daughter of Rev. John Strickland, in 1807, and removed to Andover, Me., where their son, Dr. Enoch Adams, was born, May 21, 1829.
He was educated in the schools of his native town and later at . Kents Hill, when that school was rising on its tide of wonderful pros- perity under that peerless educator, Doctor Torsey. Choosing the medical profession, he attended lectures first at Bowdoin College and then at Harvard University, where he graduated from the medical department in 1851. During the same year he married Mary H. Case and settled in Litchfield, in medical practice. When the war broke out he tendered his services as assistant surgeon to the authorities at Augusta, with no definite result. Some weeks later he was surprised by the receipt of his appointment from Governor Washburn as sur- geon of the 14th Maine Regiment, to take effect November 15, 1861. He reported for duty and served under General Butler in New Orleans, and went on that fruitless Red River expedition under Gen- eral Banks. The severe strain of the climate and the exposure of all the vicissitudes of war produced a large per cent. of sickness in the army, necessitating constant vigilance and exhausting labor by the surgeons and their assistants. The effects of overwork and little rest compelled him to leave the service and attend to his own health. Returning to Litchfield, he resumed his practice as soon as his strength would permit.
Between his graduation and the present time lie forty-one years of successful, unremitting professional work. This long service has brought him in close relations with the inhabitants of a great sweep of surrounding country and an intimate acquaintance with his medi- cal brethren. With both classes he stands high-with the first indis- pensable. He is an active, zealous Mason, member of Litchfield Lodge and of Gardiner Chapter. He is also a valued member of the Maine and of the Kennebec County Medical Associations. He was selected as the republican representative to the legislature of 1887, where he served as secretary of the committee charged with investi-
Enoch Adam In 2.
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gating in behalf of the state the causes, nature and remedy of tuber- culosis in cattle.
Doctor Adams' children are: Enoch C., master of the high school at Newburyport, Mass .; M. Vinton, M.D., graduate of the medical de- partment of the Pennsylvania University, of Philadelphia, and now practicing at Brunswick, Me .; Wendall H., who graduated in medi- cine at Bowdoin College and is now practicing at Kingston, Mass .; M. Lenora, formerly preceptress at Kents Hill, now Mrs. Professor B. O. McIntire, of Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pa .; Hermon H., a farmer in Belgrade, Me .; Lulu G., teacher of Latin at Kents Hill; Frank N., at home on the farm, and M. Lena, now a student at Kents Hill.
Moses Appleton was born in Ipswich, N. H., in 1773, studied medi- cine at Medford, Mass., with Governor Brooks, graduated from Dart- mouth in the class of 1791, received the degree of M. D. from the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1796, and the same year began prac- tice in Waterville, where he died in 1849. He married Ann Clark, and had five children: Ann L., Samuel, Mary J., George A. and Moses, who was a lawyer at Bangor.
Daniel R. Bailey, son of Ezekiel, and oldest brother of Charles M. Bailey, of Winthrop, was born in 1815 and took the degree of M.D. at Philadelphia. He established a practice in Winthrop in 1838, and in 1849 went to East Winthrop. He died in 1858.
Stephen Barton came in 1774 from Oxford, Mass., to Vassalboro, where he practiced until 1788, and then returned to Oxford. About 1803 he located in Malta, now Windsor, where he died in 1805.
James M. Bates, born at Norridgewock in 1827, began the study of medicine in Augusta in 1848, graduated from Jefferson Medical Col- lege in 1851, and in May of that year began practice at South China, removing in 1854 to Sidney, where he practiced five years, and then went to Yarmouth, Me., where he still resides. He was surgeon of the 13th Maine during the war.
Solomon Bates [see page 960] was a native of Fayette and once represented the district in congress.
John Thwing Bates, a member of the Maine Medical Association, graduated from the Medical School of Maine in 1859. He practiced medicine a year in Winthrop, taking the place of Doctor Snow during his absence abroad, and then went into the army as assistant surgeon of the 11th Maine. He died April 11, 1863, at Port Royal, S. C.
Peleg Benson was the only practitioner in Winthrop from 1792 until 1806. He was born in Middleborough, Mass., in 1766, came to Winthrop in 1792, and married Sally, daughter of Colonel Simon Page. He died in 1848.
Alden E. Bessey, born in Hebron, Me., in 1838, is a son of Erastus and Sarah (Smith) Bessey. He studied at Hebron Academy, Kents
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Hill Seminary and Colby University, and graduated from Amherst College. In 1870 he graduated from the Brunswick, Me., Medical School, and later took a special course at the Post Graduate Medical School, of New York. In 1870 he opened practice in Wayne, and in 1871 removed to Sidney, where he practiced until 1890, when he came to Waterville. His first wife, Helen J. Morton, left two sons: Murton W., now a student at the medical school at Brunswick, and Earl E. His present wife is Clara A. Forbs. Their daughter is Lenora Bessey.
H. M. BLAKE, of Monmouth, is the great-grandson of Phineas Blake," whose sister was the mother of the illustrious General Henry Dearborn, who was also a physician. He was born November 29, 1836, on the farm at East Monmouth that has now been occupied by the Blake family of five generations. Doctor Blake received his early education in Monmouth Academy, and from there went to Kents Hill, where he fitted for college. In 1858 he entered Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn., and graduated in the class of 1862. He then taught school in the city of Bath, and later became an in- structor in Monroe Seminary, Wisconsin. In 1867 he began the study of medicine in Bowdoin College. From there he went to the Belle- vue Hospital Medical College, New York, from which institution he received the degree of M. D. in the spring of 1869. He practiced his profession at Readfield with marked success until the fall of 1875, when he removed to Monmouth Center, where he now resides and around which he has built up a good practice. He is a member of the State and County Medical Societies, has been a useful trustee of Kents Hill Seminary since 1874, and for several years served with much ability on the prudential committee.
D. P. Bolster, secretary of the County Medical Society, was born in Paris, Me., in 1827, attended Norway High School and Hebron Academy, studied medicine with Doctors Brickett and Millet, and graduated in 1852 from Bowdoin Medical College. After three years in Leeds and Washington, Me., he located in China, Me., where he practiced until 1877, when he removed to Augusta, where he is in general practice. In September, 1862, he was appointed as- sistant surgeon of the 21st Maine, and after that regiment was mus- tered out he was again commissioned in the 16th Maine, in which he served until the close of the war.
NATHANIEL R. BOUTELLE was the son of the eminent lawyer, Timothy Boutelle, noticed at page 308, who married at Exeter, N. H., Helen Rogers, who was born in 1789. Nathaniel R. was born in Waterville in 1821, and, after the usual preparatory course, entered Waterville College in 1839. After spending two years there he was compelled, by sickness, to retire from his class. In 1843 he began the study of medicine, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College,
* His family is noticed at page 794 et seq .- [ED.
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Philadelphia, in 1847. In 1848 he attended clinics at the Pennsyl- vania Hospital and was a student at the Obstetrical Institute in Phila- delphia, and in 1854 he attended a course of medical lectures in that city.
After graduating from Jefferson College he began practice in Waterville, where he resided until his death. In 1852 he married Mary, daughter of Prof. George W. Keely, of Waterville College. Timothy, their elder son, was born in 1853, and died in 1864; George K., the younger son, born in 1857, is noticed as a lawyer on page 318.
In 1857 Doctor Boutelle attended lectures in Edinboro, Scotland. In 1864, in response to a special call for surgical assistance, he was assigned to hospital duty at Fredericksburg. At the close of his ser- vice there he returned to Waterville, where his wide experience and remarkable skill soon gained for him a professional eminence that ex- tended throughout the state and was never exceeded by that of any physician in the upper valley of the Kennebec. For many years he was interested in the breeding of Jersey cattle and Southdown sheep at his farm in Waterville. [See pages 211 and 215]. In 1858 Doctor Boutelle became a member of the Maine Medical Association. From 1875 he was a director, and from 1884 president of the Ticonic Na- tional Bank at Waterville, until his death there in December, 1890.
George E. Brickett was born in Hartford, Vt., in 1824. He attended the academy at Lancaster, N. H., studied medicine with Doctor Swa- sey, at Limerick, Me., and graduated in medicine at Hanover, N. H., in 1846. He was a charter member of the Maine Medical Association. He practiced in China, Me., for twelve years prior to 1861, when he became surgeon of the 21st Maine, and was in service until the close of the war, when he came to Augusta and was in charge of the U. S. general hospital until 1865. He has been president of the Augusta board of pension examiners many years.
G. Hartwell Brickett was born in China, Me., in 1860, studied medi- cine with his father, George E., graduated from Bellevue Medical Col- lege, New York, in 1885, and is now in practice at Augusta.
Cyrus Briggs, born in 1800, at Little Compton, R. I., graduated at Harvard University in 1821, studied medicine with Dr. Jacob Bige- low, of Boston, and graduated from the Harvard Medical College in 1826. He commenced practice in Augusta in March, 1827, and con- tinued uninterruptedly for more than forty-five years.
Ezekiel Brown, who had served as surgeon in the revolutionary army, came to Maine in 1789 and settled at Brown's Corner, Benton, where he continued to practice until his death, June 30, 1824. His wife, Mary, died May 6, 1832. They had ten children: Ezekiel, jun., Nathan, Beriah, Samuel, George, and five daughters.
SILAS BURBANK, of Mt. Vernon, was born in the town of Parsons- field, Me., January 2, 1840, a town noted for turning out more doctors
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than any town of equal population in Maine. His ancestors were English, and lived in Saco. Silas' and Eleazer Burbank, brothers, the former his great-grandfather, both served as musicians in the revolu- tionary war. Silas' had a son, Silas, who settled in Newfield, Me., and in turn bestowed his father's honored name on one of his boys, who thereby became Silas3. The latter settled in Parsonsfield and mar- ried Mary Burbank, whose father was a younger brother of her hus. band's grandfather. Their children were: Silas', Thatcher W., Mary E., Harriet P., Melinda W. and Moses S. By his second wife, Han- nah L. Bragdon, he had two more children: Annie and Frederic L.
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