History of Providence County, Rhode Island, Volume I, Part 15

Author: Bayles, Richard M. (Richard Mather), ed
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: New York, W. W. Preston
Number of Pages: 1036

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M.D. in 1880. He was a surgeon in the charity hospital, Blackwell's Island, from 1880 to 1882; began practice at Waterbury, Conn., in 1882; and came to Pawtucket in 1887, where he still resides and practices his profession. He has held membership in many profes- sional and social societies wherever he has been located. He mar- ried Florence Wells, of Waterbury, and has one son, Horace.

Doctor Charles Harris Fisher, son of George Clinton and Harriet (Cady) Fisher, was born in Killingly, Conn., June 30th, 1822. His early educational advantages were very limited, but later he acquired a fair classical and scientific education, the expenses of which, with those of his subsequent medical studies, were defrayed solely by his personal labor. He pursued the study of medicine with Doctor Jus- tin Hammond, of Connecticut, and Prof. Alfred C. Post, M.D., LL.D., of New York. He was connected as student and assistant with the New York City Hospital, and received his medical education at that institution and at the University of the City of New York, and at Dartmouth Medical College, where he was graduated in 1847; and afterward attended lectures at the medical department of Har- vard University. Immediately after this he settled in Scituate, R. I., where he engaged in general practice, but gave special attention to uterine diseases and to the surgical branch of his profession, perform- ing nearly all the surgical operations that were called for within a considerable extent of surrounding country, where he was for some years principal consulting physician. He has been prominent in the Rhode Island Medical Society since joining it in 1850, and repre- sented it at the meeting of the American Association in 1858. He has served the state society for many years as censor, vice-president and president. Outside of professional lines he has held various offices: superintendent of schools and various town offices; state sen- ator at different times, during which service he was a member of the judiciary committee and other prominent committees; member of the state board of education from 1870 to 1880, when he declined further re-election; trustee of State Normal School ten years; chairman of state fish commission; presidential elector in 1876; president of Citi- zens' Union Bank; president of Scituate National Bank, 1865 to 1876; secretary of state board of health, 1878 to 1890; and as presiding officer of many social, literary and benevolent associations of the county and state. He took an active part in the establishment of the State Normal School, the work of stocking the waters of the state with fish, and promoting the construction of the Providence & Springfield railroad. In 1862 he was appointed a member of the surgical board of exemption from draft, and from 1862 to 1865 was an inspector of recruits for the army, being denied service in the field because of physical disability. In 1880 he removed to Providence, and was that year elected commissioner of public health and state registrar of vital statistics, both of which offices he still holds. He has done much

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literary work, in various lines: contributed to the public press and to medical periodicals; prepared eleven annual reports on the registra- tion of births, marriages and deaths in Rhode Island, amounting to about 2,200, and twelve annual reports of the state board of health, comprising about 4,250 pages; edited the Monthly Bulletin of the state board of health (a periodical of 20 octavo pages) from the commence- ment in 18SS: and drafted numerous acts for legislative approval, many of which are now embodied in the public statutes and laws of the state. He has been a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the American Social Science Associa- tion; the American Public Health Association, of which he is one of the advisory council; the American Medical Association; the Inter- national Medical Congress of 1887, held at Washington, D. C., and of the Congress of 1890, held in Berlin, Germany. He was married February 22d, 1849, to Sophia R. Smith, of Scituate, and has four children: George R., a graduate of Brown University and a practicing physician; Mary S., wife of Franklin P. Owen, a lawyer by profes- sion; Ruth M., wife of Walter J. Smith, a practicing physician; and Lizzie H., wife of Albert W. Chapman, in the office of W. A. Chap- man & Co., contractors; all of Providence.

Lucius F. C. Garvin, of Cumberland, was born in Knoxville, Tenn., November 13th, 1841. His parents were James A. and Sarah A. (Gunn) Garvin. When our subject was eight years of age his mother removed to Greensboro, N. C., his father, who was a professor in East Tennessee University, having died a year or two before. He was fitted for college in part at a private school in Greensboro, and later at New Garden (now Guilford College), a Friends' boarding school, six miles from his home. At 16 years of age he entered Amherst College, and was graduated from that institution in the class of 1862, and from Harvard Medical School in 1867. Meanwhile he served in the war, enlisting as a private in Company E, 51st Mass. Vols., under General Foster, in North Carolina. He taught school at different times, before and after the war. In the spring of 1867 he began the practice of his profession at Lonsdale, where he still resides. He is medical examiner for District No. 7 (town of Cumberland), and has held the office of moderator of the town of Cumberland for two years, and representative from that town from March 6th, 1883, to May, 1884, and again in 1885 to 1887. In 1880 he entered upon an active propaganda of the extension of suffrage in the state, and in the spring of 1888 had the gratification of witnessing the adoption of an amend- ment to the constitution granting a free suffrage to all adult male citizens in the election of all civil officers excepting members of city councils. In 1889-90 he represented his town in the state legislature as senator. He was married at Middletown, Conn., December 23d, 1869, to Lucy W. Southmayd, and they have three children -- Ethel, Norma and Florence.

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William F. Gleason was born January 1st, 1861, at Milford, Mass., being the son of John and Anne Gleason. He graduated at the gram- mar and high schools of his native town, Exeter Academy and Har- vard Medical School, and settled in Hopkinton, Mass, in the practice of medicine in October, 1885. Thence he removed to Providence in February, 1887, and there continues to practice. He is still un- married.

Mrs. Susan M. Grimwood, M.D., was Miss Susan M. Cooley, a native of Ossipee, N. H. (Stafford county). She commenced her education at Dover, N. H., and finished at Boston, where she married Doctor Fred. Clarke, an English allopathic doctor. After his death she studied medicine a year with Doctor Harrington, and then came to Providence, where she read a year with Doctor Capron, now deceased. This was just before the late war, and when that broke out she be- came interested in hospital work under Doctor Weeden at Ports- mouth Grove and at other hospitals. She married Daniel C. Grimwood in February, 1864. He was in the recruiting service at the beginning of the war, and later was in the quartermaster's department. He died in February, 1889. Her grandfather, John Cooley, came from Holland, and served in the war of the revolution. Her father, Thomas, was the youngest of his five sons. Her mother's maiden name was Williams. Mrs. Grimwood has practiced medicine in Provi- dence now some 35 years. She has two children: Vertine E. Grim- wood, now the wife of N. Hammond of Boston, and a son, F. S. Grim- wood.

John R. Goodale, M.D., was born February 3d, 1837, at West Boylston, Mass., his parents being Norman H. Goodale, a native of Vermont, and Olive Read, daughter of Captain John Read, of West Boylston, where they lived on the farm until the end of their lives. Our subject worked on the farm and studied in Professor May's private school for several years, afterward a high school. He then studied medicine with Doctor Kelley of Worcester, Mass., and later with Wal- ter Burnham of Lowell, Mass. From 1855 to 1858 he studied in the Worcester Medical Institution, and in 1858 began practice at West Boylston. In the following year he removed to Pawtucket, where he has been practicing ever since. In 1871 he attended lectures at the New York Eclectic College of Medicine, and received his degree from that institution. He became a member of the National Eclectic Medical Association in 1871, and served as a delegate to represent this state in that body for 14 years. He was married in 1859, to Addie, eldest daughter of Doctor Davis. Their two children are Addie, now married and living at Oakland, Cal .; and Lillie, now the wife of Frank Perkins and living in Pawtucket.

William Gottschalk, M.D., is the son of Doctor William Von Gotts- chalk, the " Von " now being dropped from the name. The elder was a German exile, and came to this country in 1848, after the revolu-

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tion in that country. He practiced medicine in Providence 35 years. The younger is a graduate of the medical department of Boston Uni- versity, and has practiced medicine at Central Falls since 1877.

William Alpheus Gaylord, M.D., of Pawtucket, was born in West- field, Mass., June 17th, 1826. He took a classical course at Washing- ton Academy, now Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and afterward attended Harvard Medical College, where he graduated in 1848. Doctor Gaylord commenced the practice of medicine at Henniker, · N. H., during the year of his graduation. In the winter of 1849 he settled in Valley Falls, where he remained until 1856, when he re- moved to Pawtucket, and has since that time practiced there.

Johnson Gardner, M.D., in his time a noted physician of Paw- tucket, was born at Rehoboth, Mass., November 22d, 1799, and was the youngest son of James and Susan Gardner. In his early life he taught school in his native town. He commenced the study of medi- cine with Doctor Usher Parsons, of Providence, and graduated from the medical department of Brown University in 1824, after which he commenced the practice of medicine in Pawtucket, during the same year. From that time to 1842 he was one of the most prominent physicians in that town. In the year mentioned he removed to See- konk, now East Providence, where he remained until the winter of 1853-4, when he returned to Pawtucket. In the fall of 1861, having been appointed by President Lincoln and Governor James Y. Smith, medical examiner of the state volunteers of Rhode Island, he opened an office on Benefit street, Providence. He was prominently con- cerned with political affairs, having been a member of the Massachu- setts house of representatives three or four terms, state senator, and member of the governor's council during the administration of Governor Boutwell of Massachusetts. He was appointed by Governor Briggs of Massachusetts as one of three commissioners to settle the boundary line between that state and Rhode Island, and his report was given the preference. He was an honored member of the state and local medical societies wherever he was located. He died at Pawtucket, December 12th, 1869, and left the following family: John A., who was district attorney of the state under President Grant's administration, and died at Providence in the 48th year of his age; Ellen, wife of Joseph A. Bourn, of Providence; Josephine, wife of Lyman B. Frieze, of Providence; Walter S., a resident of Pawtucket; Lenora S., wife of Richard Grinnell, of Providence, and Clarence T., a physician, of the same city.

Edgar Chapman Gates, M.D., was born in Providence, September 18th, 1858. His parents were Elam Horatio, and Elizabeth (Chap- man) Gates. After attending the public schools, at the age of 15 he entered the University Grammar School, and after graduating there entered Brown University in 1877. He commenced the study of medicine in the offices of Doctors Barrow, Wilcox and Green, and

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pursued the study in the University Medical College of the City of New York, graduating therefrom in March, 1881. After being asso- ciated with Doctor Edward Sanford for three months, he opened an office of his own in July, 1881. This was in Attleboro, Mass., where he remained five years, having a fair amount of practice. A favora- ble opening presenting itself he removed to Providence in 1886, and there continues in practice. He is a member of many fraternal socie- ties, and holds honorable or professional positions in most of them.

Simeon Hunt, son of William D. and Lydia (Chase) Hunt, was born in Seekonk, Mass., in 1837. He was educated in part at the Friends' school, at Providence, and entered Dartmouth College in 1858. Graduating from the latter institution in 1862, he studied medi- cine, and graduated from that department in 1864. He was appointed by President Lincoln assistant surgeon of the 69th U. S. Colored In- fantry, in October, 1864. In the spring of 1865 he began the practice of medicine in Corry, Penn., remaining there about three months. He afterward practiced in Springfield, Erie county, Penn., and in the spring of 1868 located in East Providence, where he has since prac- ticed. He was health officer for a number of years, and for a number of years was on the school committee. In July, 1884, he was appoint- ed state medical examiner. He is a member of the local, state and national medical societies, and of several social organizations. His wife was Anna M., daughter of Samuel W. Balch, of Lyme, N. H.

Joseph Hils, M.D., of Woonsocket, was born at St. Grigvire-Le- Grand, Iberville county, Quebec. He graduated at McGill Universi- ty, Montreal, in 1873, and immediately began the practice of medi- cine in Woonsocket. He is a member of the Hospital Staff, and also of the Rhode Island Medical Society, and was for several years presi- dent of the St. John Society.

John R. Harrington, M.D., of Valley Falls, is the eldest son of Pat- rick and Ann Harrington, and was born in Fall River, Mass., Decem- ber 10th, 1849. After attending the local schools he became a stud- ent at the Bryant & Stratton Business College, in Providence. Later he pursued the study of medicine, and in 1877 graduated from Har- vard Medical College. In the same year he commenced the practice of medicine in Pawtucket, and remained there until 1879, when he moved to Central Falls. Thence he moved to Valley Falls in 1883, and there he has since continued to practice. His wife was Jennie Quigley, and their two children are John Edward, and Jennie G. Harrington.

George B. Haines, M.D., of Valley Falls, was born in Northfield, N. H., May 31st, 1843, and was the eldest son of Benjamin and Martha (Kenison) Haines. AAfter attending the local schools he en- tered the New Hampshire Conference Seminary, at Tilton, after which he studied medicine with C. B. Willis, M.D., of Tilton, and with Doctors John H. Clark and Thomas Hilard, of the U. S. Navy.

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From 1865 to 1872 he was in the employ of the U. S. Government, being stationed at Portsmouth, N. H., on board the receiving ships "Vandalia " and "Sabine." In 1870 he graduated from Dartmouth College, where he received his diploma. He commenced the prac- tice of medicine at Valley Falls in 1872, and there he still continues to practice. He is a member of the Rhode Island Medical Society.

George A. Harris, M.D., of Chepachet, is a native of Scituate, where he was born May 19th, 1856. He graduated from the Lapham Institute in the class of 1873, and in 1876 began the study of medi- cine under Doctor Albert Potter, of Chepachet. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York, in the class of 1879. He then commenced practice in the village of Greenville, but in 1880 came to Chepachet, his present field of prac- tice. He married Ella L., daughter of Edward B. Smith, of Scituate.

John Frederick Haller, M.D., was born in Smaland. Sweden, October 16th, 1862. His father was a music teacher as well as a teacher of other branches, in the high school. Our subject received a common school education, and afterward college tuition with a view toward the study of medicine, but he graduated from the com- mercial department and became a bookkeeper and office clerk for several years. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 19, and became organist in the First Lutheran church of Jamestown, N. Y., being at the same time bookkeeper for a wholesale firm. He worked for some time in a piano manufactory at Jamestown, as tuner and regulator. He took a lively interest in politics and held minor ward positions, and bought a Swedish newspaper in 1884 and published it until 18SS. In the meantime he was studying medicine at the Uni- versity of Buffalo, graduating from that institution in 1888. He then sold his newspaper, and removed to Providence, R. I., and began practice, making specialties of diseases of throat and air passages and bowels and liver. In November, 1888, he started the first Swedish newspaper in Rhode Island, The Tiden, and he is also a writer for newspapers and periodicals and a frequent speaker at public meet- ings on temperance, church matters and political questions. He is a member of many social and medical societies. He was married to Adelaide Luther, of Providence, June 11th, 1889.

Doctor Edmund Abbott was born March 12th, 1857, at Winter- port, Maine. He received the degree of Bachelor of Science at the State College of Maine, in 1876, and the degree of M.D. from the medical department of the University of New York City, in 1879. Ile was in successful practice of medicine at Winterport, Me., from 1879 to 1887, and held the office of president of the Waldo County Medical Association in 1885, and of the Penobscot Medical Associa- tion in 1886. He removed to Providence in 1887, where he has be- come a member of the state and city medical societies. His father was Doctor Charles Abbott, who practiced surgery in Maine for 25

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years; grandfather, Doctor Edmund Abbott, practiced 52 years; and great-grandfather was Doctor Ware, of Dighton, Mass.

Sayer Hasbrouck, M.D., was born at Middletown, Orange county, N. Y., June 3d, 1860. His father was John W. Hasbrouck, and his mother Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck. The circumstances of his boyhood were in every way comfortable, and after the usual discipline in the public schools of Middletown he pursued a four years Latin scientific course at Cook Academy, Havana, N. Y., graduating there in 1879. In the following fall he began the study of medicine at Boston Uni- versity School of Medicine, and graduated with the degree of M.D. in June. 1882. While in Boston he was house surgeon of the city dispensary for one year. He spent the next two years abroad, and while there received the degree of " L. M."-Licentiate of Midwifery -from the Rotunda Hospital at Dublin, Ireland. In the same city he was also connected with St. Mark's Eye and Ear Hospital as house surgeon, for nearly a year. He was also clinical assistant, and acting assistant surgeon to Moorfield Ophthalmic House, London, and clini- cal assistant at the Gray's Inn Throat and Ear Hospital of London. After spending some time in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Paris, he re- turned home and located in Providence in July, 1884, devoting him- self specially to diseases of the eye, ear and throat. He was married in Providence, September 25th, 1889, to Mary Owen Fiske, daughter of John T. Fiske, of Chepachet. He has been connected as ophthal- mic surgeon with the Rhode Island Homeopathic Hospital since its organization, and as consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Providence Homeopathic Dispensary. He was one of the active organizers of the Rhode Island Yacht Club, was for three years its president and is at present its commodore. He is a member of the Rhode Island and New York state medical societies and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. Besides being a mem- ber of various social and charitable organizations, and a contribu- tor to American literature, he is a member of the Holland Society of New York, a society of Dutch Knickerbockers whose ancestry came to this country previous to the year 1675.

Doctor J. Philip Henriques was born in New London, Conn., July 23d. 1856. His parents were John A. Henriques, a captain in the U. S. Marine service, and Ellen Stoddard. He attended the common schools until 12 years of age, then took the trip to San Francisco, around Cape Horn. At 14 he entered the high school at New Britain, Conn., and completing the four years' course, entered Vale College at 20. He left the regular course at 23, and entered the Medical School of Valc, where he graduated as valedictorian at the age of 26. He then entered the New Haven General Hospital as surgeon, and graduated and remained two years, after which he en- gaged in private practice in New Haven for two years. In 1881 he went to Vienna, Austria, where he spent three years in the hospital,

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returning in 1884. He then entered private practice in Providence, where he has been ever since.

Artemus Johnson, M.D., was among the first physicians of Paw- tucket. He was born in Sherborn. Mass., in 1780. He married the widow of Doctor Addington Davenport, and had one son, Samuel, who died young. Doctor Johnson was one of the most noted physi- cians of his day, his practice extending throughout all the adjoining towns. He died December 29th, 1827. His residence, an old fash- ioned house, is still standing on the corner of Summit and Vernon streets, in Pawtucket.

Francis Johnson, M. D., of Pawtucket, is a native of Ireland, and was born August 16th, 1835. He came to America in 1847, and studied medicine with Doctor Sylvanus Clapp, after which he attended a course of lectures at Harvard Medical College, and still later gradu- ated from the medical department of the University of Vermont, in 1865. He practiced medicine in Providence and Woonsocket, and in Pawtucket since 1872.

George W. Jenckes, M.D., was born in that part of Cumberland now Woonsocket, August 17th, 1829. His parents were George and Abigail Jenckes. His father was one of the earliest cotton mantifac- turers in the town, and continued the business for about 40 years. Our subject enjoyed the usual facilities of life and education in his youthful years previous to 1845, when he entered an academny at Worcester, and prepared for college, entering Brown University in 1847. Thence he graduated in 1851, receiving the degree of A.B. He immediately began the study of medicine, and graduated as an M.D. at Harvard University in 1854. He settled at once in practice at Woonsocket, securing a good patronage, and has continued there until the present time. He is chief of staff of the Woonsocket Hos- pital, in the erection of which he was actively interested, and is in active service there. He has always been largely interested in edu- cational matters, and for more than 20 years was an active member of the school committee. Political offices he has declined to hold, with the exception of member of town council. of which board he has been president two years. He has been associated in the manage- ment of several business enterprises, and at one time was president of the Bailey Wringing Machine Company, one of the largest of its kind in the country. In 1859 he married Martha A. Hunt, of Black- stone, Mass., by whom he has had four children, all of whom are liv- ing. They are Frank H. Jenckes, M.D., practicing in Franklin, Mass .; Waldo W. Jenckes, treasurer of Milford Shoe Company; Clara H.and Earle Jenckes. By appointment of International Congress of Physi- cians in Philadelphia in 1876, he was one of a committee to secure the creation of a state board of health in Rhode Island, of which he was a member for many years. He has held the position of health officer in his native town and city for many years, and is actively interested

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in sanitary matters, having written several articles on the subject, and is often consulted in regard thereto.

Michael W. Kelliher, M.D., was born in Palmer, Mass., February 20th, 1861. After graduating from the high school in that town he attended the University of Vermont, and afterward pursued a medical course in the University of the City of New York. Graduating from that institution in March, 1886, he studied at the New York Polyclinic and Post Graduate School till July 1st of the same year, and then located in Pawtucket, where he is still practicing. He is a member of state and Providence medical societies, and of the Pawtucket school board from November 5th, 1889, for a term of three years.

Edward N. Kingsbury. M.D., of Woonsocket, was born at Frances- town, N. H., September 7th, 1858. His parents were John L. and Abigail (Hyde) Kingsbury. He was educated in the district school. at Francestown Academy, and New London Literary and Scientific Institute, and graduated at Amherst College and Hahnemann Medi- cal College of Philadelphia. He began practice in 1880, at Spencer, Mass., and came to Woonsocket in 1885. He was married in 1881, to Clara A. Coffin of Newton Centre, Mass., and they have three child- ren-Newell C., Mabel and Mary B.

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History of Providence County, Rhode Island, Volume I, Part 15

Author: Bayles, Richard M. (Richard Mather), ed Publication date: 1891 Publisher: New York, W. W. Preston Number of Pages: 1036

Author: Bayles, Richard M. (Richard Mather), ed
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: New York, W. W. Preston
Number of Pages: 1036