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Albert Mason Knapp, M.D., was born in Lyman, N. H., October 14th, 1842. He was educated in the public schools of Racine, Wiscon- sin, was a member of the Normal school of that state, and taught school for two years. A considerable part of his boyhood was passed in the state of Maine, much of it at Kendall's Mills. He graduated from the University of Michigan, taking the degree of M.D., with the class of 1865. After graduating he practiced in Racine, and then in Chicago, up to the time of the conflagration of 1871, when his office and much other property being destroyed by the fire, he availed him- self of an offer to associate with a physician in Lowell, Mass. He soon left that field and practiced for two years in Manchester, N. H. HIe located in Providence about 16 years ago, and has remained in practice there ever since. He is a member of the medical societies, and professionally represents several benevolent organizations. He was married in 1865, to Kittie A., daughter of Thomas W. Crane, an old resident of Chicago. The marriage was performed in Dubuque, lowa. They have two children -- Kittie Mabel and George H. The father of Doctor Knapp, Doctor Horace Knapp, was born in King- field, Me., was a school teacher in early life, afterward a Universalist minister, and finally a physician and lecturer on medical and other subjects. His wife, the mother of Doctor A. M. Knapp, was Lucretia Dickenson, daughter of a New Hampshire farmer.
Eugene Pride King, physician and surgeon, of Providence, was born November 5th, 1854, at Apponaug, R. I., son of Absalom Pride King. He was educated in the Providence public schools, the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut, at Cheshire, in the class
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of 1872, at Brown University in the class of 1876, at the medi- cal department of the University of Vermont, and at Jefferson Medical College, from which he graduated in March, 1880. He im- mediately began practice in Providence. His father, Absalom P. King, was the son of Dan and Cynthia King, whose maiden name was Pride. Absalom was born in Preston, Conn .. May 1st, 1820. From the Berkshire Medical Institution he was licensed to practice by the censors of the Massachusetts Medical Society, in November, 1845. He married Celia Ann Hendrick, on Christmas day, 1845. He practiced first at Woonsocket, then at Providence, where he died October 16th, 1868. His children and the dates of their births are as follows: Ase- nath Caroline, September 19th, 1846 (died November 20th, 1850); Wil- liam Henry Herbert, November Sth. 1850 (died May 31st, 1853); Eugene Pride, November 5th, 1854; and Virginia May, April 28th, 1859 (died October 11th, 1861). The children of Dan and Cynthia King were: John, merchant: Absalom, physician; Thomas Knight, lawyer; Howard Williams, physician; Jane Knight, married Alex- ander Williams; Henry Clay, physician; Charles Phillips, merchant; Huldah Maria, wife of James Winsor; George Augustus, lawyer; Wil- liam Brewster; and Mary Stanton, wife of James Pitts.
John Henry Kingman. M.D., of Pawtucket, was born in New Bed- ford, Mass., May 13th, 1860. After attending the local schools of his native city he entered Yale College in 1878, and graduated from there in 1882. He then commenced the study of medicine with Doctor A. Martin Pierce, of New Bedford, Mass., and in 1885 received the degree of M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City. For a year and a half he was on the staff of Bellevue Hospital, part of that time being house physician. He commenced the private practice of medicine in 1876, at New Bedford, of which place he was city surgeon for two years. He removed to Pawtucket in 1889.
Joseph Lariviere, M.D., was born in St. Alexander, Province of Quebec, Canada, October 16th, 1849. He attended St. Mary's Acad- emy, also Victoria College, of Montreal, and graduated from the American Medical College, at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1879. He com- menced the practice of medicine in Manville, in 1874, and is still located there.
Doctor Byron J. Lillibridge was born in East Greenwich, R. I., Wednesday, October 3d, 1860. His father was Jesse R., and his mother Mary C. Lillibridge. The family moved to Warwick in 1863. and for the 18 years following lived upon a farm. Young Byron meanwhile attended the public school of the district until he reached the age of 14, when he entered Greenwich Academy, where he was a regular attendant for the six years following, taking first the English course, then the commercial, and finally the Latin scientific, which he completed and received a diploma in 1880. During the last year of his course he entered the office of Doctor James H. Eldredge, and
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began the study of medicine. He matriculated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. in the fall of 1880, and received his degree from that college in March, 1883. He returned to Rhode Island and for a few months attended some of his preceptor's night practice. In the summer he located at Pascoag and remained there six months. He then removed to Providence, succeeding to the practice of the late Uriah H. Holbrook, M.D., at No. 716 North Main street, where he has ever since remained. He was made a member of the city and state medical societies in 1884, and was elected physician to the out- patient department of the Rhode Island Hospital in 1886, occupying that position still. He was married December 25th, 1885, in Scituate, Mass., to Gertrude Vinal, and they have two children-Ethel V., born : October 18th, 1886; and Marjorie V., born May 26th, 1889.
Augustine A. Mann, M.D., was born October 15th, 1837, at Ran- dolph, Mass. He was admitted at Harvard and Jefferson Medical Col- lege, and graduated from the latter March 12th, 1860. He then settled in Valley Falls, R. I., May 10th, 1860. He was appointed assistant surgeon in the First R. I. Cavalry, June 7th, 1862, and dis- charged November 18th, 1864. In the meantime he was a prisoner in Libby Prison, from June 17th, 1863, to November 18th, 1863, hav- ing been captured at Middlebury, Va., on the date first mentioned. He settled in Central Falls. December 3d, 1864, where he has re- inained to the present time. He was married to Sarah T. Bucklin, June 6th, 1865, and has four children, two boys and two girls.
Doctor Joseph C. Maranda was born November 27th, 1846, at St. Simon, Bagot county. Quebec. His parents were Charles and Sera- phine Duhaime Maranda. He was educated at St. Hyacinthe, and graduated in Quebec Laval University, in 1875. He practiced at St. Norbert and St. Christophe, Arthabaska county, Quebec, and in Woonsocket from 1879 to the present time. He was married to Cleophcé Amanda Cadieux, September 27th, 1875.
Martha H. Mowry, M.D .. was born in Providence, June 7th, 1818. She was the daughter of Thomas Mowry, a merchant, and Martha Harris Mowry. Her mother died when she was eight weeks old, but her father lived to the good old age of 86. Miss Martha in her infant years was an attendant at the girls' schools of two excellent teachers Miss Sterry and Miss Chace. When nearly seven years of age she was sent to an academy in care of a Methodist minister's widow, Mrs. Walker, and in the spring before she was nine years old she was sent to the Friends' Yearly Meeting Boarding School in Providence, where she remained four or five years. She then attended boarding schools for young ladies kept by Latham and Winsor. While at the latter school she was prostrated by fright and over exertion, being pursued by strange men so that she and two other girls were obliged to run a distance of a mile and a quarter to reach the school. Heart debility, aggravated by this, retarded her progress four years. Later she was
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a student in the Green Street Select School when Margaret Fuller, afterward "Countess Ossili," was a prominent teacher. She pursued her studies after leaving school and while engaged in overseeing the domestic work of the household composed of her father and herself. In 1844, chiefly heeding suggestions of physicians who at different times had noticed her manifest interest in anatomy and physiology and cognate branches, she began to study in these directions, with a purpose. At this time no woman was admitted into medical colleges, and a strong current of professional prejudice opposed the admission of the sex into practice. Against this tide Miss Mowry and the few women who dared to face it were obliged to press their way. But even at the time of which we speak she had not formed the intention of publicly practicing medicine. She improved such opportunities as were within her reach, having access to the libraries of practicing physicians, and reviewing with them, at different times with Doctors Briggs, Fabyan, Fowler and Mauran, until they told her that she only needed opportunities for dissection beyond what skeleton or manakin could show. She then studied under the direction of Doctor De Bonne- ville and his wife, who were professors in magnetism, and he in homeopathy, and when, in 1849, they removed from the city they gave her a testimonial expressing their confidence in her ability to treat diseases. About 1850 she spent six months in close study in Boston, under the supervision of Doctor Cornell, a physician of good standing there. About that time Doctor Paige came to Provi- dence as a lecturer and instructor in electropathy, and formed a class for instruction. She joined that class, also took private lessons, and in due time received a diploma for faithful study and attainment. By special requests of friends she subsequently gave many lectures before physiological societies and in different villages. In recogni- tion of such services and their appreciation she received, in 1851, a silver cup from the Providence Physiological Society, and later me- mentoes from other societies. Her superior attainments thus be- came known and her reputation extended throughout a wider sphere than she knew. In 1853 she was visited by a committee from Phila- delphia Female Medical College, then an institution of three or four years growth, and without making known their purpose to her, in the course of an informal interview with her, investigated her knowledge of kindred subjects until they were abundantly satisfied of her attain- ments, and on their return she received from the college a diploma conferring upon her the degree of M.D., with signatures of the col- lege faculty, which was of the allopathic school. This was followed, a week later, by an appointment to a professorship of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania. With great reluctance her father consented that she should go to Philadelphia to occupy the position offered, and she did so, in 1853-4, but returned to Providence at the wish of her
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father. She then began regular practice here. Her father presented her with a horse and chaise, and since then, for nearly 40 years, she has constantly kept one or two horses in use in her rounds of prac- tice. In 1880 she partially retired from practice, but the demands upon her seemed so pressing that she consented in 1882 to resume work under limitations absolving her from going out nights except in extreme cases. She is still doing all the professional work it is well for one of her age to do, and is especially interested in educat- ing mothers to a knowledge of the laws of life, physical, mental and spiritual.
Charles F. Marston, M.D., son of John L. and Hannah F. Marston, was born in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1863. In his early years his parents moved to Manchester, N. H., where he lived three years, and then removed to Rhode Island. His early business years were spent in a grocery. He was educated in Baltimore (Md.) College, and graduated in medicine March 15th, 1888, and on the first of the following No- vember he opened an office for practice in Providence, and has thus far been very successful.
Elmer E. Moore, M.D., was born in Hartford, Vermont, October 10th. 1861. His parents were Doctor David Comstock Moore and his wife, Hannah A. When our subject was about ten months old he removed with his parents to South Royalton, Vermont, where his father practiced medicine, and during part of the time was interested in the drug business in the place. The elder served during part of the war as a volunteer surgeon, located most of the time at Point Lookout, Maryland, and at the close of the war returned to South Royalton, remaining there till 1872, removing then to Charlestown, N. H., carrying on the apothecary business there awhile, and return- ing to South Royalton, where he died October 9th, 1876. After his death the family, consisting of the widow and two sons, James S. and Elmer E., removed to Boston. Here the subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools, and after passing the high school spent two years in the famous Eliot School at Jamaica Plain. After leav- ing school he spent nearly five years in the drug business in Vermont and later in Boston. At the latter place he attended the Massachu- setts College of Pharmacy. In 1883 he began the study of medicine, in 1885 entered the medical department of the University of Vermont at Burlington, and from there went to the medical department of Dartmouth College, where he graduated in June, 1886. In the fol- lowing September he located at East Providence Centre, where he has met with considerable success, being surrounded in domestic affairs by his mother and brother James.
Le Roy Albert Merrill, M.D., was born in Roxbury, Vt., May 23d, 1855. He was the eldest son of Albert and Adelina (Young) Merrill. After attending the district schools he was sent to Barre Academy (\'t.), and afterward took a classical course at the University of Ver-
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mont. He studied medicine with Doctor Le Roy Bingham, of Bur- lington, Vt., and graduated, after a full course of lectures, in 1882, from the medical department of the University of Vermont. He commenced the practice of medicine at St. Albans, Vt., in 1882, and came to Lonsdale in 1884, where he still practices.
Dennis McCaffrey was born in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, in April, 1844. He came to America wlien he was ten months old with his parents, Owen and Catherine McCaffrey. After attending school at Woonsocket eight years he moved to Martinsburgh, Pike county, Ill., in April, 1865. He finished his preliminary education at Illinois College, Jacksonville, in 1867; taught school in Pike county. Ill., four years; studied medicine with Doctor John A. Thomas, of Pleasant Hill, and Doctor Joseph H. Ledlie, of Pittsfield, three years; entered St. Louis Medical College, Mo., in September, 1871, and graduated from that institution in 1874. He came to North Smithfield in Decem- ber. 1874, and has since resided and practiced medicine in that place. He was married to Catherine J. Rowan, September 5th, 1877, in St. Paul's Catholic church, Blackstone, Mass. They have six children: Charles W., John F., Hugo E., Veronica, Thomas a'Kempis and Mary Catherine; the last one being born December 22d, 1889.
Napoleon Malo, M.D., was born in St. Marc, Province of Quebec, Canada, September 29th, 1857. His father was Claus Malo, a well-to- do farmer of the place, who has served four years in Parliament, as a member of the general assembly representing the county of Ver- chères. His mother was Elionore Supierre. Attending in his youth a school kept by his uncle in the vicinity of his home, he was prepared at the age of nine to follow a classical course at St. Hyacinthe College, to which he was sent. There he continued until about the middle of the fifth year, while in the class of belles-lettres, his course was ar- rested by order of the physician, who saw gathering symptoms of pulmonary difficulty in the young student. He then went into the employ and at the same time under the instruction of his uncle, Joseph Caderre, a merchant in the parish of St. Antoine, where he worked in the store, and took lessons of his uncle, who was a highly educated man, having passed a full nine years' course in St. Hyacinthe College and studied for the priesthood two years and a half. He also had the help of the curate of the parish toward completing his classical course. He studied and received his degree of M.D. at the Victoria Medical College of Montreal in the spring of 1879. He has been practicing for some time in Pawtucket and is about changing his residence to Central Falls. He married Miss Odelie Bernier of Providence, in the fall of 1881.
Miles Manchester, M.D., was born in the town of Cranston, Octo- ber 4th, 1777, and died in Pawtucket, June 15th, 1843. He was the son of Job Manchester. Commencing the study of medicine with Doctor Benjamin Dyer, in 1793, after three years spent with him he
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continued the study with Doctor Caleb Fiske of Scituate until the year 1800, when he returned to his father's home in Cranston and commenced the practice of medicine. In 1802 he removed to Johns- ton, where he married Phebe, daughter of Pardon Fenner. In August, 1806, he removed to Pawtucket, where he continued the practice of medicine till his death. He was a charter member of the Rhode Island Medical Society. At his death he left three children, none of whom are now living.
Charles F. Manchester, M.D., was born in Pawtucket, February 7th, 1805, being the son of Doctor Miles and Phebe Fenner Manches- ter. After attending the local schools he entered the Episcopal Acad- emy at Cheshire, Conn., and graduated from Brown University in September, 1825. He received his degree of M. D., from Harvard Medical College, in August, 1828 After practicing according to the allopathic system for eleven years he embraced the principles of homeopathy in 1840, and was one of the founders of the American Institution of Homeopathy. He began his labors as a physician in Pawtucket, afterward practiced in Providence and in New York city, but returned to Pawtucket in 1842, and practiced there until his death, April 5th, 1878. He was twice married: first to Amelia Ames, of Providence, by whom he had three children-Susan A., wife of Latham H. Clarke, of Brooklyn; Charles Miles, now of New York; and Maria L., wife of A. Boyd Shedan, of Brooklyn; and second to Kate E. Le Valley, of Pawtucket, by whom he had no children. Doc- tor Manchester became a member of the Rhode Island Medical Society in 1838, and was surgeon of the Pawtucket Life Guard. He was the first president of the First National Bank of Pawtucket.
Thomas Henry McNally, M.D., was born in Cranston, March 7th, 1855. After leaving the public schools he attended La Salle Acad- emy, at Providence, and then studied medicine with Doctors T. G. and W. W. Potter, of that city. He then took two courses of lectures at Detroit, Mich., Medical College, and two more at the University of Burlington, Vt., graduating in 1886. He began the practice of medi- cine at Central Falls in 1887.
Joseph E. V. Mathieu, M.D., of Central Falls, was born in St. Bar- nabe, Province of Quebec, August 8th, 1856. He took a classical course at St. Hyacinthe, and in 1876 entered Victoria Medical College, Montreal, where he graduated in 1879. In the spring of the same year he began the practice of medicine in Central Falls, where he now resides. He is a member of the Rhode Island Medical Society.
Willian C. Monroe, M.D., was born in Woonsocket in 1850. He was educated at Woonsocket High School, at the Friends' School, of Prov- idence, and at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York city, where he graduated in 1876. He began the practice of medicine in Woonsocket the same year. He was for a number of years connected with the school board, and is now a member of the hospital staff. He
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married Carrie M., daughter of William W. Remington, of Phenix, in 1876.
Doctor Thomas Nutting, of Georgiaville, was a prominent mem- ber of his profession in the town of Smithfield for many years. He was a self-made man, and possessed a great deal of energy. He was a prominent supporter of the Universalist church at the place men- tioned. After having practiced medicine at Georgiaville about 40 years he died there in the spring of 1886, at the ripe age of 76 years.
Asa Harden Nickerson, the only child of Captain Asa W. and Ruth A. Nickerson, was born July 1st, 1854, in South Dennis, Barn- stable county, Mass. He was the eighth generation from William Nickerson of Norwich, Norfolk county, England, who was born 1604, arrived in Boston June 20th, 1637, and is supposed to have settled on Cape Cod in 1639. From the original in this country down to our subject the genealogical line of descent is as follows: William, Nicho- las, John, John, John, Harden, Asa W., Asa Harden. The boyhood of Asa Harden was spent attending the district school of the village until 16 years of age. He graduated from the New Hampton Liter- ary and Biblical Institution, of New Hampton, N. H., July 2d, 1873, and the next year taught a grammar school in the town of Harwich, Mass. He moved to Providence in 1875, afterward took a special course of instruction, worked in a drug store at odd times, studied in the office of the late Doctors Capron & Perry, and graduated from Harvard Medical School June 28th, 1882. He settled in Central Falls in the fall of the same year. He is a prominent member of several social benefit societies. He was married to Carrie Evelyn Bunker, daughter of Cyrus E. Bunker, at Bethlehem, N. H., October 12th, 1887.
Doctor Robert Fanning Noyes was born in South Kingstown, R. I., February 8th, 1850. He was the oldest son of Thomas W. and Julia Elma Noyes. His mother's maiden name was Julia Elma Allen, daughter of Reverend Joseph W. Allen, of North Kingstown, R. I. Born and reared on a farm, he attended the country schools of Kings- town, was a private pupil of Reverend J. Hogadorn Wells, attended Providence Conference Seminary of East Greenwich, the Literary In- stitution of Suffield, Conn., and Friends' School of Providence. At the age of 19 he began the study of medicine with Job Kenyon, M.D., of Providence; in 1870-71 attended lectures at Harvard Medical Col- lege; in 1871-73 attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city, and graduated thence in February, 1873. He began the practice of medicine in Providence in December of the same year, and has been in continuous practice there ever since, hav- ing served as physician to the department of out-patients of the Rhode Island Hospital for a number of years, and from 1882 to the present time as visiting physician to the same institution. May 15th, 18SS, he married Miss Katharine H. Gifford, of Providence. He is
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vice-president of the Providence Medical Association, and 2d vice- president of the Rhode Island Medical Society.
Clement D. O'Leary, M.D., son of Charles and Louise O'Leary, was born in New Haven in 1864. He pursued the course in Brown Uni- versity, receiving the degrees of A.B. and A.M., the latter in 1884. He was afterward educated in the professional direction at the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, where he received the degree of M.D. in 1887. He was house surgeon to the Rhode Island Hospital in 1887-8, and is now in private practice at corner of Plane and Public streets, Providence.
John A. O'Keefe, M.D., was born in Grafton, Worcester county, Mass., March 17th, 1863, and was named after the great war governor of Massachusetts, John Andrews. His parents were Thomas and Elizabeth O'Keefe. He spent his first 15 years on a farm, attending the district school in the winters meanwhile. At the age of 13 he entered the grammar school of Grafton, four miles distant from home, walking the distance daily. When he was 15 years of age the family moved to Worcester, and he entered the high school there, remaining until within one year of graduation, when he left it to learn a trade. He soon after abandoned that and took up the study of medicine, with Doctor James Sullivan as preceptor. He afterward entered the Long Island College Hospital. of Brooklyn, N. Y., from which he graduated in June, 1884. During the summer of that year he prac- ticed at Norwich, Conn., but left there in October, to take a course in foreign hospitals. He spent eight months abroad, visiting the prin- cipal hospitals in Great Britain and on the continent, being in Italy during the cholera epidemic of 1884 and 1885. Returning to New York he was appointed one of the house and ambulance surgeons at the Eastern District Hospital, which position he held until he re- signed to engage in practice at Providence. He is now practicing in Providence, and is a member of numerous medical, literary and social societies.
Emma A. Phillips, M.D., of Pawtucket, was born at Medfield, Mass., August 25th, 1844. She was the daughter of Reverend Daniel WV. Phillips, D.D., a Baptist minister, a native of Carmarthen county, Wales; and her mother was Elizabeth Cross, of Beverly, Mass. She (Emma) was educated in the public schools of Wakefield, and at home, during her girlhood and youth, after which she taught school in the city of Nashville, Tenn., in county schools, and for eight years was. a teacher of music and some other branches in Roger Williams University, Nashville, Tenn. Her medical education was obtained at the Boston University School of Medicine, and she settled in prac- tice first at Taunton, Mass., from July, 1881, to June, 1883, and since that time has been practicing in Pawtucket. She removed to Nash- ville, Tenn., with her parents in 1865, and returned to New England for medical education in October, 1878, after having studied for two years under Doctor J. P. Dake of Nashville.
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