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Subject: [MAMiddle] Early Physicians of Groton, Mass. Part 6
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:17:53 EDT
An Historical Sketch of Groton, Massachusetts 1655-1890
by Dr. Samuel A. Green, Groton, 1894.
Dr. Norman Smith.
Dr. Norman Smith was the son of Jesse and Nabby (Kittredge) Smith and born
at Mount Vernon, New Hampshire
on october 13, 1811. He graduated at the Vermont Medical College,
Woodstock, in the class of 1843 and
began to practice medicine at Groton, where he passed his whole professional
life, with the exception of
four years spent in Nashua, New Hampshire. In April 1861, at the outbreak
of the Rebellion (Civil War)
he went out as surgeon of the Sixth Massachusetts Militia Regiment and was
with that famous organization
on its march through Baltimore and during its first campaign of three
months. He was a member of the
Union Congregational Church, and prominent in all matters connected with the
welfare of the town. His
death took place at his farm on Common Street, on May 24, 1888, and the
funeral, on May 28th, was con-
ducted under Masonic rites.
Dr. Smith was married (1) on May 3, 1838 to Harriet, daughter of John &
Lydia Sleeper, of
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Francestown, New Hampshire, who died September 2, 1839. He m. (2) on
November 6, 1843, Mariett Sleeper,
sister of his first wife, who died on July 6, 1846; he m. (3) on September
22, 1847, Abigail Maria, dau.
of Ephraim & Sarah (King) Brown of Wilton, New Hampshire, who died on July
17, 1852. He m. (4) on Sept.
12, 1853, Sarah Young, dau. of Solomon & Dorcas (Hopkins) Frost who died on
Dec. 4, 1856 and (5) on
Sept 11, 1866, to Mrs. Mary Jane (King) Lee, dau. of Daniel & Rebecca
(Parmenter) King of Rutland, Mass.
Dr. Lemuel Fuller.
Dr. Lemuel Fuller was a son of Dr. Lemuel and Mary (Shepherd) Fuller and
born at Marlborough on April 2,
1811. He graduated at the Vermont Medical College, Woodstock, in the class
of 1844, and came to Groton,
from Harvard in the year 1847. On June 6, 1844, he was married to Catherine
Palliseur dau. of Francis &
Maria Foster (Palliseur) Barrett of Concord. Dr. Fuller left Groton in
1850, and died at Harvard, Mass.
during a temporary visit from home February 11, 1864. During the last ten
years of his life he lived at
North Weymouth.
Dr. Miles Spaulding.
Dr. Miles Spaulding was a son of Capt. Isaac and Lucy (Emery) Spaulding and
born at Townsend, Mass., on
April 4, 1819. He graduated at the Berkshire Medical Institution,
Pittsfield, in the class of 1842, and
he soon afterward established himself at Dunstable, where he remained until
the year 1851, when he removed to Groton. Dr. Spaulding was married first, on
January 12, 1848, to Sophia Louisa, daughter of
Aaron and Lucinda (Munson) Miller of New Haven,
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Connecticut, who died September 4, 1852; and m. (2) on August 27, 1863, Mary
Mehetable, the only child of
Stephen and Mary (Kilborn-French) Stickney. He still lives at Groton, the
senior physician of the town.
Dr. Peter Pineo.
Dr. Peter Pineo is a son of Peter and Sarah (Steadman) Pineo and was born at
Cornwallis, Nova Scotia,
on March 6, 1825. He graduated at the Bowdoin Medical School in the class of
1847, and was married in
Boston, on May 8, 1850 to Elizabeth, daughter of Kendall and Betsey (Hill)
Crosby. In the spring of
1853, he came to Groton, where he remained for two years, after which time
he removed to Quechee, a
village in the town of Hartford, Vermont. On June 11, 1861 he was
commissioned as surgeon of the Ninth
Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and soon afterward promoted to a brigade
surgeoncy, which office was
abolished on July 2, 1862 by an Act of Congress, when officers of that rank
became surgeons of the United
States Volunteers. On February 9, 1863 he was made medical inspector,
United States Army, with the rank
of Lieutenant-Colonel, and he served with distinction until the end of the
war. At the present time he is
a resident of Boston.
Dr. Kendall Davis.
Dr. Kendall Davis was a son of Joseph and Hannah Davis and born at New
Ipswich, New Hampshire on Dec.
4, 1802. According to the State Register of the years 1847-50, he was then
living at Groton, where he
practices for a short time. From this town he went to Athol, and died at
Templeton on September 20, 1875.
Dr. Richard Upton Piper.
Dr. Richard Upton Piper is a son of Samuel and
p.112.
Mary (Folsom) Piper, and was born at Stratham, New Hampshire. He graduated
at the Dartmouth Medical
School in the class of 1840, and began the practice of his professtion at
Portland, Maine, where he
was married on November 8, 1841 to Elizabeth Frances Folsom, a native of
Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
In the year 1864 he came to Groton and remained five years, though without
engaging in the active
practice of medicine. He afterward lived in Chicago, but is now a resident
of Washington. He is an
author of some note having written a work entitled, "Operative Surgery
Illustrated," and another on
"The Trees of America."
Dr. Joseph Franklin Coolidge.
Dr. Joseph Franklin Coolidge, was a son of Charles and Nancy (Spaulding)
Coolidge, and born at West-
minster on Sept 11, 1837. He graduated at the Harvard Medical School in the
class of 1862, and in the
year 1864 came to Groton, where he remained until his death, which took
place on June 1, 1865. Dr.
Coolidge was one of a family of ten children, and was never married.
Dr. William Ambrose Webster.
Dr. William Ambrose Webster was the only son of William Gordon Webster and
wife, Susan (Ambrose) Webster,
and born at Rochester, New Hampshire, June 13, 1830. He graduated at the
Medical School of the Long
Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York in the spring of 1862. Soon
after graduation, on July 1, 1862
he was commissioned as surgeon of the Ninth New Hampshire Volunteers, which
left for the seat of war on
August 25, 1862 and he continued in that capacity until January 5, 1865,
when he was honorably discharged. In September of that year he came to Groton
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where he remained during three years, when he removed to Westford. He died
at Manchester, New Hampshire
on February 8, 1887. Dr. Webster was twice married - (1) in August, 1851 to
Mary Anne Kaime, of Pitts-
field, N.H. and (2) on Aug 9, 1858 to Marion M. Ladd, of Middlesex, VT. By
the first marriage two daught-
ers were born, who both are now living and by the 2nd marriage, one
daughter, Susan Marion Webster, who
was born at Groton on June 25, 1866. She died soon after her father.
Dr. David Roscoe Steere.
Dr. David Roscoe Steere is a son of Scott and Mary (Mathewson) Steere and
was born at Lisbon, Conn.,
April 27, 1847. He graduated at Dartmouth Medical School in the class of
1871, and after graduation,
practiced for a few months at Savory. In July, 1872, he came to Groton,
where he has since remained;
and in the year 1878 he built the house at the corner of Main and Church
streets which he now occupies.
On June 18, 1873 Dr. Steere was married to Adelia, daughter of Jeptha and
Betsey (Boynton) Hartwell.
To be continued Part 7
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
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