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After receiving the final honors, he went at once to
Westboro, Massachusetts,
where he obtained a situation as teacher in the State Reform School. He considered his
initiation into the duties of that institution as rather severe, as one of his first
experiences was to have a slate, minus the frame, hurled playfully at his head by one of
the boys, who has since committed murder. He became master of the situation, however,
and thenceforward only encountered the annoyances incident to such an institution.
During his leisure hours here, he commenced the study of medicine. In October, 1865,
he went to New York, and attended his first course of lectures at the University Medical
College. At the end of the course, in February, 1866, he went to Farmington, New
Hampshire, and took charge of the High School there for six months. During this period,
he continued to read medicine in the office of N. A. Hersom, M.D. At the
commencement of the next Winter term, in October, 1866, he returned to New York to
resume his studies. In March, 1867, he received his diploma affirming the fact that he
was duly qualified to practise medicine and "deal in die stuffs." He remained in New
York for two months, attending clinics at the various hospitals. About the first of June,
1867, he opened an office for the practice of his profession at Ballardvale, a
manufacturing village in the town of Andover, Massachusetts. He remained there until
he saw a desirable opening at West Newton, Massachusetts, to which place he removed
in September, 1868. He continued in practice here until October, 1874, when he removed
to Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, where he has continued in the practice of his
profession up to the present time, with good success; even being successful as the
defendant in a suit for malpractice, which, after two years' litigation, has been recently
decided in his favor.
He was Secretary of his district Medical Society for four years, and is now one of
the Board of Censors. In the Fall of 1875, he had a severe attack of sickness, supposed
to be consumption, which kept him from work for five months. Since recovering from
that, he has enjoyed much better health than for ten years preceding.
His religious preferences may be inferred when it is stated that he is a deacon in
the Prospect-street Congregational Church. In politics, he is a Republican.
He was married June 30, 1868, to Miss Caroline L. Cooper, of Andover,
Massachusetts. They have four children: Alfred Hastings, born November 21, 1871; E.
Cleveland, born August 23, 1874; Marian Cooper, born November 26, 1877; Caroline
Marcia, born August 15, 1882.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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