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After leaving college, in the Summer of 1862, he made a sea-voyage of two
months for the benefit of his health. Upon his return, he went to Washington, D.C., with
the expectation of entering the Service as Hospital Steward; but being disappointed in
that, he made application for a position in the United States Sanitary Commission, which
he secured about eighteen months after reaching Washington. He was sent with General
Banks on the Red River Campaign, and thence to New Orleans, Louisiana, to inspect
the camps and hospitals in that Department, which service he performed until
November, 1864, when he was taken with a severe attack of diphtheria. His recovery was
only partial, and he was sent home on a furlough, and finally left the Service in the
Spring of 1865. He then went to Peterborough, New Hampshire, and became Principal of
the Academy there, and at the same time pursued the study of medicine. He went to
Hanover, New Hampshire, in the Summer of 1867, and attended his final course of
lectures at Dartmouth Medical College, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine in
the Fall of that year. He began the practice of his profession immediately, at West
Townsend, Massachusetts, where he remained until 1870, when he removed to
Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has continued in practice up to the present time,
doing a very large and lucrative business.
In June, 1878, he took a trip to Europe, being absent about five months, during
which time he visited England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland
and Italy. In the Summer of 1883, he made a visit to Dakota, and made some pecuniary
investments. He is President of the Dakota Mortgage Loan Corporation, of Milnor,
Dakota, the Eastern office of which is at 296 Washington street, Boston, Massachusetts.
He was married March 4, 1864, to Miss Achsah B. Collum, of Temple, New
Hampshire. They have three children: John Lewis, born in August, 1870; Beulah G.,
born in June, 1873, and Alfred H., born in September, 1874.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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