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He severed his connection with that class at the end of Freshman year, on account of ill health, and
re-entered in the Fall of 1861, joining our class as a Sophomore. A strong desire to enter
the army induced him to abandon his college course, and he left us in November, 1862.
In December, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company A, Fifty-third Regiment,
Massachusetts Volunteers. At the charge on Port Hudson, June 14, 1863, he was
wounded in the right eye. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Fifty-seventh
Regiment, Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers, in October, 1863; was promoted to First
Lieutenant in October, 1864, and to Captain in May, 1865. He served, as Aide-de-Camp
and Provost-Marshal on the staff of Major-General Nelson A. Miles, and was made
Brevet-Major for gallant and meritorious services. By a special order of the War
Department, he served for a year after the close of the war. He then returned, and
commenced the study of medicine with his father at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and
afterward attended lectures at Harvard Medical School, from which institution he took
his degree of Doctor of Medicine in March, 1870. He immediately commenced the
practice of his profession at Holliston, Massachusetts, where he remained for two or
three years, doing a very satisfactory business, when his father, who was growing old and
feeble, sent for him to go to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and take charge of his practice.
He has remained there ever since, devoting himself entirely to his profession, with a
successful practice.
He was married June 14, 1871, to Miss Georgia L. Bemis, of Huntington,
Massachusetts. They have two children: Alfred Owen, Jr., born July 20, 1874, and
Edward, born July 31, 1878.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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