Charles A. Manson

Charles Albert Manson was born August 22, 1842, at Great Falls, New Hampshire. He received his Academic education at Sanbornton Bridge, New Hampshire, and entered our class in the Fall of 1861, at the beginning of Sophomore year. 

He left us during the Summer term of that year, in June, 1862, and on June 24 he enlisted in Company B, Seventh Squadron, Rhode Island Cavalry, for three months. He was taken prisoner by the Confederates, near Winchester, Virginia, and conveyed to Richmond, Virginia, where he was confined in Libby prison for awhile, and was then transferred to Belle Isle. He was exchanged and returned to Providence, Rhode Island, where he was mustered out of the Service on October 2, 1862. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Campbell, of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, and afterward attended lectures at Bowdoin, and also in New York City. He graduated in June, 1864, from the Medical Department of the University of Vermont, at Burlington. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Navy August 11, 1864, and remained in that branch of the Service until September 19, 1865, when he was appointed Surgeon of the Eighty-eighth Regiment, U. S. Colored Infantry. He was mustered out of the Service on January 1, 1866. He then went West and located in Illinois, where he commenced the practice of his profession; he remained there but a few months, when he went to Springfield, Massachusetts, on January 1, 1872. Here he continued his practice with great success up to the time of his death.  He was taken with pneumonia in a severe form, and after only four days' sickness, died April 4, 1883. He was a man of fine natural abilities and literary tastes, supplemented by a liberal education, which, with his genial personal qualities, secured for him a large circle of warm friends, among whom his absence will be much felt.

He was a Methodist in his religious convictions.

He was married September 4, 1865, to Miss Helen F. Wadleigh, of Dover, New Hampshire, who survives him.  They had two children: Albert Charles, born January 15, 1867, and Charles Francis, born June 9, 1869.

Albert Charles died January 17, 1869.
  

Source:  "Memorialia of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884, Chicago