Frank Sherman Weeks was born in Porter, ME, in April 1871, son of William S. and Mary E. Weeks.
Frank Sherman Weeks, of Porter, ME, was a student at the Medical School of Maine, at Bowdoin College, in 1890. He was then a member of its Class of 1892 and his instructor was M.E. Sweat. (Dr. Moses Erastus Sweatt died in Parsonsfield, ME, January 1, 1892, aged seventy-six years, eleven months, and nineteen days). He would eventually graduate with the Class of 1895.
Frank Sherman Weeks completed his post-graduate studies and received his medical degree from Baltimore Medical College in April 1896.
City and Suburban. Diplomas were given to 114 graduates at the commencement of the Baltimore Medical College, held at Harris’s Academy of Music (Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), April 23, 1896).
The Maine graduates were:
Maine. Charles Williard Burnell, Ernest Ormand Chellis, Eugene Dana Chellis, Percy G. Davis, Edward Percival Goodrich, Edward E. Russell. J. Roscoe Varney, Frank S. Weeks (Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), April 23, 1896)
Frank S. Weeks married (1st) in Ossipee, NH, October 19, 1896, Minnie Luella Alley. She was born in Porter, ME, November 13, 1875, daughter of Ansel E. and Addie S. (Maxwell) Alley.
New Hampshire passed a medical licensing law, March 1, 1897, which required medical practitioners to be tested, licensed and registered as of September 1, 1897. (Charles William Gross, William Emerson Pillsbury, and Frank Sherman Weeks, of Milton Mills, and Malcolm A.H. Hart, Charles Dana Jones, and John Herbert Twombly, of Milton, were all rated “A”- they were already in practice prior to the passage of the law – i.e., they were “grandfathered in” and did not have to pass the new examination) (NH State Board of Education, 1906).
Frank S. Weeks, a physician, aged twenty-nine years (b. ME), headed an Ossipee, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Minnie L. Weeks, aged twenty-five years (b. ME), and his children, Vivian G. Weeks, aged two years (b. NH), and Baby [Maud] Weeks, aged one year (b. NH). Frank S. Weeks rented their house. Minnie L. Weeks was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living.
Frank Sherman Weeks of Moultonville [in Ossipee, NH] appeared in a 1901-02 list of physicians registered to practice in New Hampshire. (The list was published in November 1902) (NH State Medical Examiner, 1902).
Frank S. Weeks, M.D., began to practice medicine at Milton Mills in 1902. Frank S. Weeks appeared in the Milton business directory of 1904, as a Milton Mills physician. F.S. Week appeared in the Milton business directory of 1905-06, as a physician, at 42 Main street in Milton Mills, and in that of 1909, as a physician at 102 Main street in Milton Mills.
Dr. Frank S. Weeks, of Milton Mills, was admitted to membership in the Strafford District Medical Society, at its meeting at the Kimball House in Dover, NH, October 31, 1907. He spoke at the meeting at which he was admitted (NH Medical Society, 1908).
Frank S. Weeks, a general practice physician, aged forty years (b. ME), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills”) household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of fifteen years), Minnie L. Weeks, aged thirty-five years (b. ME), his children, Vivian G. Weeks, aged twelve years (b. NH), Maud Weeks, aged eleven years (b. NH), Mildred Weeks, aged nine years (b. NH), Mabel Weeks, aged eight years (b. NH), Margarite Weeks, aged seven years (b. NH), and Laura Weeks, aged four years (b. NH), and his father, William Weeks, own income, aged eighty-eight years (b. ME). Frank S. Weeks rented their house. Minnie L. Weeks was the mother of six children, of whom six were still living.
F.S. Weeks appeared in the Milton business directories of 1912, and 1917, as a physician at 102 No. Main street in Milton Mills.
[Bowdoin College] Medical Class of 1895. Frank Sherman Weeks, M.D., Baltimore Med. Coll., 1896. b. 2 Apr., 1871, Porter, Me. Med Sch., 1893-94. Physician, Milton Mills, N.H., 1902- (Bowdoin College, 1916).
Frank S. Weeks, a medical physician, aged forty-eight years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Minnie L. Weeks, aged forty-three years (b. ME), his children, Maud L. Weeks, a cotton mill shirtmaker, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), Mildred R. Weeks, a woolen mill weaver, aged nineteen years (b. NH), Mabel A. Weeks, a woolen mill weaver, aged eighteen years (b. NH), Marguerite D. Weeks, a woolen mill weaver, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Laura A. Weeks, aged fourteen years (b. NH), and Vivian [(Weeks)] Bickford, a woolen mill weaver, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), his grandson, Arthur F. Bickford, aged one year, seven months (b. NH), and his boarders, Joseph A. Comeau, a farm laborer, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), and Elizabeth F. Comeau, aged thirty-four years (b. MA). Frank S. Weeks owned their house on “Upper Main Street, Milton Mills Village,” free-and-clear.
F.S. Weeks appeared in the Milton business directory of 1922, as a Milton Mills physician.
Minnie L. [(Alley)] Weeks divorced her husband, Frank S. Weeks, in Strafford County Court, March 12, 1924. She alleged “extreme cruelty.” (While this certainly sounds tempestuous, legally, one had to allege something and, prior to the advent of “no fault” divorces, there were few alternatives). Minnie L. Weeks married (2nd), April 12, 1929, Charles Alley. They resided in the Parsonsfield, ME, household of his grandfather, Joseph D. Eastman, in 1930. She died in Parsonsfield, ME, January 29, 1934.
Frank S. Weeks married (2nd), circa 1926-27, Florence A.E. (Ryan) Sanborn. She was born in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, June 4, 1900, daughter of Charles W. and Emma E. “Bessie” (Dauphinee) Sanborn. (She had married (1st) in Milton Mills, October 1, 1919, George A. Sanborn, who died there May 30, 1926).
Frank S. Weeks, a medical physician, aged fifty-nine years (b. ME), headed a Portsmouth, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Florence E. Weeks, aged twenty-nine years (b. Nova Scotia, Canada (Eng.)), his grandson, Kenneth Weeks, aged seven years (b. NH), and his boarder, Maryland Oslon, aged nine months (b. NH). Frank S. Weeks rented their house at 4 Raitt Ct., for $32 per month. They had a radio set. Florence E. Weeks was a naturalized citizen, having immigrated into the U.S. in 1919.
Frank S. (Florence E.) Weeks appeared in the Milton directory of 1936-37, as a Milton Mills physician.
Frank S. Weeks, M.D., had property in Milton valued at $600 in 1939, for which his tax was $21.00; Milton noted his uncollected tax balance of $23.00 due from the prior year; the Town owed him $60.00 for his attendance upon the Town Poor. Florence S. Weeks had an uncollected tax balance of $2.00 (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending December 31, 1940).
Frank S. Weeks, aged sixty-nine years (b. ME), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills”) household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Florence E. Weeks, a private home nurse, aged thirty-nine years (b. Nova Scotia), and his boarder, June Valley, aged seven years (b. NH). Frank S. Weeks owned their house, which was valued at $1,000. Frank S. Weeks and his wife had resided in the same house in 1935, while their boarder had resided elsewhere in Milton in 1935.
Milton recovered $7.50 in old age assistance rendered to Frank Weeks in 1952 (Milton Town Report, for the Year Ending December 31, 1952). One supposes that his gravestone, the published version of which has his death date rendered as “1932,” would actually have been read as “1952” were it not covered with lichen.
Lee Notes. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Adams and Mrs. Florence Weeks of Milton Mills were Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. Katharine Jones and Miss Esther Garrity. Mrs. Adams celebrated her birthday anniversary with gifts and a cake made by Miss Garrity (Portsmouth Herald, April 30, 1958).
Lester Belmont Bradford was born in Castle Hill, ME, September 10, 1884, son of George F. and Melvina A. (Sylvester) Bradford.
George F. Bradford, a clergyman, aged fifty years (b. ME), headed a New Ipswich, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of nineteen years), Melvina S. Bradford, aged forty-two years (b. ME), and his children, Lester B. Bradford, at school, aged seventeen years (b. ME), Walter S. Bradford, at school, aged eleven years (b. ME), and Jean Haynes Bradford, aged four years (b. ME). George H. Bradford rented their house. Melvina S. Bradford was the mother of three children, of whom three were still living.
Lester B. Bradford was recorded twice in the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. He appeared also as Lester B. Bradford, a student, aged sixteen years (b. ME), boarding in the Ashburnham, MA, household of James C. Story, a physician, aged forty-five years (b. NY). Bradford was one of eleven student boarders, who were likely attending the Cushing Academy there. (Ashburnham, MA, adjoins his parents’ town of New Ipswich, NH).
Lester B. Bradford appeared in the Barrington, NH, directory of 1905, as a student at Baltimore Medical College, with his home residence with G.F.B., in East Barrington. Rev. George F. Bradford appeared as pastor of the Congregational Church in East Barrington, with his house at the same place.
Lester B. Bradford was among ninety-one graduates of the Maryland Medical College, who received their degrees at the Lyceum Theatre in Baltimore, MD, on Friday evening, May 5, 1905, followed by a banquet at Heptasoph Hall, at the intersection of Cathedral and Preston streets (Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), May 3, 1905).
BRAND NEW DOCTORS. Maryland Medical College Holds Its Commencement. GIRLS AND FLOWERS GALORE. Lyceum Theatre Crowded With Enthusiastic Friends. Banquet Follows The Exercises. Spritely music, pretty flowers and the presence of their “best girls’ made the seventh annual commencement of the Maryland Medical College last night at the Lyceum Theatre a joyous occasion for the 91 graduates. The theatre was crowded. Nearly all of the students are from out of town, and most of those in the audience came from far away. They were there from Canada, from Cuba and from almost every one of the Eastern and Southern States. For the parents and other well wishers of the graduates the distance made the occasion more momentous (Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), May 6, 1905).
Mitchell-Cony’s Town Register of 1907-08 tells us that “Dr. L.B. Bradford came here [to Milton Mills] about the month of June, 1907, but remained only a short time.” Possibly, there was insufficient scope in the village of Milton Mills for a budding eye, ears, nose and throat specialist. He was in Rockland, ME, by 1910.
L.B. Bradford, a physician, aged twenty-seven years (b. ME), boarded in the Rockland, ME, household of James A. Richan, at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. Richan was a dentist, aged thirty-seven years (b. Nova Scotia). His wife (of fourteen years), Ivah M. [(Young)] Richan, was a boarding house keeper, aged thirty-four years (b. ME). They resided on Elm Street.
Lester B. Bradford was resident in Rockland, ME, when his father died in neighboring Thomaston, ME, February 27, 1911, aged sixty-one years. (His mother, Melvina A. (Sylvester) Bradford, died in Thomaston, ME, June 6, 1915).
NOTES OF BANGOR SEMINARY GRADUATES. … Rev. George Frederic Bradford. class of 1891, died at Thomaston, Feb. 27, 1911, aged 61 years. He was born in Topsfield, Oct. 28, 1849, a lineal descendant of the Pilgrim Governor Bradford. He was ordained in Warren, in 18[9]3; was pastor at Holden and Dedham, 1891-2; Bristol 1892-8; New Ipswich, N.H., 1893-1900; Deerfield Center and Barrington, N.H., Lyndeboro, N.H., 1907-1309. He is survived by a wife and three sons, Dr. Lester B. Bradford of Rockland, Walter P., a student in Bangor Seminary, and Jean H. of Thomaston (Bangor Daily News (Bangor, ME), March 28, 1911).
Lester B. Bradford appeared in the Rockland, ME, directory of 1917, as a physician, resident at 335 Main street.
Talk of the Town. Dr. L.B. Bradford recently passed a successful examination at Fort Preble, and becomes a member of the medical reserves, in the department devoted to eye, ears and nose, which has been his specialty while practicing here. His friends will be especially pleased to learn that he has been recommended for a captaincy. Dr. Bradford is a graduate of the Maryland Medical College (Rockland Courier-Gazette (Rockland, ME), December 7, 1917).
Lester B. Bradford received his appointment as a First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps, January 18, 1918, and was promoted to Captain, July 6, 1918. He was stationed at General Hospital No. 1, until August 16, 1918, then Base Hospital No. 58, then Evac. Hospital No. 2, then Evac. Hospital No. 49 until his discharge, September 18, 1919. (He served overseas between August 20, 1918, and August 30, 1919).
The American Red Cross, National Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
January 28, 1920.
Mr. G.L. Brist, Division of Passport Control, State Department, Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Brist, This will serve to introduce Dr. Lester B. Bradford. Dr. Bradford is going to France for the American Red Cross, and we would thank you to accept his application for passport. The application is complete with the exception of his birth evidence, but as he has his discharge from the Army, I think this will be wa[i]ved. May I have the passport Saturday?
Yours very truly,
S. Ethel Sparks, Passport Clerk, Department of Personnel.
Lester B. Bradford does not appear in the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census, as he was working overseas for the American Red Cross (and the American Relief Administration). He set up hospitals in forty different countries.
Practicing Surgery Among Bandits. The familiar story of the dying Indian who reveals to the comforter of his last moments the secret of a hidden hoard of gold, is credible, if familiar. A man might, once in a lifetime, be the recipient of such a secret. But if you were told of a man to whom half a dozen dying Indians had at different times revealed the secrets of half a dozen separate and distinct treasures, you might perhaps appear to believe the story for the sake of politeness, but you wouldn’t be likely to rush down to the station and buy a ticket for the town nearest the spot indicated on one of the old Indian’s maps. Nevertheless there is in Turkey an American surgeon who has this experience. Dr. L.B. Bradford, of Boston, in charge of the American Red Cross hospital of 150 beds at Prizren, has been the custodian of valuable secrets. Coming into such intimate contact with Turks, Serbs and Albanians, and saving, as he does, the lives of their mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers, it is only natural that he should win the confidence of thousands, some few of whom endeavor to repay his kindness by telling him hidden treasure stories, most of which are true. But the treasures are not available to Dr. Bradford because the hidden hoards are in the form of lodes of valuable metals, like gold, silver and copper, and Dr. Bradford is not a mining engineer. Prizren is located in wild country. And a native possessed of the secret of a gold mine is not a good insurance risk. It is the Balkan custom to do away with plain citizens who know too much about valuable mines. About one quarter of the cases in the hospital are gunshot wounds, many of whom are Turkish and Serbian travelers shot up by bandits that infest the mountains. An odd feature of these wounds is that 87 per cent of them are below the knee. The bandits shoot low, for they are averse to taking human life, and want pocketbooks and jewelry only – American Red Cross (Phillips, 1921).
Dr. Lester Bradford, of Boothbay Harbor, ME, sailed from Naples, Italy, on the S.S Providence, arriving in New York, NY, April 15, 1921. He was thirty-five years of age (b. Castle Hill, ME, September 10, 1884).
Lester Belmont Bradford married in Boothbay Harbor, ME, December 10, 1921, Elizabeth Bonaventura McDonald, he of Pocono Pines, PA, and she of Stroudsburg, PA. He was a physician, aged thirty-five years, and she was a nurse, aged twenty-seven years. She was born in Ashley, PA, July 31, 1894, daughter of Thomas F. and Elizabeth L. (Smith) McDonald.
Lester B. and Elizabeth B. Bradford, of Pocono Pines, PA, sailed on the S.S. Chignecto from Demerara, British Guiana, December 15, 1921, arriving in St. John, New Brunswick, January 11, 1922. He was an assistant surgeon for the U.S. Public Health Service, aged thirty-six years (b. Castle Hill, ME, September 10, 1886 [SIC]), and she was “with husband,” aged twenty-seven years (b. Stroudsburg, PA, July 31, 1894).
Dr. Lester W. Bradford, a U.S. Vet. Bureau physician, aged forty-five years (b. ME), headed a Perry Point, MD, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Elizabeth B. Bradford, aged thirty-five years (b. PA), and his servant, Elinor A. Langford, a household servant, aged forty-eight years (b. PA). Dr. Bradford rented their house at 1154 South Avenue A, which was valued at $5,000. They had a radio set.
Lester B. (Elizabeth) appeared in the Rockland, ME, directory of 1942, as a physician, with both his house and office at 50 Masonic street.
Lester N. Bradford died in Tenant’s Harbor, ME, September 24, 1945, aged sixty-three years.
Dr. L.B. Bradford, Prominent Maine Specialist, Dies. ROCKLAND, Sept 24 – Dr. Lester B. Bradford, 63, died at his summer home at Tenant Harbor, Sept. 24, He was born in Castle Hill, son of the Rev. George Frederick and Melvina Sylvester Bradford. His wife was the former Elizabeth McDonald. A graduate of the University Maryland in 1906 [1905] as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, he began his practice in Rockland. In World War 1 he went overseas as a major, and was in the zone of advance, going to Coblenz with the Army of Occupation and remaining there for a year after the war ended. Returning to this country, he was again sent to Europe with the Red Cross and the Hoover Relief Administration. During 1920 he visited 40 countries and had official status with the Polish Commission, working out of Paris, and setting up hospitals in each country visited. He was in Russia during the typhus epidemic in 1920 and returned to the United States in 1921, joining the U.S. Public Health Administration, which later became the Veterans Administration. Since then he had practiced his specialties in veterans’ hospitals all over the country, also examining pilots of World War II. At the time of his retirement to private practice in 1941, he was the head of the eye, ear, nose and throat diagnostic center of the Veterans Administration in San Francisco. Besides his wife, he is survived by two brothers, Gene of Spencer, Mass., and Capt. Walter, a chaplain in the Pacific area. Funeral services will be held at his Tenant Harbor home Wednesday afternoon at 1.30, the Rev. Maldwyn Parry officiating. Interment will be in Arlington National cemetery Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock with full military services (Bangor Daily News, September 24, 1945).
Elizabeth (McDonald) Bradford died in Tenant’s Harbor, ME, May 19, 1953, aged fifty-eight years.
OBITUARIES. MRS. ELIZABETH BRADFORD. TENANT’S HARBOR, May 19 – Mrs. Elizabeth Bradford, 58, widow of Dr. Lester B. Bradford, formerly of Rockland, died Tuesday afternoon at her home here. She was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Smith McDonald. She is survived by a brother, Thomas McDonald of Passaic, N.J. The Rev. Charles F. Bennett will officiate at a Requiem Mass., Thursday morning at 9:00 o’clock at St Bernard’s Catholic church, Rockland. Rosary will be recited Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the residence here. Burial will be at Arlington National Cemetery at Fort Meyers, Va. (Bangor Daily News, May 20, 1953).
John Wallace was born in Gortaheran, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, June 24, 1870, son of William and Mary Jane (Glass) Wallace. (Some sources say June 23, 1870).
Later sources say that he graduated from Queen’s College, in Belfast, [Northern] Ireland, and received his medical degree in Edinburgh, Scotland (prior to his December 1895 marriage). He practiced in [Northern] Ireland for two years.
John Wallace married in Finvoy, [Northern] Ireland, December 12, 1895, Wilhelmina Margretta Price “Mina” Hay, he of Portglenone, and she of Finvoy. She was born in Mullanyduffy, County Leitrim, Ireland, February 28, 1873, daughter of William and Mary Jane (McMullen) Hay.
MARRIAGES. WALLACE-HAY. December 12, at Finvoy Presbyterian Church, by Rev. W.H. Craig, assisted by Rev. A. Gallagher, Kilrea, Dr. John Wallace, Portglenone, only son of William Wallace, Esq., Newmills, Portglenone, to Wilhelmina Margretta Price (Mina), second daughter of William Hay, Esq., Finvoy (Belfast Newsletter, December 17, 1895).
Daughter Mary Jane Wallace was born in Northern Ireland, October 4, 1896.
(The British, including the Irish, had a naming custom, which was observed also in early America. The first son would be named after the father’s father, the second son would be named after the mother’s father, the third son would be the “Junior,” and subsequent sons would be named after the father’s brothers in sequence. The first daughter would be named after the mother’s mother, the second daughter would be named after the father’s mother, the third daughter would be the “Junior,” and subsequent daughters would be named after the mother’s sisters in sequence. In this case, both the parents had fathers named William, and both had mothers named Mary Jane. So, their first two children would be named Mary Jane and William. Then came the “Juniors,” Wilhelmina and John).
John Wallace left Londonderry, [Northern] Ireland, on the SS City of Rome, August 28, 1897. He was a surgeon, aged twenty-six years, and traveled “Second Cabin,” i.e., second class. He evidently transferred in Liverpool, England, to the RMS Etruria, which sailed for New York, NY, arriving there September 18, 1897. He was a doctor, aged twenty-seven years, and again traveled “Second Cabin.”
W.F. Wallace appeared in the Milton business directory of 1898, as a Milton physician. (Despite what the directory says, this was actually Dr. John Wallace, rather than the earlier practitioner of the same surname, Dr. William F. Wallace, who had moved since to Plaistow, NH).
John Wallace appeared in the Milton directory of 1900, as a physician, with his house at 22 S. Main street. (He left for Roxbury, i.e., Boston, MA, prior to June 1900).
John Wallace, a physician, aged twenty-nine years (b. Ireland), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of four years), Wilhelmine M.P. Wallace, aged twenty-seven years (b. Ireland), and his child, Mary J. Wallace, aged three years (b. Ireland). John Wallace rented their apartment at 2773 Washington Street. Wilhelmine M.P. Wallace was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living. They had all immigrated into the U.S. in 1897.
John Wallace appeared in the Boston, MA, directory of 1901, as a physician, with his house and office at 2773 Washington street. (He appeared in the Milton directory of 1902, as having removed to “Roxbury, Mass.”).
John Wallace, of 324 Warren Street, Boston, MA, petitioned to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, in Roxbury District Court, in Boston, MA, October 23, 1901. He was a physician, born in Gortaheran, County Antrim, [Northern] Ireland, June 24, 1870. He had sailed from Londonderry, [Northern] Ireland, arriving in New York, NY, September 2, 1897. Frank S. Lee, and Frank W. Lee, both of 77 Cedar Street, Boston, MA, signed as his witnesses. His petition was granted and he became a naturalized U.S. citizen, November 19, 1903. (His wife and children would have become naturalized also through his action).
Son William Wallace was born at 2787 Washington Street in Roxbury, MA, October 24, 1901, son of John and Wilhelmina M.P. (Hay) Wallace. (The day after his father’s initial petition for naturalization). His parents were both natives of Ireland, and his father worked as a physician.
John Wallace appeared in the Boston, MA, directory of 1905, as a physician, with his house and office at 324 Warren street, in the Roxbury district of Boston. (Thomas H. Wallace, an engineer, boarded at 324 Warren street).
Daughter Wilhemina Elizabeth “Mina” Wallace was born at 324 Warren Street, in the Roxbury district of Boston, MA, June 18, 1905, daughter of John and Wilhelmina M.P. (Hay) Wallace. Her parents were both natives of Ireland, and her father worked as a physician.
Son John Wallace was born at 223 Warren Street, September 11, 1909, son of John and Wilhelmina M.P. (Hay) Wallace. His parents were both natives of Ireland, and his father worked as a physician.
John Wallace, a general practice physician, aged thirty-nine years (b. Ireland), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of fourteen years), Wilhelmina Wallace, aged thirty-seven years (b. Ireland), his children, Mary J. Wallace, aged thirteen years (b. Ireland), William Wallace, aged eight years (b. MA), Wilhelmina E. Wallace, aged four years (b. MA), and John Wallace, aged seven months (b. MA), and his servant, Annie Gallagher, a private family servant, aged nineteen years (b. Ireland). John Wallace rented their house at 223 Warren Street. Wilhelmina Wallace was the mother of four child, of whom four were still living. Annie Gallagher was a recent Irish immigrant, having arrived in 1909.
John Wallace, a medical doctor, aged forty-nine years (b. Ireland), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Wilhelmina M.P. Wallace, aged forty-six years (b. Ireland), and his children, Mary J. Wallace, aged twenty-three years (b. Ireland), William Wallace, a barker clerk, aged eighteen years (b. MA), Wilhelmina E. Wallace, aged fourteen years (b. MA), and John Wallace, Jr., aged ten years (b. MA). John Wallace owned their house at 219 Warren Street, with a mortgage. The Irish natives in the family had immigrated into the U.S. in 1897, and had become naturalized U.S. citizens in 1902 [SIC].
Daughter Mary J. Wallace married in the Roxbury district of Boston, MA, September 21, 1922, Robert Whitelaw Smith.
GREATER BOSTON WEDDINGS SHOW THAT SEPTEMBER IS STILL A POPULAR MONTH. … The marriage ceremony of Miss Mary Jane Wallace, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John Wallace of Roxbury, to Robert Whitelaw Smith of White River Junction, Vt., was solemnised Thursday evening at the home of the bride’s parents (Boston Globe, [Saturday,] September 23, 1922).
Daughter Wilhelmina E. “Mina” Wallace received her M.A. degree from Radcliffe College at the Sanders Theater in Cambridge, MA, June 19, 1929 (Boston Globe, June 19, 1929). (Her undergraduate Radcliffe scrapbook is retained by the college).
John Wallace died in the Roxbury district of Boston, MA, December 2, 1929, aged fifty-nine years.
DR. JOHN WALLACE DIES IN ROXBURY. Active in His Profession Until Ten Days Ago. Dr. John Wallace, a practicing physician in Roxbury for 30 years, died this morning at his home, 219 Warren st., Roxbury, after a sickness of 10 days. He was in his 60th year, and had been active in his practice until he was taken sick. He was very well known to many old residents of Roxbury. His office was directly opposite the Boston Clerical School, which was formerly the Roxbury High School. Dr. Wallace received his early training in Ireland where he was born. He was graduated from Queens College, Belfast, and received his degree as a medical doctor at Edinboro. For two years Dr. Wallace practiced his profession in Ireland. He became affiliated with the British Medical Association and was honored with a membership in the Royal College of Surgeons. Upon arriving in this country, Dr. Wallace settled in New Hampshire and established a practice there, remaining for two years. He then moved to Roxbury, where he had resided since. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and was prominent in the Masons and Odd Fellows. Dr. Wallace is survived by his wife, Wilhelmina; two sons, William and John; two daughters, Mrs. Robert W. Smith of White River Junction, Vt., and Miss Wilhelmina Wallace, and three sisters, Miss Martha Wallace of Belfast, Me., and Misses Elizabeth and Mary Jane Wallace of New York. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Dudley Street Baptist Church, Roxbury (Boston Globe, December 2, 1929).
Willhelmina M.P. Wallace, a widow, aged fifty-seven years (b. Northern Ireland), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. Her household included her son, John Wallace, aged twenty years (b. MA). Wilhelmina M.P. Wallace rented their house at 70 Howland Street, for $45 per month. They had a radio set.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. Miss Mina Wallace of New York City is visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. Robert W. Smith (Vermont Standard (Woodstock, VT), March 26, 1931).
In Society. Wallace-Martin. The marriage of Miss Wilhelmina Elizabeth Wallace, daughter of Wilhelmina H. Wallace and the late Dr. John Wallace of Boston and Northport, Me., to Dr. Samuel Forrest Martin, son of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Vilas Martin of Maryville, took place June 18 at Providence. R.I. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Harold L. Wilson in the First Presbyterian church there in the presence of Miss Marian Higgs of Boston, classmate of Mrs. Martin at Radcliffe College, and Dr. Charles Voss Ferguson, classmate of Dr. Martin at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. Mrs. Martin is a graduate of Radcliffe College, having received both her Bachelor of Arts and Masters degrees from that institution. Dr. Martin attended Choate school, Wallingford, Conn., and is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. Dr. and Mrs. Martin will make their home in Providence where Dr. Martin is an interne in the Rh0de Island hospital (Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, MI), June 23, 1934).
Wilhelmina M.P. Wallace sold Lot 2102 in Quincy, MA, to Sidney W. Grossman, in 1937 (Boston Globe, February 13, 1937).
Wilhelmina M.P. Wallace, of 134 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA, appeared in a list of escheats – unclaimed money – published by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She or her estate was owed $15 (Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), July 15, 1952).
One of the few silver linings that has emerged from the pandemic is finally a significant number of parents are starting to take charge of their children’s education. Out of necessity more than choice, last year saw a notable drop in children “attending” government schools and an increase in homeschooling and pandemic PODs or micro-schools.
What exactly is a POD or micro-school? Actually, there are two different kinds: a self-directed POD and a learning support POD. Under a self-directed POD, parents unenroll their child from the existing traditional government school, charter school, magnet school, or private school. The parent is the teacher and is fully responsible for their child’s education and curriculum. This path is mostly associated with what folks call homeschooling. This differs from the learning support POD in that parents keep their child enrolled in their regular school but find a group of families for after-school activities and additional educational enrichment.
Like people, POD’s are as different as they come. The only thing they really have in common is that students gather together in small groups with adult supervision to learn, explore, and socialize. The parents come up with the rules and terms, which run the gamut for number of hours, fees, safety protocols, and just about everything parents can agree on for their children. They can be completely free or cost several hundred dollars per month. They offer significant flexibility to suit the parents’ and children’s needs and may gather for just 10-20 hours/week or just on certain days.
Just a little refresher here on New Hampshire homeschooling laws: school is compulsory for children aged 6-18, and parents must notify the school principal within 5 days of beginning homeschooling. There are no teacher qualifications and no immunization requirements, but state mandated subjects are science, math, language, government, history, health, reading, writing, spelling, history of the US and New Hampshire constitutions, and exposure to art and music. Parents must keep a portfolio of work samples for each student for two years and have each student evaluated annually. All things considered compared to other nanny states, intrusion is minimal in New Hampshire.
One interesting piece I read from a homeschooler demonstrates that there is no need to fear overzealous oversight by educational bureaucrats if you do your “homework” as a parent. When a new school administrator requested a list of books the parent was using for her children, the parent sent back a “Show Me” letter asking for the specific passage in the law where it states the parent must provide such a list. A few days later, the parent received a response from the school stating that she met the legal requirement to homeschool – without mentioning (wisely) the school list. Good for this parent – let the burden of proof for nonsense rest on the bureaucrats, not the taxpaying citizen.
How did we get to a point where a parent has to fear a school bureaucrat? Government schools have been around since the beginning of the country, but it might surprise you to know that such schools were mostly privately financed by fees paid by the parents – basically a user fee. True, local, county, and state governments did kick in some supplementary financing, especially for children whose parents couldn’t afford it. But, basically without being compulsory or free, almost every child was able to attend school.
Unfortunately, the busybodies weren’t content to leave well enough alone. Beginning in the 1840’s, a movement developed to make schools “free” by having parents and their neighbors pay for schools indirectly by taxes rather than directly by fees. (Just look at your most recent property tax bill and see how “free” they really are.) Tellingly, it was not the parents who led this movement but teachers and government officials. The most famous crusader was Horace Mann, the first secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, who is now heralded as “the father of American public education.” While Mann and his ilk pitched the “good public investment” argument we’ve all heard ever since then, that was a smokescreen. It was really the teachers and bureaucrats pushing for their own self-interest for a greater certainty of employment, more security for their salaries being paid, and of course more control if government paid the bills rather than parents.
As no surprise to anyone, it’s all about control, and control is all about funding. If parents pay directly themselves, they pretty much have 100% say over their children’s education, but if schools are “free” because their neighbors are forced to pay, then control is gladly taken over by administrators, boards, councils, committees, and politicians. Well, we’re hardly going back to user fees for most parents after 170 years of “free” schools, but the idea of school choice has been gaining momentum in recent years, and last year’s dismal experience with remote learning is giving it a good boost.
If your neighbors are going to be forced to pay for your children’s education, why not direct that money right to the parents and let them pick the best school for their children? The taxpayers would be no worse off since tax extractions are still tax extractions, but the children would get a break for a change because their own parents know them better and are better guardians than strangers and, worse still, bureaucrats with their own agenda.
I’ll bet even if only 80% of what all levels of government spend on each child were to be paid to parents, government schools would see a mass exodus, and a whole new crop of educational options would open up for all children, not just the children of the elite. Since private, voluntary schools have a record of stretching dollars a lot further than government schools, 80% might be more than enough for most parents, but even if they had to dig into their own pocketbooks, most parents would be willing to do it because the desire to have your children succeed in life is universal. Funding “the children” rather than schools, institutions, and school districts would be a better way to accomplish that much overused term “the public good.”
Needless to say, the educational-industrial complex industry is not about to give up its stranglehold on “the children.” The teachers’ unions, bureaucrats, and politicians have fought the very notion of school choice for decades, and they’re not going down without a fight. Even charter schools, which are still government schools, have been targeted by the teachers’ unions and politicians for years because they have more independence and flexibility in how they operate. The fierce opposition has increased lately, despite the existence of charter school lotteries because demand by parents exceeds the supply. That alone should demonstrate what the real motives are of those with vested interests.
Since the pandemic started, the supporters of continuing this educational monopoly have really gone on the warpath. Here are but a few examples from all over the country. The Oregon Department of Education opposed school re-openings because “multi-family learning groups may slow the process of returning to school by creating more opportunities for spread among students and families.” The Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators lobbied to make it illegal for families to enroll in virtual charter schools during the lockdown because the school districts would be losing money. Then there was the Denver Board of Education which was “deeply concerned about POD long-term negative implication for public education and social justice.” And who can forget the teachers’ rallies in the fall with their mock body bags and signs proclaiming Not One Case? Never mind that New York City’s top health officials declared that “the public schools are among the safest public places around.”
As always, wealthier parents have turned to other alternatives like PODs, private schools, and tutors to take care of their kids while the children of parents on the lower end of the economic ladder are languishing at home with inferior online classes. Really showing their fangs this time, the unions, bureaucrats, and politicians rail about “equity,” “inclusiveness,” and “privilege,” but what alternatives have they presented? None – their hypocrisy is breath-taking. Not only do they not care what happens to the kids from poor families – they resent and oppose those who do escape their clutches. So that all will be equal, they prefer a race to the bottom.
While the funding conundrum will force many middle-class families back to the government school system after the pandemic has faded, I’m hoping a significant number will never return. Hopefully the extra money parents have to dig into their pockets for is worth the extra control they gained over their children’s education. Maybe they will have discovered that “free” wasn’t such a bargain after all.
William Frederick Wallace was born in Concord, NH, July 11, 1849, son of William B. and Lydia M. (Waterman) Wallace.
He received his preliminary education in the common and high schools of Epsom and the New Hampton Literary Institute. At the age of sixteen he entered the United States service in the Eighteenth New Hampshire Regiment, in Company I (Conn, 1906).
William F. Wallace of Concord, NH, enlisted in Concord, NH, as a musician in Co. I of the 18th Regiment, NH Volunteer Infantry, March 6, 1865. He was a student, aged sixteen years. He mustered out in July 1865.
… and on the expiration of his service in the army, he went West, taught school in Ohio and Kansas for several years (Conn, 1906).
W.F. Wallace of Columbus, OH, was one of the National Teachers Association members present at Cleveland, OH, in 1870.
William F. Wallace married (1st) in Miami, KS, June 27, 1875, Sue A. Heiskell. He was aged twenty-five years, and she was aged eighteen years. Rev. W.W. Bailey performed the ceremony. She was born in Paola, KS, May 31, 1857, daughter of William A. and Emeline J. (Peery) Heiskell.
(There is a bit of a mystery as to how and when they parted company. Her 1918 obituary said that she married her second husband, Hiram L. “High” Phillips, after Mr. Wallace’s death. “High” Phillips and she resided together as man and wife in Louisburg, KS, in 1880, at which time Mr. Wallace was very much alive in Fairfield, OH).
[He] commenced the study of medicine in Columbus, Ohio, in 1877, under the direction of Drs. [Lafayette] Woodruff, [John A.] Hamilton, and [Nathaniel R.] Coleman. He attended two courses of medical lectures at the University of Ohio, at Columbus, Ohio, and was graduated from the same institution, March 5, 1880 (Conn, 1906).
C.W. [Charles W.] Higgins, a physician, aged forty years (b. OH), headed a Fairfield, OH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Jennie [(Say)] Higgins, keeping house, aged thirty-eight years (b. OH), his children, Minnie B. Higgins, aged thirteen years (b. OH), Laura Higgins, aged eleven years (b. OH), Carry Higgins, aged ten years (b. OH), Walter Higgins, aged eight years (b. OH), Florence Higgins, aged seven years (b. OH), James N. Higgins, aged five years (b. OH), Loretta Higgins, aged four years (b. OH), and Drusilla J. Higgins, aged one year (b. OH), his servant, Sarah E. Burchinell, a servant, aged eighteen years (b. OH), and his boarder, W.F. Wallace, a physician, aged thirty years (b. NH). They resided at London & Circleville Street.
He commenced the practice of medicine at Lafayette, Ohio, in March 1881, and soon after removed to Bradford, N.H., where he remained for seven years; was at Milton, N.H., ten years; and is now located at Plaistow, N.H. (Conn, 1906).
William F. Wallace married (2nd) in Dover, NH, April 11, 1883, Addie M. [(Gilman)] French, he of Loudon, NH, and she of Gilmanton, NH. He was a physician, aged thirty-three years, and she was aged thirty-four years. (It was a second marriage for each of them). Frank B. Stevens, a justice of the peace, performed the ceremony. She was born in Gilmanton, NH, March 12, 1849, daughter of John S. and and Eliza P. “Betsy” (Page) Gilman.
W.F. Wallace appeared in the Milton business directories of 1884, and 1887, as a Milton physician.
He has taken an active part in health and school matters, having been a member of the local board of health and of the school board of Milton, N.H.; is a member of Grand Army Post No, 56, Milton, N.H., Odd Fellows, Knight of Pythias, Grand Templar Division, Milton, etc. (Conn, 1906).
MILTON. Dr. Wallace is about to remove to another locality on account of failing health. We are sorry to lose a most efficient physician as well as a warm and faithful friend. Dr. W was a stranger to us three years ago, but he has worked his way into the confidence of the people, as we believe he will do wherever he may go. While we regret his loss we wish him success and a returning health. Dr. Dana Jones is to be his successor, a young man well known and highly respect by all. We hope he may long be out last, for few changes can be more unpleasant for a community than a change of physicians (Farmington News, April 22, 1887).
Daughter Josephine L. Wallace died of “malignant” scarlet fever in Bradford, NH, November 19, 1892, aged six years, four months.
MILTON. Dr. Wallace is having his house repaired (Farmington News, April 13, 1894).
William F. Wallace, of Milton, NH, appeared in a list of medical students at the NY Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital in 1895 (NY Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1896).
He took a post-graduate course in 1896 in New York (Conn, 1906).
W.F. Wallace appeared in the Milton business directory of 1898, as a Milton physician. (Despite what the directory says, this was actually another physician with the same surname: Dr. John Wallace).
William F. Wallace, a physician, aged fifty years (b. NH), headed a Plaistow, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of seventeen years), Addie M. Wallace, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), and his children, Elsie M. Wallace, at school, aged fifteen years (b. NH), and Alice J. Wallace, at school, aged six years (b. NH). Addie M. Wallace was the mother of three children, of whom two were still living. They rented their house.
DEAD FROM EXPOSURE. Hiram I. Tuxbury, Civil War Veteran, The Unfortunate. Haverhill, March 4. – The body of Hiram I. Tuxbury of Newton, N.H., was found this morning in the rear of the schoolhouse at the North Parish. Life had probably been extinct for at least three days. Dr. Wallace of Plaistow was summoned and gave heart trouble and exposure as the probable cause of death. There were no marks on the body, and fears of suicide or foul play are scouted. The deceased about sixty-five years of age, and, when found, was fully dressed. On his person were found a half-pint bottle of whiskey, $6.08 in money, several old coins and a number of letters by which he was identified. The body was found by Charles Sargent, who lives near Denocour’s brick yard in Plaistow, as he was crossing J.C. Merrill’s pasture. He saw the dead body and hastened lo N.A. Wentworth’s. In company with the latter, he returned to the spot where the body lay. It was at first thought to be the body of Pliny Mooers, Sr., who has been living at Moses B. Dow’s in Plaistow during past year. The members of the Mooer family were summoned and they also were satisfied that it was Mr. Mooer. Inquiry at Mr. Dow’s revealed the fact that that gentleman was at work cutting wood, however. J.H. Noyes of Plaistow arrived after and made an examination. It was then that letters addressed to Hiram Tuxbury, Newton, N.H., wee found. Mr. Noyes ordered the remains taken to Plaistow for further identification. Mr. Tuxbury was a veteran of the civil war and was a pensioner. A number of pension papers were also found on his body. He left his home in Newton three weeks ago, and, while friends have seen him in this city, he had not notified his wife of his whereabouts. She believed he was visiting friends in this city (Portsmouth Herald, March 5, 1902).
The two Wallace girls appear to have been among the heirs of a French family estate on their maternal side, and their father was appointed as their guardian in that matter.
PROBATE COURT. Business Transacted At The Last Term Held In Exeter. The following business was transacted at the June term of the court in Exeter: … Guardians appointed over Edna Wentworth, Plaistow, James C Merrill guardian; Alice C. Wallace, Elsie M. Wallace, Plaistow, William Wallace, guardian; F. Wiggen, Epping (insane), John A. Wiggen, guardian (Portsmouth Herald, June 12, 1903).
At its meeting in Concord, NH, May 21, 1903, the Treasurer of the NH Medical Society identified five members, including William F. Wallace, M.D., of Plaistow, NH, as being three years or more in arrears with their dues (NH Medical Society, 1903).
Milton. Dr. W.F. Wallace of Rochester was in town Tuesday (Farmington News, July 29, 1904).
William F. Wallace died of heart disease in Rochester, NH, September 5, 1906, aged fifty-six years.
Deaths. William F. Wallace, M.D. Columbus (Ohio) Medical College, 1880, died at his home in Rochester, N.H., September 5, from heart disease, aged 56 (JAMA, 1906).
Addie M. Wallace applied for a Civil War widow’s pension, October 15, 1906, based upon her late husband’s service in the Eighteenth NH Infantry.
Addie M. Wallace appeared in the Rochester directory of 1912, as a widow, with her home at 18 Silver street. Her daughter, Miss Elsye M. Wallace, appeared as having her home also at 18 Silver street. (Son-in-law William H. Wingate, a shoe operative, W. [E.G. & E. Wallace, boot and shoe mfrs.], had his house at 18 Silver street).
Addie M. Wallace, of Rochester, NH, appeared in a list of NH State Grange members that had been elevated to the rank of Six Degree at their meeting held in the Rochester Opera House, April 30, 1915.
Daughter Elsye M. Wallace married in Plaistow, NH, August 16, 1918, Rolf A. Osterman, both of Rochester, NH. He was a soldier, aged twenty-seven years, and she was “at home,” aged twenty-nine years. (She ran Ye Ragged Robin Tea Shop in Milton).
William H. Wingate, a shoe factory supply man, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Laura M. [(French)] Wingate, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), his children, Carleton Wingate, a machine shop machinist, aged twenty years (b. NH), Gladys Wingate, a bookkeeper, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), his mother-in-law, Addie M. Wallace, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH), his brother-in-law, Rolf Osterman, a theatre actor, aged thirty-four years (b. RI), and his sister-in-law, Alsie M. Osterman, a theatre actress, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), and Alice J. Wallace, a theatre singer, aged twenty-six years (b. NH). William H. Wingate owned their house at 18 Silver Street. (Laura M. [(French)] Wingate was a daughter of Addie M. Wallace’s first marriage).
Daughter Alice J. Wallace married in Milton, November 2, 1920, Phillip A. Kimball, he of Union [Village, Wakefield,] NH. and she of Rochester, NH. He was a physician, aged thirty-one years (b. Tamworth, NH); she was in the Theatrical trade, aged twenty-seven years (b. Bradford, NH). Rev. Owen E. Hardy of Milton performed the ceremony. Phillip A. Kimball was born in Tamworth, NH, October 8, 1889, son of Samuel O. and Sarah F. (Gilman) Kimball.
Philip Kimball, a physician, aged forty-one years (b. NH), headed a Bristol, NH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of ten years), Alice J. Kimball, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), his child, Wallace O. Kimball, aged eight years (b. NH), and his mother-in-law, Addie M. Wallace, a widow, aged eighty-one years (b. NH). They resided in a rented household, for which they paid $20 per month. They had a radio set.
Dr. Phillip A. and Alice J. (Wallace) Kimball, their son, Wallace O. Kimball, and her mother, Addie M. ((Gilman) French) Wallace, moved from Bristol, NH, to Union village, in Wakefield, NH, before November 1933.
Addie Mary ((Gilman) French) Wallace died in Wakefield, NH, November 16, 1933, aged eighty-four years.
William Emerson “Emerson” Pillsbury was born in Shapleigh, ME, April 3, 1845, son of John M. and Mary (Ricker) Pillsbury.
Emerson Pillsbury (“alias William E. Pillsbury”) applied for an invalid veteran’s pension, June 8, 1865. He had served in Co. G of the 17th ME Infantry, and Co. H of the 3rd ME Infantry.
William E. Pillsbury married, circa 1868, Angie B. Brown. She was born in Montpelier, VT, November 6, 1845, daughter of James and Mary (Worcester) Brown. (Her father was a native of Lebanon, ME, and her mother a native of Somersworth, NH).
Levi Bragdon, a farmer, aged seventy years (b. ME), headed a Shapleigh, ME, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Betsey Bragdon, keeping house, aged seventy-one years (b. ME), Emerson Pillsbury, a farmer, aged twenty-six years (b. ME), Angie Pillsbury, keeping house, aged twenty-six years (b. VT), and Adalaide Webster, a housekeeper, aged fifty-eight years (b. ME). Levi Bragdon had real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $500. They shared a two-family dwelling with the household of James Ross, a farmer, aged eighty-one years (b. ME).
William Emerson Pillsbury, of Springvale, ME, attended the first course of lectures at the Medical School of Maine, at Bowdoin College, in January-June 1873. His instructor or preceptor was I. Brooks (Bowdoin College, 1844). Ivory Brooks, a physician, aged fifty-three years (b. ME), headed a Sanford, ME, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. Pillsbury graduated from Dartmouth College with its Class of 1874.
[Bowdoin College] Class of 1874. William Emerson Pillsbury, M.D., Dartmouth, 1874. b. 3 Apr., 1845, Shapleigh, Me., Med. Sch., 1873, Physician, Milton Mills, N.H. d. 9 Feb., 1907, Milton Mills, N.H. (Bowdoin College, 1916).
William E. Pilsbury, a physician, aged thirty-four years (b. ME), headed an Acton, ME, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Angie Pilsbury, keeping house, aged thirty-three years (b. VT), and his boarder, Herman Berry, a physician, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH). Their house appeared in the enumeration between those of Bradford Wilson, a blacksmith, aged fifty-three years (b. ME), and Elijah Horn, a blacksmith, aged forty-nine years (b. NH).
W.E. Pillsbury appeared in the Milton business directories of 1881, 1882, 1884, 1887, and 1889, as a Milton Mills physician.
W.E. Pillsbury of Milton Mills appeared in a list of members of the Strafford District Medical Society (Brown, 1888).
W.E. Pillsbury of Milton [Milton Mills] appeared in the surviving Veterans Schedules of the Eleventh (1890) Federal Census. He had served in Co. H, 3rd Maine Infantry, between June 6, 1862 and June 4, 1863. His household appeared in the enumeration just before those of James A. Cloutman and Charles J. Berry.
William E. Pillsbury of Milton Mills attended a Pillsbury family 25oth reunion held at Newburyport, MA, September 3, 1891 (Boston Globe, September 4, 1891).
W.E. Pillsbury appeared in the Milton business directories of 1894, and 1898, as a Milton Mills physician.
New Hampshire passed a medical licensing law, March 1, 1897, which required medical practitioners to be tested, licensed and registered as of September 1, 1897. (Charles William Gross, William Emerson Pillsbury, and Frank Sherman Weeks, of Milton Mills, and Malcolm A.H. Hart, Charles Dana Jones, and John Herbert Twombly, of Milton, were all rated “A”- they were already in practice prior to the passage of the law – i.e., they were “grandfathered in” and did not have to pass the new examination) (NH State Board of Education, 1906).
Dr. William E. Pillsbury of Milton was sought to testify in the case arising from Milton’s poisoning murder of 1897. The victim had spoken with him when he attended her before her death.
The government will rely chiefly on the evidence of Dr. William E. Pillsbury of Milton, who was the family physician and is alleged to have held certain conversations with Mrs. Jones. Previous to her death he called upon the sick woman. She told him in a confidential way that her end was near and made other statements that are expected to have great weight in deciding Jones’ fate (Boston Globe, February 26, 1898).
New Hampshire passed a medical licensing law, March 1, 1897, which required medical practitioners to be tested, licensed and registered as of September 1, 1897. (Charles William Gross, William Emerson Pillsbury, and Frank Sherman Weeks, of Milton Mills, and Malcolm A.H. Hart, Charles Dana Jones, and John Herbert Twombly, of Milton, were all rated “A”- they were already in practice prior to the passage of the law – i.e., they were “grandfathered in” and did not have to pass the new examination) (NH State Board of Education, 1906).
Almira Reynolds, Ruth Philbrick, Daniel Philbrick, Viola Lowd, Mrs. W.E. Pillsbury, and John Lowd, all of Milton Mills, were inducted into the NH State Grange, December 21, 1899, with the degree of “Flora” (NH State Grange, 1900).
William E. Pillsbury, a physician, aged fifty-three years (b. ME), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills Village”) household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-one years), Angie Pillsbury, aged fifty-two years (b. VT), and his boarder, Flora Johnson, aged twenty-eight years (b. ME). William E. Pillsbury owned their house, but with a mortgage. Angie Pillsbury was the mother of no children. Their house appeared in the enumeration between those of Albert E. Wiggin, a blanket finisher, aged twenty-six years (b. ME), and Anna M. Day, a housekeeper, aged sixty-seven years (b. ME).
MIDDLETON. J.H. Knowles has been confined to the house by illness the past week. He was attended by Dr. W.S. [W.E.] Pillsbury of Milton Mills (Farmington News, November 9, 1900).
W.E. Pillsbury appeared in the Milton business directories of 1901, 1904, and 1905-06, as a Milton Mills physician.
MILTON. Dr. Pillsbury of Milton Mills was seen on our streets last week (Farmington News, May 24, 1901).
UNION. Charles Lover met with a quite serious accident while at work in J.F. Farnham’s excelsior mill. The cover of the press became loosened in some way and flew off, striking him as he was passing by it. He was taken to his home at once and Drs. Pillsbury, Haskell and Stevens were called. He is reported to be comfortable at this writing (Farmington News, August 2, 1901).
UNION. Dr. W.E. Pillsbury of Milton Mills was seen on our streets Saturday (Farmington News, September 20, 1901).
William E. Pillsbury of Milton made his last will in Milton Mills, February 21, 1906. He bequeathed the homestead, all other real estate, and the rest and residue of his property, to his “beloved” wife, Angie Pillsbury, who he named as executor. Anything remaining after her decease was to go to his brothers and sisters, share and share alike. Ella E. Moulton, J.E. Horne, and Forrest L. Marsh signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 124:560).
William E. Pillsbury died of pneumonia in Milton, February 9, 1907, aged sixty-one years, ten months, and six days.
Deaths. William E. Pillsbury, M.D., Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, 1873 [SIC]; died at his home in Milton Mills, N.H., February 10 [SIC] (American Medical Association, April 13, 1907).
Angie B. Pillsbury filed for a veteran widow’s pension, August 16, 1907. Her husband had served in Co. G of the 17th ME Infantry, and Co. H of the 3rd ME Infantry. She filed from New Hampshire.
Levi Pillsbury, a general farmer, aged sixty-two years (b. ME), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills”) household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-seven years), Augusta Pillsbury, aged fifty-seven years (b. ME), his children, Emerson Pillsbury, aged nineteen years (b. ME), Marion Pillsbury, aged sixteen years (b. ME), and George Pillsbury, aged eleven years (b. ME), and his sister-in-law, Angie Pillsbury, aged sixty-four years (b. VT).
Angie B. (Brown) Pillsbury died of pulmonary tuberculosis in Acton, ME, May 11, 1915, aged sixty-nine years, six months, and five days.
A fraudulent physician settled briefly – probably less than a year – in Milton Mills in 1930.
He seems to have begun his career in running a “diploma mill,” i.e., he produced and sold fake diplomas from imaginary medical schools. For this or, rather, for having done so through the U.S. mails, he was convicted and sent to Federal prison.
His own medical credentials, by whose “virtue” he presented himself as a physician for over half a century, seem also to have been questionable at best. (His timeline seems to align more nearly with time spent as a diploma fraudster and convict, then any time spent, as he would later claim, in one of several different medical schools, or in foreign study).
(It may be recalled that an accomplished and legitimate practitioner, Dr. M.A.H. Hart of Milton, had his identity stolen in 1897, so that a fraudster might obtain an Illinois medical license).
And, as we shall see, the “bad” doctor labored lifelong under moral and ethical defects in other aspects of his life too.
Henry Esmond “Harry” Bradbury was born in Norway, ME, January 13, 1863 [?], son of Henry A.M. and Persis (Ripley) Bradbury. (His father served during the Civil War in Co. B, of the 32nd Regiment, ME Volunteer Infantry).
Applique Table Cover, by Persis (Ripley) Bradbury, 1864 (Per Barbara Brackman)
Henry A. Bradbury, a carpenter, aged forty-nine years (b. ME), headed a Norway, ME, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Percies Bradbury, keeping house, aged forty-five years (b. ME), and his children, Earnest Bradbury, works in shoe shop, aged twenty years (b. ME), Harry Bradbury, works in shoe shop, aged seventeen years (b. ME), Nina Bradbury, at school, aged twelve years (b. ME), and Pearle Bradbury, aged seven years (b. ME).
Under the name Henry Freeland Bradbury, he pled nolo contendre in U.S. District Court in Concord, NH, to mail fraud, October 9, 1889.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE. NASHUA, N.H. HENRY FREELAND BRADBURY, M.D., Secretary, 30 Pearl street. INCORPORATED October, 1888. FRAUDULENT. An investigation of this institution was made by Dr. D.S. Adams of Manchester, President of the New Hampshire State Board of Censors, and by the Boston Herald, which led to the exposure of its true character. Dr. Bradbury, the secretary, was indicted by the U.S. Grand Jury, at Concord, and on October 9th was convicted of using the mail for fraudulent purposes. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $250 and not having any money was sent to jail. He was also interested in the Trinity University of Bennington, Vermont, and seems to have been the agent for the sale of diplomas of fraudulent colleges located in other states. Prices of diplomas varied from $60 to $300, and were sent by express after nominal compliance with rules for graduation. In New Hampshire and Vermont, and until very recently in Massachusetts, the existence of this kind of a school was made possible owing to the laxity of the laws in regard to incorporating for general purposes or for purposes of the dissemination of knowledge (Rauch, 1891).
TRINITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY OF THE STATE OF VERMONT, Bennington, Vt. Incorporated in 1889. Fraudulent. An application was made by a Buffalo practitioner for membership in a local association of physicians in that city, the application being based on a diploma bearing the seal of this “university.” Suspicion was aroused and it was soon learned that the institution was nothing more than a “mill,” which ground out degrees to order; and that there were also departments of dental surgery, law, and the liberal arts provided for by this so-called “university.” A hardware dealer in Buffalo, who had never spent an hour in the study of medicine, received by express a diploma dated May 27, 1889, from this “College of Medicine and Surgery,” paying sixty dollars on delivery. The diploma was signed by “P. Ripley Bradbury, M.D., dean,” and “G. Wilmont Averell, L.L.D., president,” and was sent by Bradbury from Nashua, N.H. The names of some of the incorporators of this “university” appear also as incorporators of the University of New Hampshire at Nashua (q.v. ante), of which institution one Henry Freeland Bradbury is secretary. Bradbury of Nashua, N.H., and Bradbury of Bennington, Vt., seem to be one and the same person. A United States grand jury at Concord, N.H., indicted Bradbury of Nashua for using the United States mails for carrying on a fraudulent business, to wit, the sale of bogus medical diplomas, and for using a fictitious name through the United States mails for fraudulent purposes. On the trial it was shown that “Freeland had filed his articles of incorporation in Bennington, Vt., that he, his mother, and Averell, as L.L.D., had signed the bogus diplomas; that while the doctor went under his own name he carried on the bulk of his correspondence under the name of Freeland his middle name; after which Judge Holt sentenced him to pay a fine of $250,” in default of which he was committed to jail (IL State Board of Health, 1894).
MEDICAL NOTES. Boston and New England. Dr. Henry Freeland Bradbury was indicted by a grand jury, and brought before Judge Colt, of the United States Circuit Court at Concord, N.H., October 9th, for using the mails for fraudulent purposes and for the use of a fictitious name, for the pose of aiding or abetting fraud. He is the man who figured as the proprietor of the bogus colleges mentioned in this JOURNAL on October 3d. He replied in answer to the question, “What is your plea?” “I do not wish to contend against the United States.” A fine of $250 was imposed on the first indictment, and $100 on the second (Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, October 17, 1889).
Thereafter, Bradbury had his name changed legally to Henry Bradbury Esmond (a reversal of his original middle and last names). (Not to be confused with the fictional Thackeray character or with the real life British actor and playwright of the same name).
Henry B. Esmond married (1st) in Houlton, ME, August 6, 1893, Julia S. (Ganong) Colby, both of Houlton, ME. He was a physician, aged thirty-three years (b. Frost Corner), and she was a housekeeper, aged thirty-six years (b. St. John, New Brunswick). She was a widow. Rev. O.R. Crosby performed the ceremony. She was born in St. John, New Brunswick, circa 1856, daughter of John E. and Mary (Whittaker) Ganong.
The Maine Homeopathic Society held its 28th annual convention in Augusta, ME, June 5, 1894, at which it elected Dr. H.B. Esmond, of Houlton, ME, to be one of three delegates to the American Institute of Homeopathy (Boston Globe, June 6, 1894).
Dr. H.B. Esmond of Houlton, MA [ME], presented a paper before the American Physicians and Surgeons Association conference, in Buffalo, NY, June 24, 1896.
Among the other interesting papers were the following: “Life and Works of Samuel Hahnemann,” by Dr. H.B. Esmond of Houlton, Mass.; “Improvements in Gynecology,” by Dr. John T. Simpson, A. M., of Boston; “Insanitary Character of Vaccination,” by W.B. Clarke of Indianapolis, and “Haemthorpey,” by Dr. T.J. Biggs of New York (Buffalo Evening News (Buffalo, NY), June 24, 1896).
Our Own Folks and Other Folks. Dr. H.B. Esmond, of Houlton, [Me.,] is in the city (Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, October 17, 1896).
WHAT WE HEARD WHEN THE WIRES WERE CROSSED. Dr. Henry B. Esmond has moved to Madison, Me. (Medical Era, February 1897).
Bethel Local Intelligence. Dr. H.B. Esmond, formerly of Newton, Mass., and of the school of homeopathy, has located at Bethel (Bethel Courier (Bethel, VT), June 2, 1898).
CITY LOCAL NEWS. Dr. H.B. Esmond, homeopathic physician of Walden [Malden], Mass., has opened an office at 171 South Main street. Dr. Esmond comes to St. Albans well recommended. He graduated at the Buffalo medical college in 1886, past graduate N.Y. Homeopathic college in 1889 with a special course at London, Eng., in 1891 (St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT), June 22, 1898).
CITY LOCAL NEWS. A dog chased a skunk on to Dr. H.B. Esmond’s veranda last evening and for an hour he held possession of the doctor’s entrance. It would not leave and it was necessary to shoot it (St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT), October 8, 1898).
CITY LOCAL NEWS. Dr. H.B. Esmond left this morning for Stowe where he is to open an office (St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT), November 30, 1898).
ALMOST A MIRACLE. Maine Wesleyan Seminary, W.W. Norcross, Steward, Kents Hill, Me., April 6, 1899. To whom it may concern: I take pleasure in testifying to my confidence in the professional skill of Dr. H.B. Esmond of Stowe, Vt. I called him some 200 miles in the fall of 1897 to attend my wife who had been suffering for two years with what was pronounced by several of the best physicians in New England as Cancer of the liver and a “hopeless case,” her sickness accompanied at times with terrible distress – morphine the only relief. During one of these was Dr. Esmond’s first visit. Under his treatment she rallied – recovered entirely from the distress spells – returned gradually to her usual flesh (she had lost 80 lbs.) and accustomed health. To all who have seen her it seems like a miracle and has caused wide comment among the medical profession. Very truly, W.W NORCROSS. P.S. Mr. Norcross will answer any letter of inquiry if a stamp is enclosed (The Enterprise and Vermonter (Vergennes, VT), April 21, 1899).
Henry B. Esmond, a physician, aged thirty-five years (b. ME), headed a West Fairlee, VT, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his mother, Persis R. Bradbury, aged sixty-four years (b. ME), his cousin, Effie E. Bailey, a nurse, aged twenty-two years (b. ME), and his boarder, Ernest A. Lang, at school, aged sixteen years (b. VT). Henry B. Esmond owned their house, but with a mortgage. He was said to be a widower. Persis R. Bradbury was the mother of nine children, of whom four were still living.
H.B. Esmond, of West Fairlee, VT, was registered as a licensed physician in California, June 28, 1901.
MILLER’S POND. Dr. H.B. Esmond was called to see Mrs. M.G. Kenison the first of the week (Herald and News (Randolph, VT), January 16, 1902).
MILLER’S POND. Mrs. Latouch has been on the sick list and under the treatment of Dr. H.B. Esmond. (Herald and News (Randolph, VT), January 30, 1902).
MILLER’S POND. DEFERRED. Charlie George has been very sick with typhoid fever at Mrs. M.G. Kenison’s. He was attended by Dr. H.B. Esmond. He is on the gain at this writing (Chelsea Herald (Randolph, VT), June 26, 1902).
THE PUTNEY COLUMN. Dr. H.B. Esmond of Fairlee, after coming to Putney and looking over the location, has decided to settle here for the practice of medicine. Dr. Esmond is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, the New York Medical College, and ln 1891 took a special course of study in England (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT, November 2, 1902).
THE PUTNEY COLUMN. Dr. H.B. Esmond of Fairlee, whose decision to locate in Putney was announced in The Phoenix several weeks ago, came with his household furniture Tuesday. He has engaged a tenement In one of A.W.J. Wilkins’s houses (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT, November 28, 1902).
Minor Locals. Mayor Grime has received a letter from Dr. H.B. Esmond of Putney, Vt., stating that he would furnish a home to the right sort of a boy, from 14 to 17 years of age. Mayor Grime will furnish details upon application (Fall River Daily Evening News (Fall River, MA), December 31, 1904).
THE PUTNEY COLUMN. Dr. H.B. Esmond is breaking up housekeeping. He will board at the hotel (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT, June 2, 1905).
THE PUTNEY COLUMN. Dr. H.B. Esmond has settled In Bondville for the practice of medicine. A correspondent of that village writes as follows to the Londonderry Sifter: “He is a graduate of the Medical College of Indiana, 1886, of the University of Tennessee at Nashville, Tenn., and of the New York Medical college. He took a special course of study in Europe in 1891. He has had four years of hospital experience and has been in practice about 18 years” (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT, August 4, 1905).
Henry B. Esmond (“name of Esmond legalized”) married (2nd) in Everett, MA, March 7, 1906, Anna Frances ((Humphreys) [Coffin]) Blaney, he of Bondville, VT, and she of 37 Summer Street, in Everett. He was a physician, aged forty years (b. Norway, ME), and she was a divorced music teacher, aged thirty-one years (b. Beverly, MA). Rev. W.I. Sweet performed the ceremony. She was born in Manchester, MA, circa 1873, daughter of Francis and Emily O. (Dennis) Humphreys.
BONDVILLE. Dr. Esmond’s Marriage. A local news paragraph in the Lynn, Mass., Item of March 10 says: Dr. Henry B. Esmond, of Bondville, Vt., and Anna F. Humphreys of Lynn, were married by Rev. W.I. Sweet, pastor of the First Congregational church, Everett, Wednesday evening, March 7. Mrs. Humphreys is from one of the prominent Lynn families and is an accomplished musician, having had an extensive and liberal musical education in this country and in Europe. For several years she has been the leading teacher on piano in the Bostonia Academy of Music and Art, under the management of Signor Angelo Teasta. Dr. Esmond is a leading physician in Vermont, being well and favorably known in southern Vermont, where he has an extensive practice. He is an author of several essays on medical practice and kindred subjects. A wedding reception was given by the bride’s mother, Mrs. J.A. Balcom, at her home, 199 Chatham street, Lynn, when a large number of friends brought congratulations. Dr. and Mrs. Esmond, after a short bridal tour, will be at home on Wednesdays in March at their home in Bondville (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), March 16, 1906).
[Attorney] A.V.D. Piper was called to Bondville Friday on the assault case of Dr. H.B. Esmond upon his wife last Tuesday. Dr. Esmond has left for parts unknown (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), [Friday,] May 24, 1907).
BONDVILLE. Dr. Esmond has packed his goods and stored them in Mrs. H.A. Benson’s barn, He took his horses and wagons and went East (Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT), July 12, 1907).
GAYSVILLE. Dr. Esmond of Guilford was in town last week looking for a tenement. It has since been reported that he is to locate in Bethel (Bethel Courier (Bethel, VT), October 24, 1907).
Bethel Local Intelligence. Dr. H.B. Esmond of Brattleboro will settle in Bethel for the practice of medicine. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Nashville, the New York Medical college and has taken a post-graduate course of medical study in London, England. His office and residence will be on River street. Dr. Esmond has practised medicine eighteen years, of which nine were in Vermont and six in Maine. He is a widower and his family consists of himself and his mother (Herald and News (Randolph, VT), November 21, 1907).
RANDOLPH. Fleda, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. White, after a years illness from a complication of diseases, is now so much better that she is able to be dressed and about the house. She was taken in December of 1906 with violent hiccoughing, nausea and great distress of the stomach, and the attack was followed by cerebro-spinal meningitis, from which she partially recovered, only to suffer a relapse that left her with a chronic spinal trouble. A tumor then developed in the stomach, and the frequent gathering and breaking of abscesses, with constant distress and nausea, made it impossible for scarcely any food to be retained. This painful condition continued for nearly a year in spite of every effort made for her relief, but in the last few weeks she has gained steadily under the treatment of Dr. H.B. Esmond of Bethel, to whose home she went the 23d inst. in order to be more easily cared for (Herald and News (Randolph, VT), January 30, 1908).
H. Bradbury Esmond married (3rd) in Claremont, NH, May 8, 1909, Fleda M. White, he of Bellows Falls, VT, and she of Randolph, VT. He was a surgeon, aged thirty-eight years (b. S. Corner, ME), and she was at home, aged nineteen years (b. Randolph, VT). She was born in Randolph, VT, July 10, 1890, daughter of Charles J. and Matilda (Harper) White.
BETHEL BUSINESS. Press despatches from Claremont, N.H., Saturday announce the marriage that day of Dr. H.B. Esmond and Miss Fleda White, both of this village, quite recently (Montpelier Evening Argus (Montpelier, VT), [Wednesday,] May 12, 1909).
LUDLOW. Dr. H.B. Esmond has given up practice here and removed to West Bridgewater (Rutland Daily Herald (Rutland, VT), September 23, 1909).
James B. Wallace, [living on his] own income, aged seventy-one years (b. VT), headed a Concord, VT, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his boarder, Henry B. Esmond, a physician, aged forty-three years (b. ME). James B. Wallace owned their farm on the East Concord Road, free-and-clear.
RANDOLPH. Mrs. Fleda (White) Esmond was examined Saturday by Drs. J.P. Gifford and F.C. Angell, who pronounced her mentally unbalanced, and, on the order of the selectmen and overseer of the poor, she was taken to Waterbury Monday by D.D. Howe for observation at the state hospital for the insane. She will remain there until Jan. 4, when a hearing to decide her case will be held in M.M. Wilson’s office before Probate Judge G.L. Stow, with State’s Attorney Stanley C. Wilson of Chelsea present. Mrs. Esmond is a daughter of Charles J. White of Beanville and is in only her 22nd year. She has been a nervous invalid since she was 12 or 13, suffering from continual hiccoughing, and for relief from this affliction she became a patient of Dr. H.B. Esmond, then of Bethel, to whom she was afterwards married in Brattleboro (Bethel Courier (Bethel, VT), December 29, 1910).
Windsor County Court. Fleda May Esmond vs. Henry B. Esmond, divorce. Bill was granted for desertion and neglect to support (Herald and News (Randolph, VT), August 27, 1914).
Henry Esmond married (4th) in Upper Alton, IL, February 15, 1915, Martha Judy (Barber) Herrin. She was born in Troy, IL, June 4, 1858, daughter of Lyman and Elizabeth A. Barber.
Henry B. Esmond appeared in the St. Albans, VT, directory of 1915, as a physician (homeopathic), with his house and office at 70 S. Main street.
Transfers of Real Estate. Dr. H.B. Esmond, of Congress St., has purchased Nathan L. Skinner’s house on South Main st.; Mr. Skinner has bought Edward Sweeney’s house, two houses south on the same street; and Mr. Sweeney has purchased the house of W.O. Morton on High st. The transfers will be made June 1. The considerations named was nominal (St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT), May 17, 1915).
Will Attend Medical Convention. Dr. H.B. Esmond, of South Main St., has gone to Chicago to attend a medical convention which will be in session for about 10 days. At this convention there are two international and one national medical associations, each of which has a three days’ session. It is expected that the physicians from all over the United States, its possessions, and several foreign countries, will be represented. Among the many important subjects to be discussed will be the cause and treatment of infantile paralysis, and the medical treatment of appendicitis (St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT), September 20, 1917).
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL. Dr. H.B. Esmond, of South Main St., who, for the past few months hat been doing medical work on the east Eide of the state, under the auspices of the Volunteer Medical Service, has returned to this city and will resume the practice of medicine here (St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT), March 25, 1919).
WIFE WANTS DIVORCE. Claims Her Husband Deceived Her About His Age. St. Albans, Nov. 17 From the matrimonial bureau to the divorce court is the four and a half years’ history of the case of Mrs. Martha Esmond vs. Dr. Henry B. Esmond, trial of which was suspended in Franklin county court late Saturday morning when a recess was taken to the first Monday in January, 1920, after the libellant had rested and the libelee had stated that it would be impossible to put in his evidence in less than two days. Judge Harrie B. Chase, who is presiding, was obliged to leave here Saturday and his time will be occupied in other courts until next year. After the libellant rested, the libelee made a motion for dismissal, which was denied. Trial of the case was begun last Thursday afternoon. The grounds alleged are intolerable severity and neglect and refusal to support, and Mrs. Esmond bases her accusation of intolerable severity partially upon the doctor’s alleged deception and fraud regarding his past life. It appeared, according to the libelant’s testimony, that, although Dr. Esmond represented himself, when he replied to her matrimonial advertisement, as a man of good character and standing, he was arrested while he and Mrs. Emond were on their wedding trip to Toronto, and also various matters regarding her husband’s past life have come to Mrs. Esmond’s attention from time to time. She testified that on her second visit to him when he was in jail she received a message before she reached him telling her to call for Marcus Eastman. In the trial of the case Policeman Dawson of Toronto testified that the man gave the name of Marcus Eastman when he was arrested. Mrs. Esmond testified regarding to the use of profane, abusive and vile language as the result of which she suffered from loss of sleep, could not eat, her nerves were impaired and she was obliged to seek advice from doctors. It was brought out that to this date she does not know on what charge her husband was arrested at Toronto. A series of exhibits were offered by the libellant as follows: A copy of an indictment filed in 1890 in the United States district court in Boston, containing a plea of guilty, by Henry Freeland Bradbury, setting up that Bradbury undertook to make fraudulent use of the mails by sending out pamphlets advertising falsely that there was a medical school at Bennington of which he was dean. The purpose was to get people to purchase from him bogus certificates and diplomas to practice medicine. A certificate of probate records in Boston, subsequent to the plea of guilty, whereby Henry Freeland Bradbury changed his name to Henry Bradbury Esmond. Copy of a decree of divorce secured at the June, 1907, term of Bennington county court by Anna S. Esmond, for intolerable severity. Copy of a bill of divorce granted to Fleda C. Esmond at the June, 1914, term of Windsor county court for intolerable severity. Saturday morning the indictment and plea of guilty in U.S. court were admitted temporarily by the court but later in an attempt to expedite the trial, the admission was withdrawn and the court suspended during on any of the offers until the reconvening of the court in January (Barre Daily Times (Barre, VT), November 17, 1919).
DR. ESMOND TESTIFIES HE BEAT FORMER WIFE. St. Albans, Jan. 6. – Trial of the case of Mrs. Martha J. Esmond vs. Dr. Henry B. Esmond, divorce, was resumed in Franklin county court this morning at nine o’clock with Dr. Esmond still on the stand under examination. Not until nearly noon were the examination by C.O. Austin, cross-examination by George M. Hogan and redirect examination completed. A.H. George was the next witness. In the examination to-day Dr. Esmond testified that the relations between himself and Mrs. Esmond were always pleasant and happy until the fall of 1918 when Mrs. Esmond rented rooms in the house during the doctor’s temporary absence from home. He testified that up to last spring the income from his medical practice was from $1,000 to $1,200 and this was expended on the family and property. In a gruelling cross-examination during which many exceptions were asked and granted Dr. Esmond admitted that in conversation with Mrs. Esmond before their marriage he had told her of a prosecution of himself in court in 1907 on the charge of pounding and assaulting a former wife to which he pleaded guilty and paid a fine. He was asked whether he ever told this wife before marriage of going by the following names: E.L. Needham. H.G. Bradbury, P.R. Bradbury, H.B. Freeland, P. Whipley Bradbury, P.G., Bradbury and E.A. Bradbury. He replied that he never did. When asked if he told her that he formerly went by the name of Harry Freeland, Bradbury replied that he did, that was his name. Dr. Esmond said he told his wife that two former wives had secured divorces from him and also told her he had pleaded guilty to a federal indictment against him In the United States court in Boston. A certified copy of the indictment was admitted as evidence under objection by the libellee’s counsel. The indictment was for misuse of the mails to issue bogus medical diplomas from a medical college in Bennington known as Trinity University, of which he was an official (Burlington Free Press, January 8, 1920).
GRANTED DIVORCE FROM DOCTOR. Mrs. Martha J. Esmond Wins Case in Franklin County Court. St. Albans, Jan. 10. Before taking final adjournment for the September term of Franklin county court to-day, Judge Harrie B. Chase granted a divorce to Mrs. Martha J. Esmond from her husband, Dr. Henry B. Esmond, whom she charged with intolerable severity. The case had been on trial for several days. Dr. Esmond is given $1,500 interest in the house of which he and Mrs. Esmond hold a joint deed (Barre Daily Times (Barre, VT), January 10, 1920).
Henry B. Esmond, a physician, aged fifty-one years (b. ME), headed a St. Albans, VT, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. He was divorced. He owned his house, free-and-clear.
CITY IN BRIEF. “FROM MY POINT of view vivisection is an unnecessary waste of time and money and is the cause of incalculable and uncalled-for suffering, the results of which are the most unreliable of any to be obtained in experimental medicine or laboratory work” H.B. Esmond, M.D., Ph.D., St. Albans, Vermont. Free literature. Box 1056, Spokane -Adv (Spokane Chronicle, March 4, 1926).
CHARLESTOWN, N.H. Dr. Henry B. Esmond, who has been located here for about a year, has moved to Milton Mills (Springfield Reporter (Springfield, VT), January 30, 1930).
His time in Milton Mills seems to have been quite brief – even briefer than his usual sojourn – perhaps as much as six months, but certainly for less than a year. Henry B. Esmond, M.D., of Milton Mills, signed the death certificates of Isaac Hussey (d. of heart disease, Milton Mills, March 31, 1930, aged eighty-six years), Ida R. (Eastman) Libby (d. of heart disease, Milton Mills, April 5, 1930, aged seventy-six years), James C. Hawksworth (d. of uremia, Milton Mills, April 28, 1930, aged seventy-one years), and perhaps others.
Henry B. Esmond, a general practice physician, aged sixty-one years (b. ME), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills Village”) household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census [April 5, 1930]. His household included his servant, George Barney, an odd jobs laborer, aged seventeen years (b. MA). Henry B. Esmond rented their house on Highland Street, for $10 per month.
Henry B. Esmond married (5th), in Buffalo, NY, October 18, 1933, Annie Ironside, he of Cumberland, ME, and she of Buffalo, NY.
MAINE DOCTOR, 64, WEDS BUFFALO WOMAN OF 70. BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct 20 (A.P.) After a 13-year romance a 70-year-old Buffalo woman and a 64-year-old Maine doctor have been married here, the bride revealed today. She is now Mrs. Henry B. Esmond. The doctor is a resident of Cumberland, Me., his bride, the former Mrs. Annie Ironside, explained. The doctor returned to Cumberland immediately after the ceremony yesterday, and Mrs. Esmond plans to join him in about a week (Boston Globe, October 21, 1933).
HARMONY. Dr. H.B. Esmond of Casco was calling on friends in town Sunday (Bangor Daily News (Bangor, ME), June 1, 1935).
Henry B. Esmond, a medical doctor, aged seventy-one years (b. ME), headed an Andover, ME, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his servant, Romeo Grondin, a private family servant, aged twenty-seven years (b. ME). Henry B. Esmond rented their house on Main Street, for $15 per month. He was a widower, with five years of college, who had resided in Casco, ME, in 1935. (Grondin had resided in Lewiston ME, in 1935).
No mention of him has come to hand after the October 1940 notation in his Social Security file regarding the spelling of his name. He is buried with his Bradbury family in Norway, ME.
Rauch, John H. (1891). Medical Education, Medical Colleges and the Regulation of the Practice of Medicine in the United States and Canada. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=NL00AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA94
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” – Aristotle.
January 2. The Earth will make its closest approach to the sun in its annual orbit.
January 3. Today we will have the Quadrantid meteor shower of the new year. This is from the Constellation Bootes. This named shower occurs in January and can be as rich and prolific as the Perseids or the Geminids. At times lasting for only a few hours, this will be at its peak intensity. Showers may seem faint in the night sky.
January 6. The Moon will be in its final quarter.
January 19. Today will bring another meteor shower: the y-Ursae Minorid from the Constellation Ursa Minor. This Constellation is also known as Little Bear when compared with Ursa Major.
January 20. The Moon will be at first quarter today.
January 21. Today, the Moon and Mars will rise closely with one another. Uranus will be joining the Moon and Mars. Mars is almost the smallest planet with the exception of Mercury. Uranus has 27 known moons.
January 23. Mercury will reach its greatest separation from the Sun today.
January 25. Mercury will reach its half phase today. This event may be a bit difficult to see with the naked eye.
January 26. Mercury will reach it’s highest point in the sky tonight. It is the smallest planet as well as the one closest to the Sun.
January 28. Full Moon today. Whereas it’s the second full Moon of winter, some refer to it as the Wolf Moon.
Charles William Gross was born in Brunswick, ME, December 11, 1842, son of William T. and Ellen (Quint) Gross.
He received his early education in the public schools, graduating from high school in 1859 (Bowdoin College, 1914).
Charles W. Gross, of Brunswick, ME, a farmer, aged twenty years (b. ME), single, registered for the Class I military draft in June 1863.
In early manhood he was engaged in farming, but began the study of medicine in 1866 with Dr. John D. Lincoln (Bowdoin, 1843), attended three courses of lectures at the Medical School of Maine, receiving his degree in 1869 (Bowdoin College, 1914).
(John D. Lincoln appeared in the Brunswick, ME, directory of 1867, as a physician, on Main street, corner of Lincoln street, with his house there also).
William Gross, a farmer, aged fifty-two years (b. ME), headed a Brunswick, ME, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Ellen S. Gross, keeping house, aged fifty-three years (b. ME), Charles W. Gross, a farmer, aged twenty-eight years (b. ME), Lizzie Gross, at home, aged twenty years (b. ME), and William Haskill, a farmer, aged seventeen years (b. ME). William Gross had real estate valued at $7,000 and personal estate valued at $1,650.
He continued his medical studies after graduation and began the practice of his profession at Acton, Maine, in May 1871. In October 1876 he removed to Milton Mills, N.H., where the remainder of his life was spent as an active and successful country physician (Bowdoin College, 1914).
The ME Medical Association approved C.W. Gross, of Acton, ME, for membership in the association at its meeting in Portland, ME, June 13, 1872 (ME Medical Association, 1873).
C.W. Gross appeared in the Milton directories of 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1880, as a physician at Milton Mills.
In the earlier portion of his career he pursued post-graduate courses in New York City and spent a summer and a fall in Europe (Bowdoin College, 1914).
Charles W. Gross, M.D., of New Hampshire, a graduate of the Medical School of Maine’s Class of 1869, was a medical student at Columbia University, in New York, NY, in the 1878-79 academic year (Columbia College, 1878).
Crosby B. Remick, a hotel keeper, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills”) household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Jennie Remick, keeping house, aed twenty-eight years (b. ME), his daughter, Ada Remick, at school, aged ten years (b. ME), and his boarders, Charles W. Gross, a physician, aged thirty-seven years (b. ME), and George Leavitt, a [-]iner, aged thirty years (b. NH). His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Ira Miller, a storekeeper, aged fifty-three years (b. ME), and Elvira W. Fox, keeping house, aged forty-four years (b. ME).
C.W. Gross appeared in the Milton directories of 1881, 1882, 1884, 1887, and 1889, as a physician at Milton Mills.
Charles W. Gross, M.D., of Milton Mills, reported on local contagious outbreaks to the NH State Board of Health, in 1886.
Typhoid Fever – Four cases in North Shapleigh, Me., all caused by water from contaminated wells. Think polluted water is the most common source of the disease in the country. Diphtheria – Eight cases. Found bad sanitary conditions in every case (Clarke, 1886).
W.F. Wallace, M.D., of Milton, reported five cases of typhoid fever in Milton and Lebanon, ME, but none of diphtheria.
He represented his town in the state legislature of 1887 and 1888 (Bowdoin College, 1914).
New Hampshire Medical Society. The New Hampshire Medical Society will hold its ninety-ninth annual meeting in Concord, N.H., on June 16 and 17, 1890. Dr. William Child of New Hampton will preside. The programme is an attractive one. Among the papers to be read, we note the following: Beverages of the Past and Present; What shall be the Beverage of the Future? – Dr. C.W. Gross, of Milton Mills; Ptomaines – Dr. C.P. Frost, of Hanover; Recent Epidemics of Diphtheria in Keene – Dr. H.K. Faulkner, of Keene; Necrology – Dr. J.J. Berry, of Portsmouth; Medical Men – Dr. Thomas Hiland, of Concord; Railway Hygiene – Dr. G.P. Conn, of Concord. An exhibition of drugs, chemicals, pharmaceutical preparations, foods, etc., will form an interesting additional feature (Dulles, 1890).
Regrettably, it seems that we may never know Dr. Gross’ opinion regarding the “Beverage of the Future.”
C.W. Gross appeared in the Milton directories of 1892, 1894, and 1898, as a physician at Milton Mills.
Street Railway Review. New Hampshire. Manchester, N.H. Milton Mills Electric elects Edward P. Parsons, president; John E. Townsend, vice president; C.W. Gross, M.D., treasurer; Freeman Loud, secretary (Windsor & Kenfield, 1893).
New Hampshire passed a medical licensing law, March 1, 1897, which required medical practitioners to be tested, licensed and registered as of September 1, 1897. (Charles William Gross, William Emerson Pillsbury, and Frank Sherman Weeks, of Milton Mills, and Malcolm A.H. Hart, Charles Dana Jones, and John Herbert Twombly, of Milton, were all rated “A”- they were already in practice prior to the passage of the law – i.e., they were “grandfathered in” and did not have to pass the new examination) (NH State Board of Education, 1906).
Charles D. Fox, a hotel keeper, aged forty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills Village”) household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirteen years), Hattie M. Fox, aged forty years (b. NH), his daughter, Edwina E. Fox, at school, aged six years (b. NH), his servants, Lucy Witham, a house servant, aged twenty-two years (b. ME), and Adah Renualt, a house servant, aged twenty years (b. NH), and his boarders, Charles W. Gross, a physician, aged fifty-seven years (b. ME), J. Edward La Bonte, a shoe trimmer, aged forty-nine years (b. Canada (Fr.)), Joshua S. Mathews, a shoe factory superintendent, aged fifty-four years (b. MA), May Ella Mathews, aged forty-nine years (b. ME), Harry Hamilton, a shoe puller-over, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), and John D. Hanson, a hostler, aged fifty years (b. NH). Charles D. Fox rented their house. Hattie M. Fox was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living. The hotel appeared in the enumeration between those of Asa A. Fox, an undertaker, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), and Maude A. Berry, a housekeeper, aged sixty-five years (b. NH).
C.W. Gross appeared in the Milton directories of 1901, 1904, 1905-06, and 1909, as a physician at Milton Mills. (In 1909 he resided at the Central House hotel).
He was a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society. His practice extended over several towns and he was highly esteemed and respected in the community (Bowdoin College, 1914).
The NH Medical Society approved C.W. Gross, M.D., of Milton Mills, for membership in the society at its meeting in Concord, NH, May 16, 1907 (NH Medical Society, 1907).
Fred Rowe, a hotel keeper, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills”) household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of nineteen years), Ellen Rowe, aged forty-two years (b. VT), his servant, Graces Lora, a hotel servant, aged twenty-eight years (b. ME), his clerk, Marcia St. Germain, a hotel clerk, aged seventy-three years (b. Canada (Fr.)), and his boarders, Charles W. Gross, a physician, aged seventy years (b. ME), John Jewett, a portable mill sawyer, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), Matt Archibald, a line stock dealer, aged forty years (b. NH), and Cecil Howard, a private family coachman, aged twenty-eight years (b. MA). Fred Rowe owned the hotel free and clear, without any mortgage. The hotel appeared in the enumeration between the households of Albert Wiggin, a woolen mill boss finisher, aged thirty-eight years (b. ME), and Wilde A. Miller, a woolen mill finisher, aged twenty-six years (b. ME).
C.W. Gross appeared in the Milton directory of 1912, as a physician at Milton Mills, resident at the Central House hotel.
Charles W. Gross [of Milton Mills, NH,] died of heart disease and apoplexy, i.e., a stroke, at the Maine General Hospital, in Portland, ME, January 8, 1912, aged sixty-nine years.
Dr. Gross died, unmarried, 7 Jan., 1912, at the Maine General Hospital at Portland from a complication of diseases (Bowdoin College, 1914).
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. Strafford, SS. Court of Probate. To the heirs-at-law of the estate of Charles W. Gross, late of Milton, in said County, deceased, intestate, and to all others interested therein: Whereas, Louise S. Fuller, administratrix of the state of said deceased, has filed in the Probate Office for said County, the account of her administration of said estate. You are hereby cited to appear at a Court of Probate to be holden at Dover, in said County, on the seventh day of September next, to show cause, if any you have, why the same should not be allowed. Said Administratrix is ordered to serve this citation by causing the same to be published once each week for three successive weeks in the Farmington News, a newspaper printed in Farmington, in said county, the last publication to be at least seven days before said Court. Given at Dover, in said County, this 9th day of August A.D., 1915. By order of the Court, WILLIAM W. MARTIN, Register (Farmington News, August 27, 1915).
George Washington Peavey was born in Rochester, NH, in December 1839, son of Thomas and Deborah A. (Sherbourne) Peavey.
Thomas Peavey, Jr., a farmer, aged forty-six years (b. NH), headed an Ossipee, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Deborah Peavey, aged fifty years (b. NH), George W. Peavey, a student at Reed, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), Joseph A. Peavey, a farmer, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Mary E. Peavey, aged eleven years (b. NH), and Lydia A. Peavey, aged nine years (b. NH). Thomas Peavey, Jr., had real estate valued at $3,000 and personal estate valued at $2,400. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Jonathan Ambrose, a farmer, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), and Benjamin F. Abbott, a blacksmith, aged fifty-two years (b. NH).
George Washington Peavey of Ossipee, NH, appeared as one of twenty-two first-course students at the Maine School of Medicine at Bowdoin College in 1860. His preceptor was Alvah Moulton, M.D. (Moulton was an Ossipee physician). Peavey subsequently attended Dartmouth College, where he received his medical degree with the Class of 1862.
George W. Peavey married (1st) in Ossipee, NH, August 15, 1860, Ann Eliza Thurston, both of Ossipee. He was a student, aged twenty years, and she was a domestic, aged nineteen years. Rev. Horace Wood performed the ceremony. She was born in Ossipee, NH, April 15, 1841, daughter of Isaac and Maria (Dodge) Thurston.
OSSIPEE, N.H., June 13, 1860. We take pleasure in recommending Greenleaf’s Series of Arithmetics as being the best with which we are acquainted for the use of Public Schools. H. WOOD, G.W. TEBBETTS, GEORGE W. PEAVEY, Superintending School Committee of Ossipee (Fisk, 1860).
George W. and Ann E. (Thurston) Peavey had one child, Charles Thurston Peavey, who died in Tuftonborough, NH, in March 1863. Ann E. (Thurston) Peavey died in Tuftonborough, NH, June 7, 1863.
George W. Peavey of Tuftonborough, NH, who had been drafted, hired William Burns of Boston, MA, in June 1864, to occupy his place in the Sixth Regiment, NH Volunteer Infantry. Burns was a sailor, aged twenty-three years, who had hazel eyes, brown hair, and stood 5′ 5″ tall.
George W. Peavey married (2nd) in Enfield, NH, August 5, 1864, Arabella Mary Hayes, both of Tuftonborough, NH. He was a physician, aged twenty-five years, and she was aged eighteen years. Rev. Frank Haley, pastor of the Enfield Congregational Church, performed the ceremony. She was born in Tuftonborough, NH, November 8, 1845, daughter of James and Mary D. (Caverly) Hayes.
George W. Peavey appeared in a NH register of 1866 as one of fifteen Tuftonborough justices-of-the-peace.
George W. Peavey appeared as a Milton physician in the Milton business directories of 1867-68, 1868, and 1869-70. He appeared also as a Milton justice-of-the-peace. He was an incorporator of the Milton Classical Institute in July 1867.
George W Peavey, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Mary A. Peavey, keeping house, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), and Edwin D. Wiggin, a hostler, aged twenty-three years (b. NH). George W. Peavey had personal estate valued at $680. He shared a two-family residence with the household of Ira W. Duntley, a blacksmith, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH). Their residence was enumerated between the households of John E. Twombly, a retail grocer, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), and George I. Jordan, a shoe cutter, aged thirty-seven years (b. ME).
George W. Peavey appeared as a Milton physician in the Milton business directories of 1871, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, and 1877. He appeared also as a Milton justice-of-the-peace..
George W. Peavey of Milton divorced Mary A. [(Hayes)] Peavey of Somersworth, NH, in Strafford Superior Court, February 19, 1878. He alleged “extreme cruelty, adultery, and treatment such as to seriously injure health.” (Such hyperbolic accusations were a legal requirement). She married (2nd), circa 1885, Elphranzo E. Downs (c1839-1904), and died in Lynn, MA, November 25, 1891.
George W. Peavey married (3rd) in Great Falls, i.e., Somersworth, NH, August 6, 1878, Esther Annette “Nettie” Churchill, he of Rochester, NH, and she of Brookfield, NH. He was a doctor, aged thirty-nine years, and she was aged twenty-two years. Rev. P.W. Perry, pastor of the Green Street Free-Will Baptist Church, performed the ceremony. She was born in Brookfield, NH, December 22, 1854, daughter of Thomas L. “Lindsay” and Sarah A. (Stackpole) Churchill.
George W. Peavey, M.D., died in Somersworth, NH, September 15, 1879, aged thirty-nine years.
[Dartmouth College] Class of 1862. George Washington Peavey, b. Dec., 1839, Rochester, N.H. Physician, Tuftonboro, N.H.; Milton, N.H.; Great Falls, N.H., 1878-79. d. 15 Sept., 1879 (Dartmouth, 1900).
Annette E. (Churchill) Peavey married (2nd) in Boston, MA, July 9, 1884, Charles G. Hovey, who died in Boston, MA, November 3, 1896. She married (3rd) in Boston, MA, September 26, 1899, Caleb Saunders (who died in Lawrence, MA, December 20, 1917).
Annette E. (((Churchill) Peavey) Hovey) Saunders died in Lawrence, MA, January 10, 1911.
DEATHS. SAUNDERS. In Boston. Jan. 10, Annette E.. wife of Hon. Caleb Saunders of Lawrence. Funeral services at Grace church, Lawrence, Friday, at 2:30 p.m. (Boston Globe, January 12, 1911).
Dr. Frank S. Weeks, of Milton Mills, was admitted to membership in the Strafford District Medical Society, at its meeting at the Kimball House in Dover, NH, October 31, 1907. He spoke at the meeting at which he was admitted (NH Medical Society, 1908).
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John Wallace appeared in the Milton directory of 1900, as a physician, with his house at 22 S. Main street. (He left for Roxbury, i.e., Boston, MA, prior to June 1900).
Daughter Mary J. Wallace married in the Roxbury district of Boston, MA, September 21, 1922, Robert Whitelaw Smith.
W.E. Pillsbury appeared in the Milton business directories of 
Henry B. Esmond married (1st) in Houlton, ME, August 6, 1893, Julia S. (Ganong) Colby, both of Houlton, ME. He was a physician, aged thirty-three years (b. Frost Corner), and she was a housekeeper, aged thirty-six years (b. St. John, New Brunswick). She was a widow. Rev. O.R. Crosby performed the ceremony. She was born in St. John, New Brunswick, circa 1856, daughter of John E. and Mary (Whittaker) Ganong.
Bethel Local Intelligence. Dr. H.B. Esmond of Brattleboro will settle in Bethel for the practice of medicine. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Nashville, the New York Medical college and has taken a post-graduate course of medical study in London, England. His office and residence will be on River street. Dr. Esmond has practised medicine eighteen years, of which nine were in Vermont and six in Maine. He is a widower and his family consists of himself and his mother (Herald and News (Randolph, VT), November 21, 1907).
RANDOLPH. Fleda, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. White, after a years illness from a complication of diseases, is now so much better that she is able to be dressed and about the house. She was taken in December of 1906 with violent hiccoughing, nausea and great distress of the stomach, and the attack was followed by cerebro-spinal meningitis, from which she partially recovered, only to suffer a relapse that left her with a chronic spinal trouble. A tumor then developed in the stomach, and the frequent gathering and breaking of abscesses, with constant distress and nausea, made it impossible for scarcely any food to be retained. This painful condition continued for nearly a year in spite of every effort made for her relief, but in the last few weeks she has gained steadily under the treatment of Dr. H.B. Esmond of Bethel, to whose home she went the 23d inst. in order to be more easily cared for (Herald and News (Randolph, VT), January 30, 1908).
He was a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society. His practice extended over several towns and he was highly esteemed and respected in the community (Bowdoin College, 1914). 
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