Henry Louis Hammond, M.D., Killingly.

FREDERICK A. MORRELL, M.D., PUTNAM.

Dr. Henry Louis Hammond of Dayville, Killingly, who was well known throughout the State of Connecticut and New England, died the 17th of July on a Pullman sleeper in Texas, on his way home from California.

Dr. Hammond was born September 7th, 1842, and was the son of Dr. Justin Hammond, who was one of the best-known practicing physicians for forty-six years in Windham County. He was also a resident of Killingly and married Susan Peckham, a daughter of Dr. Peckham, who has at the present time one grandson and two granddaughters eminent medical practitioners. The same can be said of Dr. Justin Hammond's family, as Dr. Henry Louis Hammond has two sisters who are well known as skilled physicians.

The subject of this sketch attended the public schools of his native town and was under the tutelage of Gilbert Tracy, who was at that time a very noted and efficient teacher. On leaving the public schools he entered Williston Seminary, from which he graduated with high honors in 1861. He then entered Brown University, from which institution he graduated with a diploma of B.P. in 1864.

The same year he entered the Harvard Medical College, but as there was a call at that time for army surgeons, he with others went to the South as assistant surgeon of the twenty-fifth Army Corps, where he remained until the close of the war. He then entered Harvard again and graduated in 1866 as M.D. He then returned to Killingly and practiced medicine with his father for one year. A flattering opportunity was then offered him in New Jersey to become police surgeon and city physician of Hudson City. In this city he was very successful in treating small-pox and measles, which were prevalent at the time.

From Hudson City he went to Saratoga Springs in 1870 and was house physician at the United States Hotel for ten years. There he contracted malignant scarlet fever, which so impaired his health that he was advised to take a sea voyage, and in the fall of 1880 he shipped on a sloop loaded with lumber, making the rounds of the southern and western islands on a year's voyage. He then returned to Dayville and took up practice and was very successful in the treatment of children's diseases. He made a rule never to accept calls in the night and adhered to it strictly. Dr. Hammond's life has been a most active one and he filled a large number of high positions in different societies; among which may be mentioned that of Chancellor Commander of his home lodge, Knights of Pythias, and he also held office in the Grand Lodge of that order. He was a member of Shetucket Lodge of Odd Fellows in Norwich and a member of Unity Encampment of that Order; also P. M. W. of the A. O. U. W. and also a member of Putnam Lodge of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and has held the office of Grand Exalted Ruler with honor.

In his native town the citizens have honored him and placed him in offices of trust; he has been selectman and president of the Board of Education many years. He was president of the Washington, Warren and Saratoga County Medical Society in 1878; a member of the State Medical Society of New Jersey and honorary member of the Rhode Island State Medical Society. He was one of the corps of consulting physicians of the Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam and was secretary of the United States Pension Examiners in Norwich 1888-1890 and president of the Windham County Medical Society in 1897. He was a member of the American Medical Association and many times a delegate to their annual meetings. He was chosen delegate from his native state to the Pan-American Medical Congress at Havana, Cuba, in 1901 and also again to the Pan-American Medical Congress at Panama in 1905. He has written many interesting articles relating to his trips and also articles on subjects relating to medicine. He was a man of great geniality and a capital story-teller.

Dr. Hammond was twice married, first to Miss Emma Rawson of Norwich in 1870, who died thirteen years ago, and second to Miss Cora Ward of Niles, Mich., who survives him. The only living members of his family are his two sisters, Dr. Ellen Hammond Gladwin of Hartford, Conn., and Dr. Susan Hammond Field of Boston, Mass.

He had for some years been in the habit of spending the winters in the South and California; the rest of the year he divided between his home in Dayville and his home in Niles, Mich., where he also held a license to practice his profession. Last winter he spent with his wife traveling through Arizona, spending most of his time at Castle Hot Springs, a charming place in the mountains, where he rapidly gained in health, going from there to Pasadena, where he was stricken with apoplexy in April. He met the affliction with his accustomed gaiety of heart, but after a while grew rapidly worse, and by the advice of his physicians attempted the journey home, accompanied by his wife, physician and nurse.

Dr. Hammond was well known throughout a wide section, socially as well as professionally, as he was an extensive traveler. He was a highly cultured man and his uniform courtesy of manner and his generous and kindly nature have won for him a multitude of friends who mourn his demise.

By his death this Society has lost a member who had its welfare at heart, a regular attendant at our meetings and always ready to help make them interesting and profitable. As he was ever ready with his jokes and good stories, none of us will ever forget the geniality and whole-souled good fellowship he gave to our open dinner talks. His connection with this Society was such that we shall not soon forget him.

James David McGaughey, M.D., Wallingford.

FRANK H. WHITTEMORE, M.D., NEW HAVEN.

James D. McGaughey, M.D., died at his home in Wallingford, October 31st, 1910. He commenced to fail in health in consequence of arterial sclerosis about five years before his death, interstitial nephritis being one of its most troublesome symptoms. The immediate cause of his death was pneumonia, to which he succumbed in a few hours.

Dr. McGaughey was sixty-four years of age. He was born in Greenville, Tenn., August 6th, 1848, of Scotch-Irish ancestry on his father's side and German-English on his mother's. He first attended school in 1854, going to a small boys' department in a young ladies' seminary in his home town. From this he went to the old Greenville College, the oldest institution of learning in the state. During the Civil War, a number of Confederate troops quartered in Greenville took the college for a small-pox hospital, destroyed all the apparatus of the college and one of the finest libraries in the state. Determined to pursue his studies, he now entered a private school, which was also disbanded on account of hostilities in that section. Next he took instructions under a private tutor, Robert McCorkle, and continued his studies under great difficulty, sometimes being unable to reach his tutor's home on acount of guerilla warfare. Finally he entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1866 and was graduated in 1870, after which he practiced in East Tennessee for one year. In 1871 he married Sarah V. Cannon, of Wallingford, Conn., and settled there. He soon built up a large and successful practice. He was most devoted to his profession and untiring in his work, always keeping abreast of the times. He was an exceptionally good diagnostician and a very able practitioner. His fellow townsmen held him in high esteem and in 1880 he represented Wallingford as a member of the State Legislature,

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and took part in the debate on the final settlement of the boundary line between New York and Connecticut, which had been in dispute over two hundred years. He was Medical Examiner from

the time the office was first created in Wallingford until his death, a period of twenty-eight years.

"The erection of a monument is superfluous-the memory of us will last if we have deserved it in our lives!" In Dr. McGaughey's death the State Medical Society mourns a worthy member and Wallingford the loss of a good man and well-beloved physician.

A widow and three children survive him, a son and two daughters; his son, J. D. McGaughey, Jr., M.D., succeeding his father in practice in Wallingford.