Board, feeling he must "do his bit" as he was not able to take a more active part. It was during the influenza epidemic in the fall that he showed his great love of humanity and forgetfulness of self. Until completely exhausted he went among his patients ministering help and comfort. Often he was obliged to sit for a rest at the top of a flight of stairs, which he had climbed, before entering the sick-room. Finally he fell a victim to the dread disease himself, and the day after Thanksgiving he took to his bed. Heart trouble set in and death followed, March 25, 1919.

His earliest friends speak of him as always quiet and considerate, as his patients and friends found him in later life. Nothing was too arduous to relieve the sufferings of those with whose care he was entrusted. His large clientele hold his memory in loving remembrance as that of one who was all that is best in his profession. He was an affectionate son and brother. He was a loyal and true friend, as the host of those who mourn his death testify. He was a lover of good pictures, flowers and the beautiful. He enjoyed the company of children, showing the simplicity of his character, and to one and all he was the sympathetic gentleman, as well as the highest type of a medical doctor.

I have known Dr. Monahan since he entered the practice of medicine in New Haven. We were neighbors and practiced in the same locality. He was of a modest, retiring disposition, with a pleasing personality. He had a keen sense of humor, which was greatly appreciated by his patients, who enjoyed his optimistic visits.

Dr. Monahan was a practitioner of great merit, whose diagnosis was accurate, technic careful, and treatment efficient. He never had an unkind word to say of his fellow practitioner, and his word was as good as his bond.

He was affiliated with the American Medical Association, New Haven and State Medical Societies, fourth degree, Knights of Columbus, Holy Name Society, the Elks, the Septimo, and the Eagles. He was for some years a Medical Inspector of Public Schools in New Haven.

He was buried in Southington in the family plot.

"None knew him but to love him,

None named him but to praise."

Louis Ovide Morasse, M.D., Putnam, Conn.

FREDERICK A. MORRELL, M.D., Putnam, Conn.

Dr. Louis Ovide Morasse died in Putnam on June 30, 1918. He was born in Sorel, Province of Quebec, Canada, November 15, 1860, and was the eldest son of Louis and Annette (Pouliot) Morasse.

At the age of twelve years he entered the Seminary of Three Rivers. He was graduated from Sorel College in 1878. He was a classmate of the Honorable Sir Lomer Gouin, Premier of the Province of Quebec. After his graduation from Sorel College, he attended a medical course at the Victoria University at Montreal and received his diploma in 1884.

He commenced practicing medicine in Sorel, remaining there until 1885 when he removed to Southbridge, Mass., and in 1887 he came to Putnam, Conn., succeeding Dr. F. X. Barolet, who had practiced in Putnam for several years.

He was married May 3, 1886, to Miss Zelia Bronze, who survives him.

In 1904 he went to Paris for his health and for a further study of medicine. He left Paris in 1908 and came to Woonsocket, R. I., and bought the drug store of Dr. Maranda and remained in Woonsocket for three years when he returned to Putnam, Conn., in 1912, and resumed the practice of medicine.

He was always interested in public affairs and held many positions connected with his practice as a physician. At the time of his death he was Health Officer for the city of Putnam and Town Physician for the town of Putnam. He was a member of the Putnam Lodge of Elks, the Putnam Lodge of Owls, the Putnam Lodge of the Knights of Columbus, the Artisans, the Union St. Jean Baptist and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and was examiner for all these different orders.

For many years he held the office of Justice of the Peace and Notary Public.

Dr. Morasse was always prominent in the French Canadian Conventions and was very earnest and successful in his efforts

to raise the people of his country to high standards of living and American citizenship. His advice and counsel were eagerly sought by newly arrived Canadians in this vicinity, and his constant endeavor was to make the people coming from Canada feel at home in the land of their adoption.

He was a man of genial disposition and had many and close friends amongst all classes of citizens. As a physician, he was capable and successful. As a man he was upright and honest, and the friends who mourn him, both within the profession and without, are innumerable.

Rienzi Robinson, M.D., Danielson.

GEORGE M. BURROUGHS, M.D., Danielson.

Dr. Rienzi Robinson was born in Canterbury, Conn., May 31, 1842, son of Ralph W. and Mary Wheeler Robinson, and was one of a family of six children. In his childhood days the family moved to a farm in Hampton, Conn., where he spent a strenuous life until he left the farm. He attended the Hampton School and later the Killingly High School, when the duties on the farm would permit, never being able to begin the school year until the fall harvesting was done.

He was strong, wiry, and very active, and has given the writer interesting accounts of his contests with the scythe, loading hay and other work on the farm with the best and fastest workers of the neighborhood. This spirit of industry continued through his long and useful life.

In early life he had a desire to become a lawyer and through the influence of a mutual friend arrangements were made for him to enter the office of a prominent lawyer at Hartford; but his father vetoed the plan, so he began teaching school.

In the early part of the Civil War he was engaged in a government clerkship at Washington. In 1865 he returned to his work as school teacher at Jewett City. It was there that he met Mrs. Jane Douglass Prentice, a teacher in the school, and on September 12, 1866, they were married at her home in Griswold, Conn. Soon after their marriage they went to Hudson, Ohio, where he was engaged in life insurance work. It was not long before the position as principal of the grammar school at Ravenna, Ohio, was offered him and he accepted, his wife. accepting a position as assistant teacher.

It was while he held that position that he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of a local physician. After finishing the school year at Ravenna he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, later going to the Long Island College Hospital where he was graduated with the class of 1869.

In September, 1869, he came to Danielson and purchased the practice and property of Dr. J. W. Martin, whose house was located on the site of the present town hall. At a later date, there being an urgent demand for a town hall, centrally located, Dr. Robinson sold the property to the Music Hall Company, who erected the building which is now the Killingly Town Hall, but was for a number of years known as Music Hall. He was one of the principal promoters and an original stockholder in the enterprise. In 1884 he built the house on the corner of Main and Winter Streets which he occupied up to the time of his death.

Dr. Robinson was an enthusiastic reader of literature pertaining to the practice of medicine and kindred subjects. He had a retentive memory which served him well in his practice and in consultations. He was a hard worker, but he believed that all work and no play was not good for a busy physician. Accordingly he took a number of trips for rest and recreation, including those to Europe, Egypt, Cuba, California, Yellowstone Park and Florida. On a number of occasions he took a short time off to attend clinics in New York and Boston. A number of physicians, including Drs. Bassett, Sawtelle, Danielson, and Bates, began the study of medicine with Dr. Robinson as preceptor.

He was fond of chess and of auction bridge and the writer recalls many pleasant evenings spent in friendly rivalry at the latter game. He was also fond of music and in early life played the flute but later took up the violin. It was his custom when tired, mentally and physically, to play his violin.

He was a judge of horses and always drove a good one. For a number of years he resented the intrusion of the automobile, but finally sold his horse and bought a car.

He was a believer in, and an ardent worker for, temperance.

He was vitally interested in the welfare of his town and its people. For a number of years he was a director of the public library and a trustee of the Brooklyn Savings Bank; he was also a member of the building committee of the Killingly High School. Dr. Robinson was a past-master of Moriah Lodge No. 15, A. F. & A. M.

In the early years of his practice Dr. Robinson was assisted by his wife, a beautiful woman of amiable disposition and loved.