from
History of Providence County, Rhode Island
Richard M. Bayles, Editor, Vol. I
New York: W. W. Preston & Co., 1891
Chapter IV - The Profession of Medicine (part 17)
pp. 114 - 117.
"Charles F. Marston, M.D., son of John L. and Hannah F. Marston, was born in
Lawrence, Kansas, in 1863. In his early years his parents moved to
Manchester, N.H., where he lived three years, and then removed to Rhode
Island. His early business years were spent in a grocery. He was educated
in Baltimore (Md.) College, and graduated in medicine March 15th, 1888, and
on the first of the following November he opened an office for practice in
Providence, and has thus far been very successful.
Elmer E. Moore, M.D., was born in Hartford, Vermont, October 10th, 1861.
His parents were Doctor David Comstock Moore and his wife, Hannah A. When
our subject was about ten years old he removed with his parents to South
Royalton, Vermont, where his father practiced medicine, and during part of
the time was interested in the drug business in the place. The elder served
during part of the war as a volunteer surgeon, located most of the time at
Point Lookout, Maryland, and at the close of the war returned to South
Royalton, remaining there till 1872, removing then to Charlestown, N.H.,
carrying on the apothecary business there awhile, and returning to South
Royalton, where he died October 9th, 1876. After his death the family,
consisting of the widow and two sons, James S. and Elmer E., removed to
Boston. Here the subject of this sketch was educated in the public
schools, and after passing the high school spent two years in the famous
Eliot School at Jamaica Plain. After leaving school he spent nearly five
years in the drug business in Vermont and later in Boston. At the latter
place he attended the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. In 1883 he began
the study of medicine, in 1885 entered the medical department of the
University of Vermont at Burlington, and from there went to the medical
department of the Dartmouth College, where he graduated in June, 1886. In
the following September he located at East Providence Centre, where he has
met with considerable success, being surrounded in domestic affairs by his
mother and brother James.
Le Roy Albert Merrill, M.D., was born in Roxbury, Vt., May 23d, 1855. He
was the eldest son of Albert and Adelina (Young) Merrill. After attending
the district schools he was sent to Barre Academy (Vt.), and afterward took
a classical course at the University of Vermont. He studied medicine with
Doctor Le Roy Bingham, of Burlington, Vt., and graduated, after a full
course of lectures, in 1882, from the medical department of the University
of Vermont. He commenced the practice of medicine at St. Albans, Vt., in
1882, and came to Lonsdale in 1884, where he still continues.
Dennis McCaffrey was born in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, in April, 1844.
He came to America when he was ten months old with his parents, Owen and
Catherine McCaffrey. After attending school at Woonsocket eight years he
moved to Martinsburgh, Pike county, Ill, in April, 1865. He finished his
preliminary education at Illinois College, Jacksonville, in 1867; taught
school in Pike county, Ill., four years; studied medicine with Doctor John
A. Thomas, of Pleasant Hill, and Doctor Joseph H. Ledlie, of Pittsfield,
three years; entered St. Louis Medical College, Mo., in September, 1871, and
graduated from that institution in 1874. He came to North Smithfield in
December, 1874, and has since resided and practiced medicine in that place.
He was married to Catherine J. Rowan, September 5th, 1877, in St. Paul's
Catholic church, Blackstone, Mass. They have six children: Charles W., John
F., Hugo E., Veronica, Thomas a'Kempis and Mary Catherine; the last one
being born December 22d, 1889.
Napoleon Malo, M.D., was born in St. Marc, Province of Quebec, Canada,
September 29th, 1857. His father was Claus Malo, a well-to-do farmer of the
place, who has served four years in Parliament, as a member of the general
assembly representing the county of Vercheres. His mother was Elionore
Supierre. Attending in his youth a school kept by his uncle in the vicinity
of his home, he was prepared at the age of nine to follow a classical course
at St. Hyacinthe College, to which he was sent. There he continued until
about the middle of the fifth year, while in the class of 'belles-lettres',
his course was arrested by the order of the physician, who saw gathering
symptoms of pulmonary difficulty in the young student. He then went into
the employ and at the same time under the instruction of his uncle, Joseph
Caderre, a merchant in the parish of St. Antoine, where he worked in the
store, and took lessons of his uncle, who was a highly educated man, having
passed a full nine years' course in St. Hyacinthe College and studied for
the priesthood two years and a half. He also had the help of the curate of
the parish toward completing his classical course. He studied and received
his degree of M.D. at the Victoria Medical College of Montreal in the spring
of 1879. He has been practicing for some time in Pawtucket and is about
changing his residence to Central Falls. He married Miss Odelie Bernier of
Providence, in the fall of 1881.
Miles Manchester, M.D., was born in the town of Cranston, October 4th, 1777,
and died in Pawtucket, June 15th, 1843. He was the son of Job Manchester.
Commencing the study of medicine with Doctor Benjamin Dyer, in 1793, after
three years spent with him he continued the study with Doctor Caleb Fiske of
Scituate until the year 1800, when he returned to his father's home in
Cranston and commenced the practice of medicine. In 1802 he removed to
Johnston, where he married Phebe, daughter of Pardon Fenner. In August,
1806, he removed to Pawtucket, where he continued the practice of medicine
until his death. He was a charter member of the Rhode Island Medical
Society. At his death he left three children, none of whom are now living.
Charles F. Manchester, M.D., was born in Pawtucket, February 7th, 1805,
being the son of Doctor Miles and Phebe Fenner Manchester. After attending
the local schools he entered the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, Conn., and
graduated from Brown University in September, 1825. He received his degree
of M.D., from Harvard Medical College, in August, 1828. After practicing
according to the allopathic system for eleven years he embraced the
principles of homeopathy in 1840, and was one of the founders of the
American Institution of Homeopathy. He began his labors as a physician in
Pawtucket, afterward practiced in Providence and New York city, but returned
to Pawtucket in 1842, and practiced there until his death, April 5th, 1878.
He was twice married: first to Amelia Ames, of Providence, by whom he had
three children - Susan A., wife of Latham H. Clarke, of Brooklyn; Charles
Miles, now of New York; and Maria L., wife of A. Boyd Shedan, of Brooklyn;
and second to Kate E. Le Valley, of Pawtucket, by whom he had no children.
Doctor Manchester became a member of the Rhode Island Medical Society in
1838, and was surgeon of the Pawtucket Life Guard. He was the first
president of the First National Bank of Pawtucket.
Thomas Henry McNally, M.D., was born in Cranston, March 7th, 1855. After
leaving the public schools he attended LaSalle Academy, at Providence, and
then studied medicine with Doctors T. G. and W. W. Potter of that city. He
then took two courses of lectures at Detroit, Mich., Medical College, and
two more at the University of Burlington, Vt., graduating in 1886. He began
the practice of medicine at Central Falls in 1887.
Joseph E. V. Mathieu, M.D., of Central Falls, was born in St. Barnabe,
Province of Quebec, August 8th, 1856. He took a classical course at St.
Hyacinthe, and in 1876 entered Victoria Medical College, Montreal, where he
graduated in 1879. In the spring of the same year he began the practice of
medicine in Central Falls, where he now resides. He is a member of the
Rhode Island Medical Society.
William C. Monroe, M.D., was born in Woonsocket in 1850. He was educated at
Woonsocket High School, at the Friends' School, of Providence, and at
Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York city, where he graduated in
1876. He began the practice of medicine in Woonsocket the same year. He
was for a number of years connected with the school board, and is now a
member of the hospital staff. He married Carrie M., daughter of William W.
Remington, of Phenix, in 1876.
Doctor Thomas Nutting, of Georgiaville, was a prominent member of his
profession in the town of Smithfield for many years. He was a self-made
man, and possessed a great deal of energy. He was a prominent supporter of
the Universalist church at the place mentioned. After having practiced
medicine at Georgiaville about 40 years he died there in the spring of 1886,
at the ripe age of 76 years."
continued in part 18.
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Johnston, RI USA
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