Plymouth memories of an octogenarianDavis, William T. (William Thomas)
History
Plymouth memories of an octogenarian
Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
Plymouth (Mass.) -- History
Dr. Andrew Mackie, son of Dr. Andrew of Wareham, was born in 1799,
and graduated at Brown in 1814. He came to Plymouth in 1829, and
lived on the corner of Market and Leyden streets, and in the house
next below the rooms of Mr. Beaman on Middle street. He removed to
New Bedford soon after 1832.
Dr. John Flavel Gaylord, son of Ebenezer and Jane (Phelps) Gaylord,
was born in Amherst, Mass., March 22, 1852. He fitted for college
at the Hopkin’s Grammar school and graduated at Yale in 1876. He
took his degree from the Yale Medical school in 1878, and completed
his studies in 1879 and 1880 at the University of Berlin, and at
Heilbronn. On his return home he practised a few years in Cincinnati,
and settled in Plymouth in 1889, where he married Susan, daughter of
William Rider Drew, and died April 14, 1903.
Dr. Charles James Wood came to Plymouth in 1866 and settled in
Chiltonville. He was son of Leonard Wood, and was born in Leicester,
Mass., February 18, 1827, and was educated at the Leicester Academy.
He practised in Barre, Chiltonville, Sandwich and Pocasset, in
which latter place he died August 25, 1880. I remember him as
attending with Dr. Alexander Jackson in Manomet Ponds, the sailors
who were wrecked in the bark Velma in 1867. He was the father of
General Leonard Wood, now in the Philippines, who attended school in
Chiltonville.
Dr. John C. Bennett appeared in Plymouth in 1835, and advertised
himself an eclectic physician “formerly professor of obstetric
medicine and surgery.” The various medicines prepared by him were
claimed to be infallible ones for many diseases; and of a tooth
extractor invented by him, it was said by an enthusiastic friend that
it made the extraction of a tooth an operation of pleasure instead
of pain. He married Sally, daughter of Job Rider of Plymouth, and
lived and had his office on Summer street. The introduction by him
of the Plymouth Rock breed of fowls gave him a reputation of a more
substantial character than his medicines. In 1842 he published “The
History of the Saints,” an expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism.
Dr. John Bachelder, son of John and Mary Bachelder, was born in
Mason, N. H., March 23, 1818, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1841. He
began to practice in Monument in 1844, and married Martha Swift Keene
of Sandwich, September 30, 1846, afterwards removing to Plymouth,
where he died October 28, 1876.
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