Reminiscences of a country doctor, ca. 1918-1939.

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Reminiscences of a country doctor, ca. 1918-1939.

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22-page annotated typescript by Alfred Worcester, a physician and professor of hygiene at Harvard who treated members of the Boston social elite and the wounded veterans of several wars. Memoir relates anecdotes about patients including Charles F. Adams and Henry Adams, reminiscences about Episcopal Bishop Phillips Brooks, and a brief description of the involvement of Alice M. Bacon and Gen. Samuel C. Armstrong in the Dixie Hospital's training school for Afro-American nurses. Also includes accounts told to Worcester of Civil War battles (including the attack on Ft. Wagner by the 54th Mass. Volunteers), the sinking of the Maine and the origins of the Spanish-American War.

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Adams, Henry, 1838-1918

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Henry Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, was educated at Harvard and served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, when he was Minister to England. He rejected a political career to teach history at Harvard and edit The North American review, 1870-1877, then returned to Washington. He wrote prolifically on many subjects and is best known for his Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904) and The education of Henry Adams (1907). From the description of Henry Adam...

Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915

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Soldier, businessman, civic leader and historian. Descendant of two presidents and the son of a noted diplomat, Adams served with distinction as a Union officer during the Civil War. After the war, he became a nationally recognized authority on the railroad industry, chairing the Massachusetts Railroad Commission from 1869 to 1879, and ultimately taking on the presidency of the Union Pacifc Railroad for six stormy years, 1884-1890. From 1890 to 1915, Adams was content to be a man of a...

Worcester, Alfred E., 1855-1951.

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Armstrong, S. C. (Samuel Chapman), 1839-1893

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Bacon, Alice Mabel, 1858-1918

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Maine (Battleship)

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USS Maine (BB/2C), an armored battle ship, was blown up in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898. A court of inquiry was unable to obtain evidence regarding the cause of the ship's destruction. In August 1910, Congress authorized the raising of the ship. The hull was refloated and towed into the Gulf of Mexico where it was sunk with honors on March 16, 1912. From the description of Photographs and diary; 1910-1912. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 46425385 ...

Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893

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Brooks was an Episcopal clergyman. He was rector of Trinity Church, Boston (1868-1893) and bishop of Massachusetts (1891-1893). From the description of Sermons and lectures, 1858-1891. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 81069474 From the description of Correspondence and compositions, 1831-1901 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79390105 From the description of Papers, 1832-1892. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122575025 ...