IN MEMORIAM.

ALWYN HARDING CHESSMORE, M. D.

BY C. J. RUSSELL, HINESBurgh, Vt.

Alwyn Harding Chessmore, M. D., was born in Warren, Vermont, Oct. 17th, 1837. When eight years of age his father died, and soon after his mother, in humble circumstances, moved to Chelsea, Vt., where, in the common schools of that town, the subject of this sketch laid the foundation for his future education and usefulness. At the age of 16, by patient toil and perseverance, he was able to enter the Academy at Johnson, where he fitted for College, but before entering he concluded to begin the study of his chosen profession without more delay than was necessary while obtaining the means. In 1856 he attended lectures at the Castleton Medical College, and the next spring he entered the office of Dr. Goodwin of Rockford, Ill., where he continued his studies, teaching school winters until the winter of 1859 and 60, when he entered the Medical Department of the University of Vermont.

So thorough had been his previous application that in the following June he received from that institution the degree of M. D. He immediately located in Huntington, Vt., forming a co-partnership with the late Dr. Geo. W. Bromley, whom he soon bought out, and continued to practice until the fall of 1862. At the beginning of that war which deluged the nation with fraternal blood, he entered the Union Army as assistant surgeon of the 5th Regiment Vermont Volunteers, but was soon promoted to the position of surgeon of the 5th Regiment, and by virtue of this rank soon became brigade surgeon. He shared in all the vicissitudes of the Army of the Potomac from this time on, until September 25th, 1864, when he was mustered out in the Shenandoah Valley, and returned to Huntington. But the war was not yet ended, and the Doctor could not remain away from the field of activity. He returned to City Point, Va., where he served as contract surgeon until the close of the war. He then returned to Huntington, the town of his adoption, where he continued to reside until the day of his death.

Dr. Chessmore was not only a very successful physician, but he was also very prominent in business matters, having the personal supervision of a circular saw-mill, clapboard-mill, shingle-mill, planing-mill, cheese-box factory, and custom grist-mill, all of which he owned,

In politics he was a stanch republican, and was a member of the State Senate, from his county, in 1874, and represented his town in the lower house in 1886. At the establishment of the State Board of Health in 1886, Dr. Chessmore was appointed one of the three members, and was made president of the Board, which position he held at the time of his death.

He married a daughter of Hon. Henry Gillette of Richmond, who died about fourteen years ago leaving a son, who still survives.

Dr. Chessmore died of pneumonia Jan. 27th, 1891, after a short illness. He was taken violently ill at the onset of the disease, and realized his condition to the end. The funeral was held January 29th, with Masonic honors, and the remains were taken to Richmond for interment beside the body of his wife.

SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF DR. C. L. ALLEN.

BY C. S. CAVERLY, RUTLAnd, Vt.

A modest, unassuming man, quiet in manner, slow and deliberate of speech, short in stature, large, well formed head, with truly patriarchal gray hair and long gray beard, prominent features and brown eyes, was for many years a familiar object in Rutland County and throughout western Vermont. The casual visitor, the stranger, stopped to observe that face. It was one that impressed itself on the memory and once seen was recognized again. Kindliness and intelligence were strongly visible, and to the public eye, as well as to the eye of the patient sufferer in the sick room, it personified these characteristics.

The latter generation of physicians in and about Rutland, are likely long to hear the name of Dr. C. L. Allen, as standing for the thoughtful, self-sacrificing, sympathetic physician.

Dr. Allen was first and foremost a student. He was to an extraordinary extent a "well read man." He was not an orator or a man of words, but he was a thinker. His patients knew when they consulted him that he would give them thoughtful attention. I have often seen him after physically examining a puzzling case, sit by the bedside with eyes steadily fixed on the patient for several minutes in deep thought, saying nothing and hardly moving a muscle. The result was manifested after we retired to the consultation room. How many physicians can give personal testimony to the worth of this thoughtful man's advice; and more-how many of us can bear witness to the truly gentlemanly

courtesy that always marked his relations to his professional brethren Some of us have seen him under trying circumstances, when it would have been easy if not human to criticise unkindly other physicians, yet Dr. Allen's references to other's mistakes were invariably couched in charitable and kindly words. It is rarely the privilege of a physician of so long experience to leave such a record. Dr. Allen was always a gentleman and none of us among whom he worked and studied can forget the courtesy he invariably displayed toward us.

He was devoted to his profession and never forsook the high and honorable ideal which he had established for himself. He did not labor for the pecuniary reward which stimulates many to unusual efforts to become successful practitioners. He never soiled his fingers with usurious practices, nor indulged the vulgar scramble for riches, nor squeezed poverty for financial reward. He was an honest man withal, and no better evidence could be had of his forgetfulness of self and his devotion to science and humanity, than the modest size of his earthly possessions at the end of so long and honorable a professional career. He left his family and friends a far richer legacy than any mere worldly wealth: he bequeathed them a name widely and honorably known.

Charles Linnaeus Allen was born at Brattleboro, Vermont, June 21, 1820. His parents were Jonathan Adams Allen and Betsy Cheney. Jonathan Adams Allen was born November 17th, 1787, and was a greatgrand-son of Jonathan Adams, born 1700, for whom he was named, and who had his skull crushed on a rock by Indians in massacre, was left for dead, but lived to be over one hundred years old. He was a relative of President Adams. J. A. Allen graduated at Dartmouth Medical College, practiced for a time in Brattleboro and then removed to Middlebury, where he died in 1848 (Feb. 2d). Dr. C. L. Allen's mother died March 24th, 1826, and he spent his early boyhood on a farm in Jamaica with his mother's relatives. At fifteen years of age he was apprenticed to a printer in Burlington, Vt., but not liking the way he was treated, ran away from there and returned to Middlebury, where he began a college course in 1837, working his own way. He was suspended one year for leaving town to attend the "Tippecanoe" mass meeting in Brandon in 1840, but graduated in 1842. Among his friends in college were Dr. Norman Hudson, the Shakesperean scholar, J. G. Saxe, the poet, and Hon. E. J. Phelps. After graduation he tutored for two years in North Carolina, but returned to Vermont and graduated at Castleton Medical College in 1843. He practiced medicine in Middlebury and in 1854 married Harriet Wood Garfield, by whom he had two daughters, Francis Louisa, who married Edward D. Page, and Harriet Warren, who married John C. Goddard For a time Dr. Allen acted as Professor of Chemistry in Middlebury, but was not appointed such. Mrs. Allen died April 25th, 1858. While practicing his profession in

Middlebury, Dr. Allen also practiced in Rutland and lectured in Castleton Medical College, where he was afterwards President. In the spring of 1862 he lectured in the Medical Department of the University of Vermont on Civil and Military Hygiene. Leaving there, in June 1862, he took the examination to enter the Brigade Corps of Surgeons, U. S. V., passing the best examination up to that time, and with one exception, during the war. He was at once appointed on the examining board with Drs. Clymer and Brinton. Later he was transferred to the Department of the South, and still later made Medical Purveyor of that Department. In August, 1864, he resigned from the army and resumed practice in Rutland. May 30th, 1865, he married Gertrude Margaret Lyon, by whom he had three children, Edwin Lyon, Charles William and Harris Campbell. He had a considerable reputation for his treatment of Bright's Disease and other dropsical diseases, and among the patients cured by him were Gen. Schenck, ex-minister to England and Lieut. Greenleaf, U. S. N. The essential part of his treatment was the exclusive diet of skimmed milk. From shortly after the termination of the war until President Cleveland's administration, he was Pension Examining Surgeon, and was re-appointed under President Harrison, and held the position until his death. He was Secretary of the Vermont State Board of Health from its organization until his death. He was a member of the American Academy of Medicine, American Medical Association and numerous other societies. In his younger years he was far from robust, and has often told the writer that he was at one time considered hopelessly sick with phthisis. He recovered however, and until within a few years was perfectly well. A year or two before his death he discovered that he was passing albuminous urine, but under strict dietary and medicinal treatment, it disappeared. During the spring of 1890 he had experienced considerable dizziness and his eyes had given him much trouble. At the time of the semi-annual meeting of this society in Rutland last year, he was in Boston for the purpose of consulting an occulist. He died suddenly at his home in Rutland on the morning of July 2nd, 1890, of cerebral hemorrhage.

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

OF THE

Vermont State Medical Society.

(As revised October, 1887.)

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE I.-NAME.

This Society shall be called the Vermont State Medical Society.

ARTICLE II.-OFFICERS.

The officers of this Society shall be a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor, Publication Committee of three members, Executive Committee of three members, of which the Secretary shall be one ex officio, Board of Councillors, consisting of one from each county, and a board of License Censors, consisting of three members, all of whom shall be elected annually at the opening of the second day's session, by ballot when demanded by any member present, or in such other manner as the Society shall direct, and shall hold their respective offices until the close of the next annual meeting, and until others are chosen.

ARTICLE III.-MEETING.

There shall be an annual meeting of this Society held on the first Thursday and Friday after the second Wednesday in October, at such place as shall be designated by vote, at the previous annual meeting.

ARTICLE IV.-MEMBERSHIP.

Any physician residing within the State, who is a graduate of a regular recognized Medical School, may become a member of this Society at any regular meeting, upon recommendation of the Board of Councillors and vote of the Society, by signing the Constitution and paying the sum of two dollars to the Treasurer.