Date entombed was December 24, 1914. There are four people entombed in Blood Mausoleum, Valley Cemetery.
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A Special Thanks to Find a Grave Contributor Pat Van Den Berghe (#47310624) for photo & obituary of Dr. French.
Obituary from the NH Medical Society Journal 1915:
Dr. L. Melville French, was among the last of the fine old school physicians who combated sickness and disease in Manchester of another day, died December 22, 1914. As he had lived so he died, peacefully and calmly, at the age of 64 years. He died suddenly at his home of heart trouble. He was born July 26, 1819 in Ashby, Mass, the son of Dr. Leonard French, and brother of Dr. Henry Minot French, a medical practitioner in Concord, NH. His mother was Sarah Melville French. Dr. French was educated at the Manchester high school and later Dartmouth College, where he received a medical degree. Later he went to New York City and attended Bellevue Hospital and studied with Dr. Loomis. He commenced to practice in 1873, occupying the office with his father, and was in active practice for 30 years. Twelve years ago when he labored through three successive attacks of the grip he found it necessary to pay careful attention to his health. Of late he had retired from active practice, attending only cases among personal friends.
Dr. French belonged to the American Medical Association and the New Hampshire Medical Society. He had been President of the First Congregational Society since 1906, and a trustee of the Amoskeag Savings Bank. He was on the medical staff of the Elliot Hospital from the founding, April 4, 1890, then resigning he was placed on the consulting staff. June 1, 1887 he married Miss Emma A Blood; she and an only child, Mrs. Carl S Fuller, survive him.
The onward and upward march of his profession he regarded with impressive loyalty. The marvelous changes from the early 70's to 1914 he accepted with conviction, devotion and commradeship that was fine and rang true, divorced from puritanical prejudice. Progressive surgery and medicine he delighed in and watched with interest and pleasure the strides made in both, welcoming and accepting the researches, discoveries and phenomena in an enthusiastic and up-to-date spirit, satisfied and gratified that the profession, to which he and his family had devoted their lives and been so efficiently helpful in, should constantly grow in healing and power. His was a life of righteousness, a good Christian life, with nothing in it to suggest wordly or the vain . One cannot say he held this or that important public office, but all his friends and acquaintances will agree, he was a good man. To be able to say that of a man is better than all the others. In his sickroom ministrations he was tender, cheery and helpful, leaving comfort, courage and healing in this wake. How valuable a legacy a successful physician of his temperament bequeaths to his patients in inestimable, but it is very large.
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A Special Thanks to Find a Grave Contributor Pat Van Den Berghe (#47310624) for photo & obituary of Dr. French.
Obituary from the NH Medical Society Journal 1915:
Dr. L. Melville French, was among the last of the fine old school physicians who combated sickness and disease in Manchester of another day, died December 22, 1914. As he had lived so he died, peacefully and calmly, at the age of 64 years. He died suddenly at his home of heart trouble. He was born July 26, 1819 in Ashby, Mass, the son of Dr. Leonard French, and brother of Dr. Henry Minot French, a medical practitioner in Concord, NH. His mother was Sarah Melville French. Dr. French was educated at the Manchester high school and later Dartmouth College, where he received a medical degree. Later he went to New York City and attended Bellevue Hospital and studied with Dr. Loomis. He commenced to practice in 1873, occupying the office with his father, and was in active practice for 30 years. Twelve years ago when he labored through three successive attacks of the grip he found it necessary to pay careful attention to his health. Of late he had retired from active practice, attending only cases among personal friends.
Dr. French belonged to the American Medical Association and the New Hampshire Medical Society. He had been President of the First Congregational Society since 1906, and a trustee of the Amoskeag Savings Bank. He was on the medical staff of the Elliot Hospital from the founding, April 4, 1890, then resigning he was placed on the consulting staff. June 1, 1887 he married Miss Emma A Blood; she and an only child, Mrs. Carl S Fuller, survive him.
The onward and upward march of his profession he regarded with impressive loyalty. The marvelous changes from the early 70's to 1914 he accepted with conviction, devotion and commradeship that was fine and rang true, divorced from puritanical prejudice. Progressive surgery and medicine he delighed in and watched with interest and pleasure the strides made in both, welcoming and accepting the researches, discoveries and phenomena in an enthusiastic and up-to-date spirit, satisfied and gratified that the profession, to which he and his family had devoted their lives and been so efficiently helpful in, should constantly grow in healing and power. His was a life of righteousness, a good Christian life, with nothing in it to suggest wordly or the vain . One cannot say he held this or that important public office, but all his friends and acquaintances will agree, he was a good man. To be able to say that of a man is better than all the others. In his sickroom ministrations he was tender, cheery and helpful, leaving comfort, courage and healing in this wake. How valuable a legacy a successful physician of his temperament bequeaths to his patients in inestimable, but it is very large.
Date entombed was December 24, 1914. There are four people entombed in Blood Mausoleum, Valley Cemetery.
*****
A Special Thanks to Find a Grave Contributor Pat Van Den Berghe (#47310624) for photo & obituary of Dr. French.
Obituary from the NH Medical Society Journal 1915:
Dr. L. Melville French, was among the last of the fine old school physicians who combated sickness and disease in Manchester of another day, died December 22, 1914. As he had lived so he died, peacefully and calmly, at the age of 64 years. He died suddenly at his home of heart trouble. He was born July 26, 1819 in Ashby, Mass, the son of Dr. Leonard French, and brother of Dr. Henry Minot French, a medical practitioner in Concord, NH. His mother was Sarah Melville French. Dr. French was educated at the Manchester high school and later Dartmouth College, where he received a medical degree. Later he went to New York City and attended Bellevue Hospital and studied with Dr. Loomis. He commenced to practice in 1873, occupying the office with his father, and was in active practice for 30 years. Twelve years ago when he labored through three successive attacks of the grip he found it necessary to pay careful attention to his health. Of late he had retired from active practice, attending only cases among personal friends.
Dr. French belonged to the American Medical Association and the New Hampshire Medical Society. He had been President of the First Congregational Society since 1906, and a trustee of the Amoskeag Savings Bank. He was on the medical staff of the Elliot Hospital from the founding, April 4, 1890, then resigning he was placed on the consulting staff. June 1, 1887 he married Miss Emma A Blood; she and an only child, Mrs. Carl S Fuller, survive him.
The onward and upward march of his profession he regarded with impressive loyalty. The marvelous changes from the early 70's to 1914 he accepted with conviction, devotion and commradeship that was fine and rang true, divorced from puritanical prejudice. Progressive surgery and medicine he delighed in and watched with interest and pleasure the strides made in both, welcoming and accepting the researches, discoveries and phenomena in an enthusiastic and up-to-date spirit, satisfied and gratified that the profession, to which he and his family had devoted their lives and been so efficiently helpful in, should constantly grow in healing and power. His was a life of righteousness, a good Christian life, with nothing in it to suggest wordly or the vain . One cannot say he held this or that important public office, but all his friends and acquaintances will agree, he was a good man. To be able to say that of a man is better than all the others. In his sickroom ministrations he was tender, cheery and helpful, leaving comfort, courage and healing in this wake. How valuable a legacy a successful physician of his temperament bequeaths to his patients in inestimable, but it is very large.
*****
A Special Thanks to Find a Grave Contributor Pat Van Den Berghe (#47310624) for photo & obituary of Dr. French.
Obituary from the NH Medical Society Journal 1915:
Dr. L. Melville French, was among the last of the fine old school physicians who combated sickness and disease in Manchester of another day, died December 22, 1914. As he had lived so he died, peacefully and calmly, at the age of 64 years. He died suddenly at his home of heart trouble. He was born July 26, 1819 in Ashby, Mass, the son of Dr. Leonard French, and brother of Dr. Henry Minot French, a medical practitioner in Concord, NH. His mother was Sarah Melville French. Dr. French was educated at the Manchester high school and later Dartmouth College, where he received a medical degree. Later he went to New York City and attended Bellevue Hospital and studied with Dr. Loomis. He commenced to practice in 1873, occupying the office with his father, and was in active practice for 30 years. Twelve years ago when he labored through three successive attacks of the grip he found it necessary to pay careful attention to his health. Of late he had retired from active practice, attending only cases among personal friends.
Dr. French belonged to the American Medical Association and the New Hampshire Medical Society. He had been President of the First Congregational Society since 1906, and a trustee of the Amoskeag Savings Bank. He was on the medical staff of the Elliot Hospital from the founding, April 4, 1890, then resigning he was placed on the consulting staff. June 1, 1887 he married Miss Emma A Blood; she and an only child, Mrs. Carl S Fuller, survive him.
The onward and upward march of his profession he regarded with impressive loyalty. The marvelous changes from the early 70's to 1914 he accepted with conviction, devotion and commradeship that was fine and rang true, divorced from puritanical prejudice. Progressive surgery and medicine he delighed in and watched with interest and pleasure the strides made in both, welcoming and accepting the researches, discoveries and phenomena in an enthusiastic and up-to-date spirit, satisfied and gratified that the profession, to which he and his family had devoted their lives and been so efficiently helpful in, should constantly grow in healing and power. His was a life of righteousness, a good Christian life, with nothing in it to suggest wordly or the vain . One cannot say he held this or that important public office, but all his friends and acquaintances will agree, he was a good man. To be able to say that of a man is better than all the others. In his sickroom ministrations he was tender, cheery and helpful, leaving comfort, courage and healing in this wake. How valuable a legacy a successful physician of his temperament bequeaths to his patients in inestimable, but it is very large.
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