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more clearly expressed on any face, — the dignity of a deep-seated 

 self-respect. His courtesy had an old-world elegance in it. His 

 kindnes.-J, that could net be surpassed, was all the more valuable as 

 being accompanied by an outward manner suggestive of self-repres- 

 sion and wholly antithetic to emotional display. In fact he was so 

 noble and grand and good a man that pity seems a feeling incon- 

 gruous with any circumstance connected with him, incongruous even 

 with his death. I feel a sincere sorrow ; but it is a sorrow inter- 

 mingled and softened by a supreme admiration. He will abide in 

 my memory as the heau ideal of the gentleman in the lighter respects 

 of manner and appearance and in the weighter respects of feeling and 

 character." 



DR. CHARLES G. PUTNAM. 



Dr. Charles G. Putnam was born in Salem on the 7th of Novem- 

 ber, 180.5. His father was the Honorable Samuel Putnam, Judge of 

 the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, his mother a niece of Timothy 

 Pickering, the Secretary of State during "\Yashington's and Adams's 

 administration. He was fitted for colleije under the direction of Mr. 

 John Brazer Davis, and graduated at Harvard in 1824. He studied 

 medicine with the late Dr. A. L. Peirson of Salem, and took his medi- 

 cal degree in 1827. During six years of residence in Salem he was 

 Physician of the Dispensary, Secretary of the School Committee, 

 Physician to the Almshouse, Cabinet Keeper of the Essex Historical 

 Society, and Physician to the Board of Health. 



In 1833 he removed to Boston, and in 1835 married the eldest 

 daughter of the late Dr. James Jackson, with whom he entered into 

 professional partnership, which continued until the death of Dr. 

 Jackson. 



He remained in practice in Boston during the rest of his life, con- 

 stantly and quietly busy, with few interruptions, the most important of 

 which was a visit to Europe of only four months in 1851. His unas- 

 suming excellence as a practitioner and as a man was recognized in the 

 various honors which sought him in his little conspicuous path of daily 

 duties. He was made Physician to the Lying-in Hospital President 

 of the Suffolk District Society, President of the Boston Obstetrical 

 Society, Consulting Physician of the Carney Hospital and of St. 

 Joseph's Hospital, and in 1868 President of the Massachusetts Medical 

 Society. 



In 1857 he was chosen a member of this Academy. His special 

 pursuits hardly furnished materials for papers to go upon its record, 



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