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Dr. James C. Weston died at his home in Bangor, after a brief 

 illness, on the ITth of May, ISTT, in the 60th year of his age. 

 He was one of the charter members of this Society, and among 

 the first to contribute to its permanent establishment by enrolling 

 himself as a life member. At the first election of officers he was 

 chosen as the Corresponding Secretary, which position he filled 

 most acceptably to the time of his death. 



Dr. Weston was born in Bath, in this State, September 18th, 

 1817. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842, and from the 

 Medical Department of the same institution in 1845. During the 

 latter part of that year and the year 1846, he was Assistant Sur- 

 geon at the Baltimore City Hospital, and subsequently he was 

 City Physician at Portland until 1 849. From the latter date until 

 1853 he was Surgeon at the U. S. Marine Hospital in Portland, 

 and during 1853 he removed to Bangor, where he ever afterwards 

 resided. 



For a number of years Dr. Weston has been retired from the 

 more active practice of his profession, but his services were in 

 frequent requisition as a consulting physician, and his abilities 

 were very highly esteemed by the medical fraternity. He was a 

 prominent member of the Maine Medical Association, and had this 

 year been elected its Historian to prepare a history of the Society 

 for the last quarter of a century. He had also been an Examining 

 Surgeon for the Pension Bureau since 1863. 



Dr. Weston was a man of scholarly tastes and of varied and 

 extensive learning, and took an active part in all movements for 

 the promotion of mental, moral and social culture. In 1870 and 

 1871 he travelled extensively in Europe, visiting all the celebrated 

 art galleries and making careful notes of his observations, which 

 formed the basis of a course of lectures which he recently deliv- 

 ered before the Bangor Art Association, of which he was Vice 

 President. He was no less fond of music than of art, and was one 

 of the founders, and at the time of his death. President of the 

 Bangor Handel Association. His style in writing and speaking 

 was easy, fluent and graceful, — though varied as the themes to 

 which he devoted his attention. In the ornate word-painting of 

 the art critic, the concise terms of scientific demonstration, the 

 faithful narrative of the historian, and the straightforward lan- 

 guage of common sense as applied to practical farming and the 

 affairs of every day life, he was equally at home, and his words 

 were always well chosen and his ideas clearly expressed. He was 



