CHARLES PICKERING PUTNAM. 919 



'cm "himself, and carry it, — a patient and successful physician to the 

 community a,s well as to the child. 



Dr. Putnam's most distinctive characteristic was the power of 

 enlistment. In each of the many services he undertook it seemed to 

 ttose he served and to his fellow workers as if that must be the only 

 thing he had to do. There are in every enterprise the helpful men, 

 the wise, the brilliant men, the steady workers. And then there are 

 the essential men, those without whom the thing will not be done. 

 In an extraordinary number of instances Dr. Putnam was among 

 these last. Whatever happened, however badly things might go, 

 whoever else became lukewarm or discouraged, his associates knew 

 that he, at least, would see the thing through, that he had enlisted for 

 the war, intended doing as much, be it more or less, as might be 

 necessary. 



Dr. Putnam was a remarkably resourceful man and would recon- 

 struct his patient's world, physically as well as morally, by his calm 

 assumption that anything needed could be done, and in hundreds of 

 cases by doing the most impossible parts himself. Slower minds 

 thought him slow at laying the first brick, whereas he had completed 

 the whole structure in imagination, and was hesitating what kind of 

 chimney-pot to use. 



And the best was the power behind it all in the great kind heart, 

 that would see and know only the best, and, with a quality like the 

 sun, could see only light wherever it was turned." 



Dr. Putnam's wife, Lucy Washburn, and three children, Charles 

 Washburn, Tracy Jackson, and Martha, survive him. 



J. J. Putnam. 



