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Here lies buried ye Body of 



Doct. John Dixon 



Deceased Feb. y e 14, 1 717. 



In y e 36 th year 



of his age. 



Charles Alonzo Dorr, who succeeded Dr. Harlow as a physi- 

 cian at the south part of the town, is a son of Samuel A. and Mary 

 M. (Wedge wood) Dorr, and was born at Sandwich, N. H., Feb. 12, 

 1851. He entered Dummer Academy, at Newbury, Mass., in 1868 ; 

 Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Me., in 1871; attended the Maine 

 Medical School three years; received his degree of M. D. from 

 Dartmouth Medical College in 1877, and the same year commenced 

 the practice of medicine at Richmond, Me. In 1880 he removed 

 to Hingham, and in 1885 became a member of the Massachusetts 

 Medical Society. His present residence is on Main Street near 

 the meeting-house at South Hingham. 



Robert Thaxter Edes, a graduate of Harvard University, 1858, 

 M. D. 1861, and more recently a Professor in the Harvard Medi- 

 cal School, is a son of Rev. Richard S. and Mary (Cushing) Edes. 

 He came to Hingham soon after the decease of Dr. Fiske in 1866, 

 and located as a physician, remaining for about two years, when 

 he removed to Boston. While a resident of Hingham he married 

 at Boston, April 30, 1867, Elizabeth T., daughter of Calvin W. 

 Clark. They resided in Hingham on Main, near Water Street, in 

 the house built and occupied by his great-grandfather, Dr. Thomas 

 Thaxter. See Genealogical Record, Vol. II. p. 209. 



Robert Treat Paine Fiske was born at .Worcester, Mass., 

 Jan. 1, 1800. He was graduated at Harvard College in the class of 

 1818. After the usual term of medical study, and a brief practice 

 of his profession elsewhere, he, in 1822, came to Hingham and lo- 

 cated as a physician and surgeon. Here he soon commanded a 

 large and lucrative patronage, which he continued to hold up to 

 the time of his decease. During this forty- four years of active 

 professional service in Hingham his duties were often arduous and 

 exacting. He was frequently called upon to attend the sick in the 

 adjoining villages as well as at home, and his oft-repeated visits to 

 Hull, over Long Beach, especially in the winter season, or during 

 severe storms, were, in many instances, far from what is termed 

 poetical. Throughout the entire period of his practice here, the 

 length of which has been exceeded in but one or two instances, he 

 held the respect and confidence of the community. Enterprising, 

 influential, and public-spirited in every movement relating to local 

 improvements, he devoted what leisure hours he could command to 

 rural pursuits. He was one of the early proprietors of the Hing- 

 ham Cemetery Corporation, and for many years its acting Super- 

 intendent ; and it was largely through his excellent judgment and 

 good taste that improvements were commenced upon this now 

 beautiful and historic burial-place. He also was a director of the 

 Hingham Bank, and held other positions of trust and responsibil- 

 ity. Dr. Fiske joined the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1839. 



