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was a good classical scholar, and very methodical and cautious in 

 his practice. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical 

 Society. He was especially fond of horticultural pursuits, de- 

 voting a large share of the limited leisure he could command to 

 the cultivation of fruits and flowers, and was one of the original 

 members of the first Agricultural Society of Hingham, founded 

 in 1813 by the recommendation of the Massachusetts Society for 

 Promoting Agriculture. He died the 26th of June, 1838, in the 

 45th year of his age. His family record appears in Vol. III., p. 

 147, of this History. 



Gustavus L. Simmons, the only son of Samuel and Priscilla 

 (Lincoln) Simmons, was born in Hingham, March 13, 1832. He 

 was graduated at the Harvard Medical School, 1856, in the class 

 with Robert Ware, Conrad Wesselhoeft, and others, and is now 

 an established physician and surgeon of large practice at Sacra- 

 mento, Cal. He married, in 1862, Celia, daughter of Rev. Peter 

 Crocker, of Barnstable, Mass., and has children, Gustavus, Carrie, 

 Celia, and Samuel. 



Henry E. Spalding 8 (Edward Page 7 , Henry 6 , Samuel 5 , Henry 4 , 

 Henry 3 , Andrew 2 , Edward 1 ) was born among the hills of New 

 Hampshire. His boyhood was spent on the farm which his 

 father carried on in connection with his business as dealer 

 in cattle. His early educational advantages were only such as 

 the district afforded, and an additional few weeks of instruc- 

 tion during the winter, when his father would supplement the 

 school term by hiring a teacher for his boys at home. At the 

 age of fourteen he left home for a student's life in Appleton 

 Academy (now McCollom Institute), Mt. Vernon, N. H. Here, 

 with the exception of a short time at Francestown Academy, he 

 pursued a course of study preparatory to entering college. The 

 winter months he spent in teaching, as a means of earning a part 

 of the money required to pay his expenses during the remainder 

 of the year. The breaking out of the Civil War found him just 

 completing his college preparatory course of study, and with it 

 came the question of duty that so deeply stirred the hearts of 

 millions. Should he respond to his country's call for men which, 

 not mentioning all other possible sacrifices and losses, meant for 

 him the unavoidable giving up of the long-coveted collegiate 

 course of study for which he had been working four or five years ? 

 The decision was soon made, and in the fall of 1862, together 

 with about twenty of his classmates and friends, he was enrolled 

 a soldier in the 13th Reg. N. H. Vols. The following spring, 

 however, he was discharged for disability. After his health had 

 become sufficiently restored he commenced the study of medicine, 

 most of the time under the tutorship of J. H. Woodbury, M. D., 

 of Boston. He attended lectures at Harvard Medical School, and 

 afterwards at the New York Homoeopathic Medical College, from 

 which latter institution he graduated in 1866, and at once located 

 in this town. Of the positions of honor to which he has been 



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