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called in his profession are the presidency of the Boston Homoeo- 

 pathic Medical Society, also of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic 

 Medical Society, and lecturer at Boston University School of 

 Medicine. 



Samuel Hopkins Spalding was born at Wilton, N. H., Aug. 31, 

 1856. He is the son of John H. and Mary L. (Hopkins) Spalding. 

 After completing his early education in the public schools of his 

 native town, he entered Phillips Andover Academy, in 1870, and 

 was graduated there in 1873, ranking third in his class. During 

 the next two years he was employed in the store of Macullar, 

 Williams, & Parker, Boston. He then decided to study med- 

 icine, and in the autumn of 187b' he joined the middle class of 

 Phillips Exeter Academy. In June, 1879, he became a student 

 at Harvard College, and was graduated there in 1881. In the 

 following autumn he entered the Boston University School of 

 Medicine, from which he was graduated in 1884, serving during 

 the last two years as House Surgeon in the Massachusetts 

 Homoeopathic Hospital. He was a member of the Hahnemann 

 Society. After graduating from the School of Medicine he was 

 in the practice of his profession for three years in Arredonda, 

 Florida. Jan. 6, 1888, he came to Hingham, and has since been 

 in practice here as a physician and surgeon ; first as assistant, 

 and later as partner with Dr. Henry E. Spalding, under the firm 

 name of Drs. Spalding and Spalding. He is a member of the 

 American Institute of Homoeopathy, and of the Massachusetts 

 Humceopatliic Medical Society. He married, Dec. 17, 1891, Ella 

 Elizabeth Drew, of Boston. 



John Winthrop Spooner commenced the practice of medicine 

 in Hingham in 1871. He is a son of John P. and Abby Elizabeth 

 (Tuckerman) Spooner, and was born at Dorchester, Mass., Sept. 

 20, 1845; was educated in the public schools of Dorchester; 

 fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. ; was gradu- 

 ated at Harvard University in 1867, and received his degree of 

 M. D. in 1871, being elected a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medi- 

 cal Society in the same year. He was House Physician at the 

 Boston City Hospital for one year. He has served three years as 

 censor of the Plymouth District Medical Society ; was for several 

 years chairman of the board of censors of the Norfolk South So- 

 ciety, and later one of its councillors. He holds positions of trust 

 and responsibility in several local institutions. In April, 1886, he 

 was appointed by the Governor a Medical Examiner for Plymouth 

 County. Resides on Main St., near the Old Meeting-house. See, 

 also, genealogical record in Vol. III., p. 163, of this History. 



Ezra Stephenson was born in Hingham, Oct. 13, 1805. He 

 was a son of James and Desire (Sprague) Stephenson. His 

 earlier education was acquired at the public schools, and in the 

 Derby Academy. He subsequently worked for a short time at 

 the trade of carpenter, but soon abandoned the occupation to 

 enter the medical school of Harvard University, from which in- 

 stitution he, in 1832, received the degree of M. D., and in 1836 



