IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



setts General Hospital. He was the son of Dr. 

 George Cheyne Shattuck, and he died in 1893 

 in his eightieth year. His two sons, Frederick C. 

 and George B., and his grandson, George C., are 

 all well-known physicians in Boston to-day. 

 Another was WiUiam Ingalls, of Boston, who 

 afterwards became a physician. He was a 

 charming man and one who carried the bloom 

 and optimism of youth until his death within a 

 month of his ninety-first birthday in 1903. A 

 motto he once sent me with a pair of sugar tongs 

 is characteristic of the man: "Something to pick 

 up sweets with as onward you journey along." 

 Joseph A. Coolidge, of Maine, the third of this 

 band, died in California in 1901 at the age of 

 eighty-six. The fourth was Thomas Lincoln, of 

 Dennysville, Maine, the son of an old friend of 

 Audubon and one whose name ornithologists all 

 remember, as it was immortalized by Audubon 

 in the name of a new species of sparrow discov- 

 ered in Labrador. He died at the age of seventy- 

 one on his birthday, March 27, in 1883. There 

 remains Audubon's son, John Woodhouse Audu- 

 bon, the artist, who, of this band of young men, 

 was the only one to fail to reach advanced age, 

 for he died in his fortieth year, in 1862. He was 



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