Memorials of the Class of 1833 of Harvard College (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...failing health compelled him to relinquish active practice, in a very extensive circle of patients, he exhibited its curative power and beneficent results, and up to his latest moments maintained an unswerving belief in its truth, and sought to add to its practical importance, therefore, --"Resolved, That we cordially testify our respect for one so noble and so good, who sacrificed so much for the welfare of others, and who accomplished so much for his profession and for humanity. "Resolved, That we invite the physicians of Massachusetts to unite with us in the last sad obsequies -to our departed brother." ANDREW FOSTER. ANDREW FOSTER, eldest son of Andrew and Mary (Conant) Foster, was born January 5, 1815. His father (H. C. 1800) was established as a physician successively in Dedham, Roxbury, and Cambridge, Mass. His parents were married in Cambridge, November 19, 1813, and his father died in that town in 1831. Foster took no rank in his class, but went through the prescribed course, and graduated in 1833. Very little is known of his life for the first twenty-five years after leaving college. There seems to have been a peculiar mortality among his early friends and companions; even his three brothers, all younger than himself, having died before him. It is thought that he pursued the study of the law for a while. He is believed, again, to have been attached to the editorial staff of some Boston newspaper. About ten years after graduating, at the death of the widow of his only maternal grand-uncle, Mr. Andrew Craigie, who owned and occupied the fine old mansion in Cambridge so well known subsequently as the home of Longfellow, he inherited with his three brothers that house, and the extensive fields adjoining, now covered with scores of p...