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isbury, which is now Amesbury, and
there died in 1675. About 1633 ne mar_
ried Elizabeth Perkins, daughter of Quartermaster
John Perkins, of Ipswich, who
came in the ship "Lyon" in the spring
of 1631. She died before April 18, 1670,
when William Sargent took a second
wife. Thomas Sargent, eldest son of
William Sargent, was born June 11, 1643,
in Salisbury, was a farmer, residing on
Bear Hill in Amesbury, and died February
27, 1706. He married, January
2. 1667, Rachel Barnes, born February
3, 1648, daughter of William Barnes, of
Amesbury, died in 1719. His son, John
Sargent, who was the father of Robert
Sargent, and grandfather of Amos Sargent,
who married Sarah Patten, and
was the father of Rhoda Sargent, wife
of Charles Snow. Their daughter, Sarah
Jane Snow, born January 24, 1831, died
March 8, 191 1, became the wife of James
Harvey Alderman, and the mother of
Edna Snow, who became the wife of
Horace Clark.
RUSSEGUE, Henry Elmore, M. D.,
Physician.
"But nothing is more estimable than a
physician who, having studied nature
from his youth, knows the properties of
the human body, the diseases which as-
sail it, the remedies which will benefit it,
exercises it with caution and pays equal
attention to the rich and the poor."
Henry Elmore Russegue, M. D., a
member of the estimable profession
referred to in the quotation from Vol-
taire, was born August 11, 1850, in
Franklin, Massachusetts. He received
his elementary education in the public
schools of that town, and later became a
student at Dean Academy, which was a
preparatory school for Tufts College
located in his native town. At the age
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of seventeen, he gave up his academic
courses at Dean Academy and went to
Boston, Massachusetts, to take a business
position which had been offered him
and which he continued to occupy until
the advent of the "Boston Fire" of November
9, 1872, when it became necessary
for him to seek new employment, as did
many hundreds of other young men.
Thus in the period following the dis-
aster, he was in the employ of one of
the Boston wholesale dry goods houses,
during which period of service he was
daily thrown in contact with a number
of the professors, lecturers and students
of Boston University School of Medicine,
and through his association with
them he became very much interested in
medicine as a profession and occasionally
attended some of the lectures at the Med-
ical College, and on almost all occasions
of his meeting with his college friends
and acquaintances he was importuned to
study medicine and make its practice his
life work. To this suggestion, after
advising with his parents, he finally
yielded and matriculated at Boston Uni-
versity School of Medicine in 1874, tak-
ing the full three years' course. At the
termination of this three years' course,
however, instead of graduating with his
class in 1877, he made application for the
position of "interne" at the Massachusetts
Homoeopathic Hospital, which position
was open only to senior under-graduates,
and after a competitive examination he
received the appointment of resident phy-
sician and surgeon to that institution for
the school year of 1877 and 1878, at the
expiration of which term of service he
was awarded a diploma from the insti-
tution. At the Commencement exercises
of Boston University School of Medicine
in March, 1878, he was graduated as Doctor
of Medicine, receiving his degree
with the graduating class of 1878.