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Dr. Russeguc then took up his residence
in South Framingham, Massachu-
setts, where he practiced his profession
most successfully for six years. He
began to notice that the strain and expos-
ure incident to a widely distributed coun-
try practice was making inroads upon his
health, and he decided to remove from
that center and get into a more concen-
trated city practice. In keeping with this
decision he removed to Hartford, Con-
necticut, in 1884. After locating in that
city, Dr. Russegue soon drew to himself
a large clientele and was most success-
ful in his profession, becoming one of
Hartford's prominent physicians in a
remarkably short time, ingratiating him-
self not only into the good will and effec-
tion of his patients, but also into the
kindly and fraternal feelings of his
brother physicians of all schools of med-
ical practice. With the exception of
one comparatively short intermission
(when away from the city for a time)
Dr. Russegue continued in the practice
of his profession in Hartford and its
suburban towns until 1910, when the city
of Hartford requisitioned his residential
property, in which was located his ofHce
and his place of business, for its own
uses, and since his removal from that
location he has not been actively engaged
in practice, although he still continues to
reside in Hartford.
Dr. Russegue has been elected to the
medical examinership of seven different
insurance organizations, in one of which
he served in that capacity for upwards
of twenty years. Dr. Russegue is a life
member and a Senior of the American
Institute of Homoeopathy, and he is also
a life member of the Massachusetts
Homoeopathic Medical Society in his
native State.
In fraternal organizations Dr. Russegue
is a member of St. John's Lodge, No.
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4, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons
of Pythagoras Chapter, Xo. 17, Royal
Arch Masons ; of Wolcott Council, Xo.
1, Royal and Select Masters; of Washington
Commandery, No. 1, Knights
Templar ; of Charter Oak Lodge of Per-
fection, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite
of Hartford Council, Princes of Jerusalem
; of Cyrus Goodell Chapter of Rose
Croix; of the Connecticut Consistory,
Supreme Princes of the Royal Secret, and
the Sphinx Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
He is also a member of Charter Oak
Lodge, No. 2, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and of G. Fred Barnes Encampment,
No. 8, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows.
Very soon after graduation. Dr. Russegue
married Caroline Storer Wheel-
wright, who passed to the higher life
many years ago. She was the youngest
daughter of the Hon. Joseph S. Wheelwright,
of Bangor, Maine. Of this mar-
riage there were born two daughters,
viz. : Susan Thaxter and Ellen Wheelwright,
the last and youngest of whom,
Mrs. Ellen Wheelwright (nee Russegue)
Bird, is now living, and to her have been
born four children, viz. : Storer Wheelwright,
Eleanor Thaxter, Carolyn Wheelwright
and Virginia Russegue Bird. The
grandson, Storer Wheelwright Bird, has
passed to the higher life, but the three
granddaughters are all living.
In 1896 Dr. Russegue married (sec-
ond) Mrs. Helen Lane Palmer, widow of
Joshua S. Palmer, a prominent lawyer
and postmaster of Portland, Maine. A
woman endowed with great intellectual
ability and a brilliant mind. A woman of
much travel and wide experience. A
woman who for over four years gave her
services to her country during the War
of the Rebellion, who was at the battle
of Bull Run and continued at the front
for the duration of the war, serving as
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