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and became one of the foremost citizens
of New Hampshire. A brother, George,
had considerable literary ability, and an-
other brother, Edward, was Governor of
Maine. His son, William Kent, who like
his father had the title "Colonel," died at
the home of Mrs. Hallock, his daughter,
in Cromwell, Connecticut, August 12,
1886, at the age of ninety-three years. He
was several years representative in the
New Hampshire Legislature, served thir-
teen years in the Boston Custom House,
and was in command of the New Hampshire
Militia, which escorted Marquis
Lafayette on his visit to Concord and
through the State in 1824. His father's
house was the Marquis' headquarters
during his stay in Concord. Colonel Wil-
liam Kent married Catherine Hutchins,
who was the mother of Mary Kirkwood
Kent, who died in Cromwell, December
31, 1907. She married, in 1850, Dr. Joel
Shew, of New York City and Oyster Bay,
who died in 1855. Dr. Shew established
at Oyster Bay the first "Water Cure'* in
America, and his brother, A. Marvin
Shew, was the first superintendent of the
Connecticut Hospital for the Insa*ne at
Middletown. They had two children,
William Kent Shew, now deceased, and
Bessie Beecher, wife of William Bohler
Walker, a retired Episcopal clergyman.
In 1858 Mrs. Shew became the wife of
Dr. Winthrop B. Hallock, their children
being Frank K. Hallock, and Susan
Clarke, wife of William Powell Couch.
Frank Kirkwood Hallock, A. M., M.
D., medical director of Cromwell Hall,
the Health School for Invalids, at Cromwell,
Middlesex county, Connecticut, one
of New England's highly regarded nerve
specialists and one of the leading physi-
cians in his State, was born at Oyster
Bay, Long Island, August 18, i860, son
of Winthrop Bailey and Mary Kirkwood
(Kent) Hallock. He prepared for col-
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lege at the Middletown High School, as
his father was then assistant physician at
the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane.
He was graduated from High School in
1877, the year in which his father founded
Cromwell Hall. He then entered Wesleyan
University in Middletown, where
he received his A. B. degree in 1882 and
his A. M. degree in 1885. During the
same period, from 1882 to 1885, he took
the medical course at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in New York, where
he received his degree in 1885. The next
four years Dr. Hallock spent in still more
advanced professional study, consisting
of two years of hospital service as interne
of the New York Hospital, and two years
of study abroad under the leading spe-
cialists of Europe. Thus he spent eleven
years in study and preliminary experi-
ence before actually settling down to the
practice of his profession.
In 1889, on his return from Europe, Dr.
Hallock became his father's assistant,
and upon the latter's death, in 1898, succeeded
him as medical director and head
of Cromwell Hall. In 1896 he persuaded
his father to change the policy of the
institution by eliminating the insane and
thus restricting the admission of patients
to nervous and general invalids. The
new plan proved most satisfactory, and
ever since Cromwell Hall has continued
one of the very few institutions in New
England not receiving insane cases. This
radical change was the first step in the
development of a unique institution, prob-
ably the first of its kind in this country.
In addition to the hygienic treatment
afforded by the ordinary sanatorium, a
system of outdoor living was developed
and great attention was paid to the psy-
chological factors, thus giving virtually
an education along both mental and phy-
sicial lines. It is truly a "Health School."
Dr. Frank K. Hallock was one of the