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It was there also that he attended school
and was graduated from the grammar
school, after leaving an excellent reputa-
tion for good scholarship. He then attended
Bucknell University Academy,
where he was prepared for college and
immediately thereafter matriculated at
Bucknell University. In these institu-
tions he continued the excellent record
which he had already established, and
was graduated from the latter with the
class of 1902, having taken the degree
of B. S. He stood high in his class, par-
ticularly in scientific subjects, having in-
herited a taste and talent for them from
his father, and received on this account a
scholarship. He had in the meantime de-
cided definitely upon medicine as his pro-
fession in life, and accordingly entered
the Medico-Chirurgical College, of Phil-
adelphia, which is now a department of
the University of Pennsylvania. From
this he was graduated with the class of
1905 and the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
For the practical experience which
is so necessary as a supplement to theo-
retical training, especially in the profes-
sion of medicine, he entered the hospital
associated with his college and there remained
as an interne for the period of a
year, and this he followed up by a year as
physician to the State Hospital for the
Insane at Harrisburg. He also held the
position of pathologist of the institution.
He began his general practice in Fayette
county, his native State, and remained
there for a period of some six years, during
which he was highly successful and
established an enviable reputation. Not
satisfied, however, with the opportunities
and outlook of that position, he went
abroad, where he continued his medical
studies at a number of famous European
clinics, including those at Heidelberg,
Munich, Vienna, Berlin, London and
Edinburgh. In 1914, he returned to this
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country and established himself in the
city of Hartford, Connecticut, since which
time he has met with a high degree of
success. He is at the present time on the
staff of the Hartford Hospital as visiting
obstetrician and gynecologist, on the
staff of the Hartford Dispensary as gynecologist,
and also at the Woman's Aid
Home. He takes an active part in the
general interests and affairs of his pro-
fession, and is a member of the Hartford
Medical Society, the Hartford
County Medical Society, the Connecticut
Medical Society, and the American Medi-
cal Association. He is also a member of
the Phi Kappa Psi, University Club, and
the Hartford Chamber of Commerce.
During his residence in Pennsylvania, he
was for three years a member of the
Pennsylvania National Guard in which
he held the rank of sergeant in Company
A, Twelfth Regiment. While a member
of this organization, he served in the famous
coal strike of 1902 for three months.
Dr. Elliott chose Hartford as the scene of
his labors upon the suggestion of Dr. O.
T. Smith, a well-known surgeon, who
introduced him to the medical profession
here.
Dr. Elliott was united in marriage with
Nellie Dunkle, of Lewisburg, Pennsyl-
vania, a daughter of Frank Dunkle, of
that city. They are the parents of one
child, Marie Louise.
Dr. Elliott is a man in whom the pub-
lic and private virtues are admirably bal-
anced. He is regarded in the profes-
sional world and in all his public relations
as one whose principles are above
reproach and whose strict ideals of honor
and justice are applied to every detail of
his professional conduct. It is not only
in his associations with his patients that
these characteristics are displayed, but
with all those with whom he comes in
contact in his professional career and in I