Litchfield enquirer., 1846-05-28
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From the ~ Y Journal Of Medicine, .Mav
1s46-Edited by Dr.. C. A. LEE.]
OBITUARY NOTICE,
LUTHER TICKNOR, MD.

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LUTHER TICKNOR. M. D.,
PRESIDENT or THE CONNECTICUT STATE
MEDICAL SOCIETY.
OB1rUARY.-Died at Salisbury. Con.
necticut, April 10th, 1916. LUTHER TICK
NOR, M. D., President of the Connecticut
State Medical Society, in the 56th year of
his age.
In this announcement some of our rea-
ders will recognize the name of one who
was er1deared to them by many excellent
and noble qualities, and filled, for nearly
thirty years, wide space in the medical
profession of the State of Connecticut.
DR.. Ticknor was born in Jerico, in the
State of Vermont, March 9th. 1890. At
the age of fifteen, he lost his father, who
was accidentally killed by the falling of
a tree. The oldest brother, DR.. B. Tick,
nor, now Of the U. s. Navy, having left
home, the whole charge of family of
& persons, including six younger broth
ers and sister, devolyed on the subject of
our notice; and although in INDECENT
circumstances, he kept them together and
furnished them, by his own personal ex-
space Of three years. At the end of that
time the family were broken up; two Of
his brothers and sister, he placed at
school. and he himself engaged in labor
ing on farm for two years longer. He
then commenced the study Ct medicine
with the late James r. Dodge of Sails
bury. Connecticut. and supported him
self and the three other members of the
family above mentioned, by teaching
school part of the year. One Of these
brothers was the late Caleb Ticknor, M.
D., of New York, whose early loss to sci.
ence cannot be sufficiently deplored.
DR.. Ticknor was endowed by nature
with uncommon intellectual vigor; grea.
energy Of character indomitable perse-
verence and a courage that quailed
at no obstacles however great, or appa-
rently insurmountable. He loved his
kind with pure and disinterested affec.
ton; bis benevolence of heart knew no
bounds, and his life corresponded tothe
generous impulses of his nature !; he wore
himself out in serving his fellow men,
and doing good. 1t is not too much
to say. thai few, if any physicians,
have lived in our country. who maintain
ed in the circle in which they moved,
more respect and confidence from their
professional brethren, or a higher char
ac,er with the public as physician and
man.
Dr. Ticknor was emphatically self
made man. He had raised himself, by
his sole unaided exeItions, from an hum.
bile sphere of life, and he delighted in
looking back and recounting the difficult
tres he had conquered. With his own
hand, he had carved out his path to dis
tinction and eminence, and he felt an
honest pride in contemplating the rug
gedness of the road along which he had
travelled. and in lending helping hand
to those entering upon the same path.
No physician in the Sta'e of Connecticut,
it is beIe"ed. has performed a greater
amount of gratuious medical services,
or aided more INDECENT young men in OBJ
tanning a medical education. than Dr..
Ticknor; and in no instance scarcely,
has it been known, shat student, who
enjoyed the benefits of his instruction,
faile.I to make highly successful and
useful practitioner.
I, is difficult to say whether the excel
lent qualities of his head or heart pre-
dominated. There certainly were combi-
ned in him, extraordinary intellectu-
al and moral eniowments with great
physical energies, constitution which
braved all manner of hardships and ex-
posture, incident to country practice. for
nearly the third of century. If ever
an individual lived, who was totally re-
CARELESS of his own health and comfort
and wholly absorbed in ministeriDg to the
necessities of others, that person was
Luther Ticknor. His daily life was
perpetual and standing refutation of the
maxim, that there is no desinterested
bpnevolence in the world. The question
whether a patient YVES able to make
any remuneration for his services. never
even entered. into his calculatioDs-in-
deed, it is believed that he would sooner
have attended the poor than the rich;
his sympathies, feelings, instincts. all
seemed to draw him that way and If
his Indignation ever was aroused. it was
when he heard of physicians who con.
verted their art into money making
trade, and specula,ed upon the miseries
and sufferings of their fellow men. Hence
it was no part OF DR.. Ticknor's am
bition to accumulate wealth IT fees were
OuefcO ntGns ne LOOK tuCHI u uS uCCuCo
them, at The time; if not he would as
generally decline, or postpone accepting
anything till some future occasion.
There was indeed a nobleness. gener-
osity. a greatness in his nature which
commanded admiration; theywere stamp
ed in indelible characters on his digniied
manly form and features and endeared
him to the entire community, as few men
have the fortune to be endeared to their
most intimate friends. He was truly one
of natures noblemen-a true-hearted.
ingenious, trustworthy man. of classical
and heroic stamp. who conferred not
only honor and dignity upon bis profes.
sion, but on human nature itself. But. If
he loved and honored his profession, as
one of the most dignified and useful call
ings, his profession ALSO loved him and
j, is believed that there was no Office. of
honor or dignity. within their gift. v HIGH
they did not again and again urge him to
accept. For many years he oficiated
most acceptably as one of the examiners
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