Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-11-08
DEATH oF DIR. w. II. UORR

Or VIM Henry Horr. formerly OF Lew
i,,on. died at his residence In salmon FALL,
MI. on Friday night. Oct. 81. HI health
began to fail four years ago, while In the
midst OF 4 thriving practice. For tw"
YEAR, H. attended Ia pirt u ~ business.
uulll his severe sickness compelled him 10
abandouC entirely Consumption at last
finished It's work. DR.. Horr was born In
Lancaster, Coos county, y. H., July Srd'
ls45. He moved with his parents soon ar
ter TO Waterford. Maine. He received hi
preparatory education In the Plnmmer
neighborhood, and at the Academy In No.
Bridg,on. He commenced the study oil
medicine with his brother, DR.. o. A. Horr
OF Lewiston, In 1867. In 1869 he was APP
pointed Assistant Superintendent OF III"
Maine State Reform School At Cape Eliza
beth. and remained there two years. H.
received the Degree OF NJ. ID. from Bow
don College In June, 1872. During th'
years OF 1868 10 ISL he devoted consider
able OF his time TO teaching school and va
cal music. DR.. Horr commenced the prac-
,ice OF medicine al Lewiston, but remsin'd
there only six months. In November, 1872,
he moved 10 Salmon Falls. The life OF DR..
Horr was a quiet one, even In the circle "f
his best known friends. BY steady ard
faithful application In his profession. his
practice had increased so that he was un-
able 10 meet the many calls made upon
him. As a skillful surgeon he was wei
known, and will be greatly missed. HIS
kindness and sympathy In the sick room
will not soon be forgotten. His heart WIS
touched keenly when he saw that no skill
OF his could save those he had been sum
moned TO relieve, and his tears could not
keep back when turning from the bedside
he made room for mother or friend TO care
for the dead. He worked In quiet way
in the temperance movement until the
open traffic In liquor was driven into
corner, and law had 10 be violated secretly.
While Rev. Ezra Haskell led the work in
Dover, DR.. Horr was the leader In Salmon
Falls. There seems 70 be something wrong
In the removal Of a young man so worthy
as q physician, a friend and citizen, a.
men look upon bis. death; but the Doctor.
with faith In the unseen, In his most try
ing hour could say, at is better So" "He
doeth all things we'll" He longed to get
better; his Christian faith served him so
well on his sick bed that he desired very
much TO live to serve his Lord before men
and in his profession, but 1t was not TO be.
A few days before his death he said to the
writer, II am trying TO be calm; am
lust waiting; and two days before his
death, though suffering agony indescriba-
BILE and unable to speak above whisper.
he said, ~ am trying to be patient, am
Just waiting for the Lord to take me ="
His mind was clear to the last, and with
all his faculties fully awake, he passed from
his home on earth TO that "house not made
with hands, eternal in the heavens" His
was q short life, but 1t was well lived. He
leaves wife to mourn his loss. Patiently
and heroically she has watched by that
sick-bed by night and day until friends
marveled at her powers OF endurance. In
this dark hour, there are many to symps-
thize with her. DIR. Horr was buried ut
Rollinsford on Monday. II. G. W.
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