The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-05-17

DR.. James Robert Ward.-Distingulsne
as the medical profession has always been for tne
highest learning and talent employed in deeds Oh
unknown and unacknowledged generosity anu
kindness, it has happened to few of its members
to have lived with less of censure to have died.
leaving behind him a more fixed and tenderer re-
greet at his departure, than the late Dr. James
Robert Ward.
He was born in Sassafras Neck, Cecil county,
Nd, in 1907. He was the son of the late joshua
Ward and Mary Veazey, sister to Thomas W :
Veazey, who was Governor of Maryland in 1900
The Wards and VeaZeys are both old Norman
families, and DIR. Ward was named after KoDeit
Ward, the first one of his family who came to THIS
country in 1885, 1t was also an ancestral name
of his Grandmother DeCourseys family. The
late Judge John W. Ward, of Poplar Hill, Balti-
more county, was DIR. Wards eldest brother, and
Mr.. Henry Veazey Ward, of Boston, Mass, who
died in Switzerland in 1873, was also brother.
At an early age DIR. James Robert Ward came
to live in Baltimore city, where he was educated
and studied medicine under the late Dr. Nathaniel
Potter, and received his diploma from the Univer-
sity of Maryland in 1929. Dr. Nathan R. Smith
and DR.. Richard S. Stuart were then among the
professors and continued lifelong friends to DR..
Ward. When DIR. W. graduated he was not In
robust health, and he settled at Clear Spring,
Washington county, Nd, to have the benefit OF
the fresh mountain air of that locality. lie was
we'll known and affectionately remembered as the
family physician and intimate friend OF many OF
the old families of Washington county, Nd, and
Berkeley county, Va.
In 1857 he removed to Govanstown, Baltimore
county, Nd, where he has ever since been faith
full and busy practitioner of medicine. He was
devotedIy attached to his profession, and until
within a week of his death responded to calls upon
his services. He died on the morning OF April
29th 1884, aged rs years. of peritonits, after be-
ing confined to his room but five days. At the
time of his death he president of the State
Board of Health, q member of the Academy OF
Medicine, and president of it in 1880, of the Med
ical and Chirurgical Society of Maryland, and OF
the Monthly Medical Reunion. He married Miss
Eliza Bell McLanahan, of Franklin county, Pa,
and leaves one son, Mr.. j. Harry Ward, and two
daughters, Misses Salie and Annie Ward, all of
whom resided with him.
Since it is not always the man that has shined
before the world with the most conspicuous and
imposing brilliancy, where life has been the most
useful the most worthy of record, it is never in
opportune to recall the memory of one who has
lived in our midst universally respected and
esteemed, and whose death is still mourned as a
public loss the loss not only of physician of
rare skill and aptitude for his noble profession,
but the loss of friend also, whose life has been
a daily activity in works of mercy and whose pro-
fessional ability has been held cheerfully to be
bestowed, at the call of the sick and suffering
poor. For assigning TO Dr. ward an eminent
place in the ranks of his profession, there is full
warrant in the resolutions which have been passed
and published by his professional brethren; but it
was a disinterestedness peculiarly distinguishing
DIR. Ward as a large hearted man in the practice
of his profession which has made his life pre-
eminently useful and worthy of record and his
death to be mourned as loss to the community.
Diligent and attentive to the duties imposed by
the offices which he held as director of the House
of Refuge and as president of the State Board of
Health, and in which his practical knowledge and
interest in sanitary affairs made his services ben
efcial to his fellow-man; one whose warmth of
heart and singeness of purpose in what he did
and said won the confidence of all around; ply
stefan and friend, whom those who had right to
regard him as such knew would never be wanting
in readiness, faithfulness, ability or zeal-what
wonder is it that private sorrow has been blended
with grief widely spread and that in general esti-
nation he is held worthy of the afectionate tribute
inscribed by the poet on the monument of his
friend?
"0f soul sincere,
In action faithful and in honor clear,
Who broke no promise, served no private end,