The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-19
DIR. L. R. HURLBUTT.

One of Stamford's Best Citizens Ends
 a Long and Honorable Life-A Yale
 Salutatorian.
 After a siege of serious illness cover ing several months from the first visi- ble breaking down of his health and vitality Dr. l.. R. Hurlbutt passed away February 14th. The Stamford Advocate says of him: He represent ed for years, so long that only the old CT inhabitants can remember their be- ginning, all that is most reputable and useful in the profession of medicine, most distinguished and respectable in social life and most admirable in citi- zenship. His attainments as a scholar were extraordinary even for college graduate and a member of learned profession, and they covered varied and wide fields of knowledge-even of technical sort-apart from the lines to which his practice as medical man specially devoted him.
 In his professional practice he was undoubtedly less conspicuous and ac- lively employed in recent years than formerly. Like so many who have had an experience in practice for some for ty years or more, he was but little dis posed, in his advanced years to deal in an progressively competitive way with the new times, new conditions and new men of a later period. He represented rather the older methods and traditions of profession which however it's usefulness may have been advanced-especially in surgery--by recent discoveries and inventions, nev- CT filled a more honorable place in the economy of domestic and social life than in the period covered by Dr. Hurlbutt's most active years of prac- tice. Nor can it ever hope to assume more engaging or admirable form than when illustrated in the person of man like him when he was the lead ing physician i'll a small community, the repository of the condolences tue arbiter on all questions concerning the health of the household, and the valued friend and acquaintance, as well as tn family doctor--this is the sort Of posi- ton Dr. Hurlbutt filled here for many years, and upon this as well as upon his long, intelligent and helpful ser vices in connection with public schools, may be predicated and accounted for that peculiar sense of loss and sorrow which the announcement of his death brings to the community of his fellow citizens.
 Dr. Hurlbutt was born in Wilton, i Conn, August 13, 1820 His parents were John Belden Hurlbutt and Eliza beth Ogden. He passed his boyhood in | Wilton, preparing for Yale at Profes- sor Olmstead's academy, after which he taught for two years at district school in the vicinity of his home. He i entered Yale in 1889, at the age of nine :. teen, and graduated with the class of 43, of which he was salutatoriaa. lie i was engaged in teaching for several years thereafter in Colchester and Hartford This, however, was Erepar- atory to a return to Yale, to take up i the medical course, which he did with much zeal, earning his degree in 1850. He was then assigned to the New York hospital where he. pursued the usual practice course.
 In 1852 he located in Stamford as a practising physician and remained q resident here until the time of his death.
 On April il, 1854, he married Miss
 Mathilde Louise Moen, daughter of A. R. Moen of this place. -Four daughters and three sons were born to them. All are residents of Stamford, and are Au- gust Moen, Cornelia Anne, Elizabeth Ogden, Lewis Raymond, Sophie Anne,
 John Henry and Sarah Tappan Hurl-
 butt.
 Dr. Hurlbutt was a member of the
 Stamford Medical society and for two
 terms it's president. He was also fo1 many years a member of the school
 board.