Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-03-21
DR.. George w. LeCato.

DIR. George w. LeSato'
Ash write the name, memory
brings before me my friend; and the
eve fills with tears, while the hand
moves TREMENDOUSLY on. He Is gone;
but those that knew him best will
not let him die. / will not attempt
so much eulogy, as to give In brief
form some personal points, charac-
teristic OF the man, that show his
power and his worth. The first i'm
pressions made by DR.. LeOato were
not very favorable. There were two
reasons for that: His marked modes
tv and his deliberate way of speak
ing and acting.
| was present on one occasion when
DR.. LeCato met, for the first time, a
prominent professor in one OF the
large medical schools. 1t was neces
sary that DIR. LeCato should do some
writing of professional character.
The professor talked CURLY to him,
and began telling him, as he would
a school boy, what he wanted done.
DR.. LeCato turned silently from him.
and seating himself at desk began
drawing the papers. When ready be
gave the papers to him. l noted the
expression of the professors face as
he read that paper. Then turning to
him he grasped his hand and said;
"Dr. let me congratulate you. That
is the most perfect paper of the kind
that ever saw" Just that little
paper convinced that man that this
quiet, modest man, from the little
village by the sea, was in every res
pect his peer. On account OF his
quiet and unassuming manner only
those near to him could appreciate
his real worth.
The senior DR.. McSherry, who was
for forty or more years the professor
of practice in the Maryland Univer-
sity College of Medicine, once said to
me: ~ have never known a general
practitioner, better equipped, than
DR.. LeCato. He is in every respect a
thoroughly competent physician"
Twas conversing with physician
of considerable prominence in an
other part of this State. He asked:
"Do you know DIR. LeCato." re-
piled: II do" Said he: II wish l
knew him." He was called in consul
tation to see my brother. AS a
brother physician he has written to
me, explaining perfectly my brothers
condition. The letter surpassed any
thing of the kind that l have ever
seen. He is evidently close student
with great brains"
There are many men that it will
not do to view closely or to inspect
minutely. In the distance they seem
to tower above their fellow men.
When near them, you find 80 many
defects, they soon become to you but
men, and only ordinary men at that.
But DR.. LeCato was not that type CT
man. The closer you got to him the
larger he became. His great mind
was not flash light that dazzled and
blinded by its brilliancy one moment
and then left you in midnight gloom
the next. He was great fixed lnmi-
nary, quietly, gently throwing his
light, in silver sheen, on all around.
You scarcely know whence it came.
But oh, its brightness, its lovely in
huence.
One reason why DR.. LeCato grows
on you as you came near him was
that his heart was as big as his head.
could here give some things that
have occurred in my own life in evil
dence of this fact. But they are too
sacred to place upon the page With
q tear and prayer, l commit them
to the archives of heaven. God will
keep the record.
He did a large amount of charity
work, not only in his profession but
in other ways. He was man Of large
sympathy. He expressed this often
in deeds, seldom in words. Then too
he had that love or charity: THAT
suffereth long and is kind" When
they tried to fitch from him the glory
of his public life, uncomplainingly
and almost without an explanation,
be moved quietly on to new duties.
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