Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-06-30

4 tised in his native town. He was actively
! interested IN the organization OF this soci-
ETY., was one Of its founders. ana its first
! president. He was for many years
member OF the Vermont State Medical So
eiety He never sought after political
honors and he accepted them rather as a
testimonial from his people than because
OF any interests he wished to promote.
But the years that crowned him with
their SHOWS brought the offerings OF ven
Grafton and the laurels of a pure renown.
| In 1863 and 1864 he represented his town
IN the General Assembly, and he lived TO
see his son, the present DIR. VIM. ID. Hunt
ington, enjoy the same honor and become
surgeon-generalo Of the state and at the
same time president OF the Vermont Med
zeal society. He felt fathers iustifiable
pride and he properly enough did not at
tempt TO conceal his qualification at the
sons promotion. He always took a lively
interest IN all that pertained to the indus
trial life and progress of his town. Elec-
trio lighting and the building OF the rail-
way to Rochester were enterprises both
due IN large measure to his influence and
exertion.
But the places that knew him will know
him no more, save in blessed memory He
passed to his great reward ON Thursday.
the 18th day of November, 1903, at the ripe
old age OF eighty-four years and one
month. He died as he had lived-calmly, |
peacefully, serenely. No acute malady |
wrenehed his frame. He had ripened like |
the autumn leaves, and when the time |
came he Heated on a gentle zephyr |
from the seen TO the unseen, from being |
into memory. Thoughtlessly we some- |
times use the expression, ''the good die |
young. But now and then a good old |
man IS called hence and we are reminded |
IA NO. -.
sometimes said that death is the great en-
envy OF the human race. But under GER
tam conditions and environments il is not /
so. TO be sure, when the young ambf- |
tlous and hopeful, are stricken down we
stand shocked as il before some unfinished
painting or statue when the pencil or the
ehisel has dropped from the nerveless
hand OF some great artist. But when life's
work is done, and well done, and we are
simply awaiting the inevitable end, death
comes sometimes as friend. Old age is
not always to be desired. To live, merely
to exist, long, neutral, purposeless years Is
nothing. The human vegeta BILE, withered
at the top and dead at the core, is but an
object OF pity and regret. The great poet
After my lame lacks oh. to be the snuf
oi younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses
All but new things disdain."
we can all perhaps appreciate and un-
derstand these lines of Shakespeare. He
meant, / suppose, that one might not wish
10 live after appetite and passion were
dead, when life had become an everyday
hand-to- hand conflict with disease and
pain, and when even brief continuance
would mean the inevitable sinking into
that state of senility and second childhood
when one becomes an object of pity, or
sven regret.
Pint he GRAND ala No., .,-hnso ,,.S,,,...
we keep today never became ''the snuff
Of younger spirits, nor was disdained by
heir comprehensive senses.n On the con-
rary, he retained till near the end the full
7igor of a masterful intellect and all the
Sindly impulses Of a warm and generous
heart. 1t was well and truly said of him
liter bis death that 80 long as he prac-
Used, and he knew when to stop, he was
IN up date physician, though never a
ash eXperimentalist." He was conserva-
i've by nature and his study and long ex-
)erience made him perhaps more so. He
vas an eminently wise, safe, kind counsel
n. To me it always seemed that "This
yenius,n as Lamartine said of Mirabeau
was the infallibility of good sense
count il a goodfortune TO have known
Dr.. Huntington as / did and to have been
associated with him as a neighboring
practitioner more or less intimately for
Yearly thirty years. During all of that
ong acq ualntance never knew an umktnu {
TO be made by him to his asso-
,iates or OF them, or by them Of him. On
he contrary, he was always courteous in
ais intercourse and deferential to the /
opinions and suggestions Of others.
He died, as he had lived, thinking evil OF
zone and by none reviled or held in dis
isteem. He was an example of the perfect !
yentleman-a kindly heart, helping
land, fount of generous and noble SYM
lathN. The peace that he knew in this
ife was, we trust, but a hRrbinger and a J
oretaste OF that higher and diviner peace
hat waited for him on the other shore. /
Mr.. President, / move the adoption OF
he following resolutions:
RESOLVED, That in the long and hon [
IRA bile career of our former colleague, DR.. /
William Millet Huntington. we recognize
he influence of a rare and noble life, an /.
Example worthy of imitation.
RESOLVED, That IN bis death the com
nunity which his life had blessed lost ar
lonored and noble citizen and man. this
.ociety q respected, beloved and useful
member, and the medical profession
worthy son OF Esculapius.
RESOLVED, That, as a fitting, though
light. token Of our esteem for him. this
and these resolutions be spread