Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-07-05
DECEASED PHYSICIANS
OF WAYNE COUNTY
Paper Read Before the Wayne County Medical Association
By the President, DR.. j. D. Roberts,
of Mount Olive.

an organization, should pause Tor q
while in our labors as a society to pay
tributes of respect to our departed dead
and do homage to the worthy qualities
exemplifed and the influence eXerted
upon the public and profession by them
while living. To me has been assigned
the mission of collecting and placing
before the Association some memorial
of each of our dead, that we way de-
monstrate our regard for their virtues,
and profit by contemplating them. This
have accepted as a duty placed upon
me by the Association; and although it
has been something of a task, it has
not been altogether an unwilling one,
the only hesitancy being from the
knowledge that others of our members
were, from intimate acquaintance and
association with our friends while liv-
ing, the better qualified to speak with
confidence of their virtues.
The medical profession of Wayne
county sustained the loss by death of
four of its members in the first seven
weeks of the present year, viz: DR..
John F. Miller, DIR. W. H. Finlayson,
DR.. L. P. Aaron and Dr. Thos. Hill.
Two of these, Drs. Miller and Aaron,
were active members of this organiza-
tion at the time of their death, and a
third, DR.. Hill was one of the charter
members, though not in affiliation with
the Association at the time of his death.
The fourth, DIR. Finlayson, had not
been in active practice for many years
prior to his death.
DIR. John Fullenwider Miller was
born in Cleveland county, North Caro-
lima, Dec. 25th, 1884, and died at the
Hospital near Goldsboro on the night
of January 9th, 1906, being therefore a
few days over II years old. DIR. Miller
entered the Confederate States Army
in the early yesrs of the Cival War
and was commissioned Surgeon of the
34th North Carolina Regiment. With
this regiment he was stationed for a
while in Goldsboro, where he was mar
ried. After the close of hostilities he
settled in Goldsboro for the practice of
his profession, and did a general prac-
surrounding country until the beginning
of 1888, when he assumed charge of the
State Hospital for the Insane-then
known as the Eastern North Carolina
Insane Asylum-near the city, as its
superintendent, to which position he
was elected for four successive terms,
having served only nine days of the
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His death was sudden-almost with
out warning. While he had not been
in robust health for some time prior to
his death, there was no Indication of
any immediate change, as he was able
to attend to his usual duties during the
day and up to the time of retiring had
not complained of any i'll feeling.
A marked characteristic of DR.. Mil
ler's life was his geniaity. This he
carried with him, in fact it was part
of his nature, and made him popular as
a physician, as a friend, as a fire-side
companion or as a chance acquaintance.
AS practitioner, he was conservative,
doing general practice, securing anc
holding the confidence of his patrons,
beloved by all, the ideal family physi-
clan. To the poor he was especially
considerate, giving freely of his time
and talents where needed, regardless
of pecuniary consideration.
His most prominent professiona
work has been in connection with the
care of the insane to which he devoted
the last eighteen years of his life. A
a hospital superintendent he was hu
name, skillful and economical. He
was writer of ability and contributed
several papers to societies and journal:
in connection with the treatment O.
the insane.
DIR. Miller took lively interest il
the affairs of medical organization, wa
in frequent attendance upon the meet
ings of the State Society, was the re
preventative of this Association to th'
House of Delegates in 1904, and wa
the President of the County Association
in 1905.
AS man, Dr. Miller was upright
as a citizen, he was broad-minded AM
progressive; as a Christian, he wa
exemplary. He loved his church AM
labored for it's welfare. He loved trutl
and abhorred duplicity.
Leonard Passano Aaron was born il
the town of Warsaw, Duplin county
on Oct. II, 1873. He died suddenly o
heart failure at his home in Noun
Olive on Feb. Is, 1906.
DIR. Aaron came to the county o
Wayne and town of Mount Olive as
small child, and this has been his hom
practically all his life. He was the Sol
ofsthe State Senator d. j. Aaron an
the last of two children to die. Beside
his father, he leaves a devoted wifi
and his mother to mourn his loss. H
was twice married and died childless.
His education was obtained in tn
Mount Olive Graded Schools and Oa
Ridge Academy. He, pursued the stud
of medicine at the North Carolin
Oavidson) Medical College and tn
Department of the University of Mary
land. graduating at the latter institu
ton in 1895. He took post gradual
course at the Johns Hopkins Univer
sity, pursuing special studies in tn
throat and nose work. He settled i
Mount Olive for practice in 1896 an
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