The Republican journal., 1911-06-29
DEATH OF DIR. C. C. WELD

Many in this section will learn with re-
gret of the death in Brookline, Mass,
June 18th, of Dr. Charles Goddard Weld,
for many years summer resident of
North Haven, a yachtsman, an all-around
sportsman and everybody's friend. Death
resulted from a stroke of paralysis suf
fered while in Nova Scotia, where he had
a fishing box DIR. Weld was in his 54th
year and was born in Brookline, the son
of William G. and Caroline Goddard
Weld. He attended the schools of Brook
line and entered Harvard with the class
of 10, but left during the middle Of the
course to attend the Harvard Medical
school, from which he was graduated.
Having completed his course he became
connected with the Massachusetts, Cen
eral hospital, where he achieved much
success as a surgeon. In the Harvard
class of 10 which he entered were men
who became afterwards distinguished as
physicians and surgeons. Among them
We're Vincent Y. Bowditch, Herbert Les
lie Burrell, Samuel Jason Mixter, Henry
Hun, Morton Prince, Myles Standish and
John Brooks Wheeler. DIR. Weld leaves
wife, formerly Miss Hannah P. Train,
daughter Of William Graham and Mary
Elizabeth Train of Duxbury, also a
daughter, Miss Mary Weld. The Boston
Transcript pays merited tribute to the
looaoeal xuh1oh fol-
lows:
Those who knew him longest and best
interrupt their flow of tribute and of ad-
miration to speak of his aggressive
character, and his brusque, often abrupt
manner with the feeling that it would be
unjust to leave this side of him unmen-
toned, since he was, first of all. man
of the force and energy which he had
apparently inherited from his grand
father, William F. Weld, who, in the
language of our time would be called a
captain of industry and, in the Ian
guage of his own, merchant prince. !"
It was this determination, this agrees
siveness, which made the young Weld, S
an undergraduate in Harvard, formid-
able adversary with the gloves and one
of the best oarsmen on the river, which
made him in the early years of his pro-
fessional career one of the best shots
at the clay pigeons in New England
(Which he represented against Western
for the most of his life, skillful sailor
very different things and not united in
one person. The love of vessels wa1 in
the Weld blood. The merchant fleets of
his grandfather, when America had a
merchant marine which could outsail
England's, swept the seas from the
North Atlantic to the East Indies, and
those brave days Dr. Weld commemorate
ed on the walls Of his living-room with
models of every ship and barque of that
fleet which was extant. And in very
recent years he added a wing to the
Peabody Museum at Salem in part from
his fondness for memorials of the halcyon
days of the American merchant navy,
though more from his interest in ethnol-
ogical studies and the work of Professor
Morse. If that merchant navy must
become obsolete, it is at least fitting and
pleasant that it should be commemorate
ed, in sense, by the Weld boathouse in
Cambridge.
Rowing, boxing, shooting and sailing
were successfully his recreations, anc
they made of him in his youth no ordi:
nary athlete, and in his prime man Of
robust physique. Yachtsmen recall some
dozen craft with which his name and his
number, t'39,'' at the Eastern Yacht
Club, were identified in the course Of
thirty-odd years, among them the sloopi
Philip; the schooner Magic" thu
schooner which won the Americas Cup