Putnam patriot., 1912-05-17
Woodstock Mourns the Loss of Her
 Physician

loss of Dr. Gildersleeve and his wife who have now lasting place in the affection of the townspeople. | Dr. Gildersleeve was born April 2S, 1866, at Northport, N. f., where bis father, grandfather and great grand father were born. His father was Samuel Gildersleeve and his mother I Annette Childs, daughter of Charles | Childs of East Woodstock.
 His parents moved to New York city when he was four years old. He attended the New York city public schools and spent two years at the University of New York. When his i fathers health failed he left to enter a large grain and flour commission house where he remained two years, leaving to accompany his family to Wood | stock.
 After his fathers death in 1887 he | carried on the farm-the Charles l Childs homestead which had been in the family for five generations-for seven years.
 He then entered Yale University where he graduated from the Medical l Department in 1896. He graduated from the Worcester, tMass.) City Hos. pital in 1897 and has praeticed medi. cine in East Woodstock since; about fifteen years, and has been most sue cessful.
 1 He has s large clientele in Wood stock and surrounding towns and be. sides his arduous labors has been deep. l ly interested in town affairs. He has been for the past seven years secretary of the Woodstock school board and has been indefatigable and self sacrificing in his efforts to help improve the town schools. He has been for fourteen years physician and surgeon to the Day kimball hospital. He is: kx-president Windham county med. teal society.
 Member Connecticut and American medical associations. Member Yale alumni medical asso. ciation.
 Member Worcester City Hospital alumni association.
 Medical examiner l4 Life Insurance companies.
 Ex-master Senexet grange.
 secretary Windham Pomons grange.
 l Ex-assistant state secretary Connec. ticut state grange.
 Ex-secretary Woodstock Aghcultu ral society.
 l Vice president Woodstock Theft De. tecting society.
 Vice president Child family associa- ton.
 Ex-superintendent East Woodstock Congregational Sunday school.
 A Mason, an Odd Fellow, and mem. Der of the A. 0. U. W.
 He married in June, 1896, Susie May Corbin, daughter of Deacon Frank and Mary Bradford Corbin of West Wood. stock. Mrs. Gildersleeve has always | school worker and her co. workers are in despair of filling her place. She is a popular member of L'Apres MidI club, a member of the Woman's Board of the Day Kimball hospital and prominent member of the East Woodstock Reading club, also one oi the assistant uperintendents of the East Woodstock Sunday school.
 Dr. and Mrs. Gildersleeve have three children: Harold, thirteen years; Don aid, twelve, and Dorothy, five.
 In spite of the rain, over three hun dred people attended the reception given Dr. and Mrs. Gildersleeve in tho Congregational Church, East Wood stock, Monday evening" from eight tt ten o'clock. Guests were present from Southbridge, Webster, Dudley, Put nam, PomfIet, New Boston, Hartford and all the Woodstocks. Promptly al eight o'clock Morse's Orchestra of Put nam sent forth their pleasing strains and shortly after that the receiving party took their places in line. Assist ing pr. and Mrs. Gildersleeve in re ceiving their friends were Mrs. Mary | Bradford Corbin, Mrs. Annette M Gildersleeve, and MT. and Mrs. John 5. May.
 Rev. MT. Turner, Louis Linderman ard GeorgeiA. Wetherell had charge of the arrangements; they had an able crops of ushers in Dr. c. H. Merrill oi Dudley, Messrs Arthur G. Morse, Will liam C. Child, Harris 5. May of Wood stock and MT. Ebert C. Kinney oi Putnam. Refreshments were served the entire evening in the parlors of the church, the refreshments consisted oi cake and punch. The ladies serving 1 were; Mrs. l.. H Linderman, Mrs. T A. Turner, Mrs. c. A, Wetherell, Mrs A. G. Morse, Mrs. c. E. May, Mrs. F A. Jordan, Miss Nellie Pratt, Mis; Julia May, Miss Carrie Lewis, Misses Mabel and Edith Eddy, Miss Flora B Alton, Mrs. Emma C. Bixby, Mrs. E k. May.
 The parlors were prettily decorated with apple blossoms, and the churcf with potted plants and ferns.
 After the three hundred guests hat shaken hands with Dr. and Mrs I GildersIeeye and their assistants, Rev MT. Turner, as chairman of the com mittee, presented the following speak CTS and programme: Mrs. Clarence t