The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-01-03

Alter an unusually long and &C
| tive professional and business career,
DR.. Y. g. Harrington has concluded
| to take a wellearned rest and will
give up active work. The doctor has
been president of the Mankato State
Bank for ten years and for sixteen
years prior to that time was
vice president of the bank.
! AS was stated in The Free
Press last night he has resigned as
| president Of the bank, but he will
continue to be stakeholder and di-
rector in the institution. DR.. Har-
rington has remained in active work
for q longer period of time than
most men, and he is now as keen a
business man as any younger man
and could give most of them cards
and spades in a business deal and
then not be the loser. His profes-
sional life as practicing physician
extended over period of fifty years
Born in South Londonderry, Yer
mont, on August 20, 1880, the doctor
lived a simple and carefree boyhood
indulging in all the mischievous
pleasure of his companions. He at
tended the common schools of Yer
mont and completed his education at
the Medical College at Albany, N Y,
in 1857.
Immediately after finishing his
medical course the doctor located in
Windsor county, Vermont, and his
first patient was a child who was
very i'll with summer complaint. The
sickness yielded to the doctors treat
ment and the child recovered speed
lily.
The news of the young physicians
success was carried throughout the
neighborhood and people came to
him with all their ailments. His Of
flee was little house beside the
road and for fifteen years Dr. Har-
rington labored there, saving lives
and relieving suffering.
1t was in 1872 that he came to
Mankato and commenced his prac-
tice of medicine here. His first Of
flee was located where Mrs. R. D.
Hubbard's residence now stands. On
December 90. 1880. the doctors resi-
dence burned. The fire occurred Just
expired. Mankato was at that time
passing through diphtheria cpl
demic and DR.. Harrington had been
making a professional call in COM
pany with Dr. Davis. The two ply
sicians were riding up Second street
discussing the case when DR. NJ B.
Wood, who was walking met them
and said to DIR. Harrington: "Why
don't you hurry, your house is burn
ing?" SO engrossed We're the two
men in the subject they were dis
cussing that DIR. Harrington did not
realize what DR.. Wood had told him,
and it was not until he was near his
house that he understood that his
home was burning.
At the time of the fire Dr. Har-
rington had in desk in his house
some notes and other valuable pa
pers belonging to his brother. His
first impulse when he saw the fire,
was to recover these papers, He dis
covered the desk in snow drift.
with one of the glass doors broken.
but upon Investigation found the pa
pers all there. The house burned
to the ground and with it nearly all
of the furniture and clothing.
Only short time before his house
burned DR.. Harrington had purchased
a lot and half on the corner of
Jackson and Broad streets now the
G. E. Brett property. He paid ST.
500 cash for the lot and when he
went home that might he told his
wife of his purchase and remarked
that it would have been well had he
had guardian appointed for him
that morning before he left home.
He built the house which now oc-
cupies the corner at cost of about
$4,000. The house was arranged
with two rooms for an office. This
was the first house in Mankato for
which architects plans were used.
In 1891 the doctor sold that prop !
erty to G. f. Brett and moved his
office into the Young Mems Invest.
ment Company building, which stood
on the corner now occupied by the !
Elks Club, The building burned in
1896 and DR.. Harrington and his
wife went to Europe after the fire,
year and a half.
During his sojourn in Europe the |
doctor took trip up the Nile and
also visited in Palestine. He also |
spent some time in the hospitals |
there and could not see that the hos.
pitfalls nor doctors had any advantage |
over the hospitals and men here.
Upon their return from Europe DR..