The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-03-04
LEWIS EDWARD HEMENWAY


To one who was an attendant at the
/ Congregational Church in Manchester
in the late seventies and early eighties
/ ii was a pleasant sight each Sunday to
see the row of little heads in the
Hemenway pew tucked in between
Doctor and Mrs. Hemenway. When
/ the writer first saw them, there were
/ four Of them: Clara, already keeping
a motherly eye on Charles and Lewis
and Ned, her juniors. A little later
they made room for the cousin-sister
Nellie, who had come from the west
to make her home and grow up with
Them and then George completed the
family group.
They learned their A. B. C.'s at
home from Grandpa Hemenway of
blessed memory, and then came the era
when no Sunday school concert or pub
lie school exhibition was complete
without a sprinkling of HemenwaXs
on the program.
Before one knew it they began to 90
to the Seminary and, as Mrs. Hemen-
way once said, for eighteen years the
family kept time to the Seminary
bell
We saw the joy in the faces of the
father and mother on the communion
Sundays when their children came for
ward to take sacred vows upon them
selves, and we began to realize that
they were growing up"
College years followed and the pew
was sometimes full to over-fowing,
sometimes nearly empty, but always
there was the same loyal and loving
comradeship in the family group.
As the years slipped by and the
household band became young men
and women there were partings and
there were weddings, but no break in
the family circle. More than forty
years of happy family life had round
ed out before the break came But it
has come; and today we mourn with
them the loss of one who was husband
and father and son and brother and |
we sorrow for the breaking of all the |
tender ties bound up in these relation
ships.
Almost before we knew he was i'll,
DR.. Lewis Hemenway was called away
in the prime Of his manhood; in the
first years Of his chosen career. Faith
full in his ministry to his patients he
mad over-taxed himself in the emer-
gency caused by the illness of other
physicians in the community and he 4
vas not able to rally from an attack
If pneumonia, which ran its course in
'nly five days.
Lewis Edward Hemenway was born
n Manchester on June ~, 1877 He
graduated from the Seminary in 1896
md from Yale College in 1901. His
medical training was had at the Uni
-ersity of Michigan, and the Detroit I
,ollege of Medicine from which he re- ,
eived his diploma in 1907. Then fol-
owed half year as inferno in Troy :
lily Hospital and at the end of that :
ear, 1907 he began practice in his |
ative town. From the first he was
in his profession and gave
romise Of long and useful service to /
he community; such as his father had {
before him. y
On September 21st, 1910, he was s
iarried to Mabel Merrill, only daugh.
sr of Henry Merrill of Bridport and b
and the young people be-
an housekeeping in their own home a
the Center. A little son, Merrill T
iemenway, was born in 1912 and all I
iings seemed to point to prosperous 2
nd happy future for the new house ii
Did when death came and slit the u
lin-spun thread of life on which all Z
lis hung.
Our hearts go out in tenderest sym n,
THY TO the widow and little son in u
e lonely home; to the father and q.
other and brother and sister in far !,
gay Honolulu; and to all the wide
Gle of relationship.
May the God of all comfort who iol
mforteth US in all our tribulation di'
ep their hearts and minds in Jesus tn
rist, AL