Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-05-14
OBITUARY.
DR.. Henry Mediation.

| Concerning the recent death of for
| mer Norwich Free Academy pupil
| the Mason, Ga, Telegraph of April %
| said:
After an illness of four days OF
| pneumonia, DR.. Henry Mediation. one
| of the best known southern surgeons,
| died yesterday morning at S.45 O'Clock.
| DR.. Mediation had not been in good
| health for the past four years, having
| retired from the active practice of his
profession at that time. He gave up
his home on College street and moved
| to a downtown hotel, wnere he had
lived since
When the break with Germany oc-
I CURED, DIR. and Mrs. Mediation, who is
an active worker in the Red Cross
rendered that organization the use of
their handsome cd home on College
street for the storage of medical sup
plies and for class rooms in which
prospective Red Cross nurses are
| taught first aid.
DR.. Mediation was born on Feb %,
1856, at Baton Rouge. La, the son of
James Alexander Mediation and Eliza
Chinn. He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Eliza Hubbard Mediation, whom
he married in Norwich. Conn, in 1880,
and one son, DIR. Thomas Hubbard Nc
Hatton, head of the department of ag-
riculture of the University of Georgia
at Athens. He is also survived by two
sisters. Mrs. Amelia Mediation Hedges
of New York city, and Mrs James
Moves, of Stamford, Conn.
DR.. Mediation received his academic
education at Gen. RusselPs military
school, New Haven. Conn, and Yale
prepare tory school at Norwich, Conn.
He received his medical education at
Bellevue Medical college, New York
graduating in 1881. For two years he
partment of Bellevue hospital, New
York. He came to Macon and entered
the practice of medicine in the fall of
1882.
At the time Of his death he was sur
geon for the Southern railway at Ma
con. He was the president of the
Medical Association of Georgia in 1904,
president of the Macon Medical society
in 1890; a member of the American
Medical congress, of the Kings Coun-
ty Medical society. of Brooklyn; the
National Geogra phicai society; the
Audubon Society of America, and a
fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
DR. Mediation was largely instru-
NJ entail in founding the Macon hospital.
His family was one Of the best
the delegate to the Charleston Seces-
sion convention representing Louisia-
ia. Immediately after the war be-
tween the states he moved to Cuba
err. His mother was of a family of
equal prominence, her father being
the distinguished Judge Chinn. of Ken
lucky She was the authoress Of sew
with the times of the southern Con-
federacy
The body was taken to Lexington,
KY, for burial.
Mrs. Lyman CapIes.
On Sunday Caroline Caples. 70
years Of age. widow of Lyman CapIes.
died at her late home at No. Quarry
street.
John O'ConneII.
John O'ConnelI, % years of age. died
Sunday in Belleview hospital, New
York, where he has been confined with
pleurisy for q month. Mr.. O'Connell
was employed by the Frapch Cable
Co.. Of New York and was a frequent
visitor in this city. He is survived
by his father who resides in New oYrk
and a sister. Miss Kathleen O'ConnelI
of Elizabeth street. this city.
Frances Lodader.
Frances Loader of Darien died in
Preston on Saturday and on Sunday
morning the body was. sent to Darien
for burial Undertaken eager was in
charge of the arrangementss