CLASS OF 1846

Dr. Andrew Emerson Field died May 9 at the home of his son-in-law, Dr. H. O. Worthen, in Barre, Vt., the cause of his death being a paralytic stroke received April 20. Doctor Field was the son of Alpheus and Rhoda (Emerson) Field, and was born in Berlin, Vt., Dec. 21, 1820. He attended the Washington County Grammar School at Montpelier and Thetford Academy, and taught for ten successive winter terms. He studied medicine with Dr. Orrin Smith of Berlin, and attended lectures at Woodstock and Dartmouth. In 1846 lie began practice in the neighboring town of Orange, and remained there for five years. In 1851 he removed to Washington, Vt., and devoted himself to the hard routine of country practice until 1870. In 1871 he began practice in Barre, being also proprietor of a drug store until 1878. Since about 1895 his health had been too precarious to admit of active practice. While in Washington he was active in town affairs, and repeatedly held town office. In 1857 he represented the town in the state constitutional convention. In 1861 he was appointed one of the examining surgeons for Orange County to examine recruits for the War of the Rebellion, and afterwards served as pension examiner. He was married, Feb. 29, 1848, to Clarinda, daughter of Capt. David Nelson of Orange, who died Deo. 20, 1902. Of their children, a daughter died young and a son and a daughter are still living.