CLASS OF 1861

Dr. Oren Hart Boynton was born in Meredith, N. H„ August 20, 1834, and died of pneumonia in Lisbon, N. H., March 24, 1909. His parents were Ebenezer and Betsey (Smith) Boynton. His early education was acquired in the schools of his native town, at Holderness, and for three terms at the New Hampton Institution. In early life he followed the carpenter's trade. His medical studies were pursued with his brother, Dr. Charles H. Boynton of Lisbon, and at Dartmouth, followed by postgraduate work at Harvard. In 1861 he began practice at Lisbon in partnership with his brother. In 1862 he took the place at Bath, N. H., of Dr. William Child, D. M. S. '57, who had become assistant surgeon of the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers. In the spring of 1865, on the return of Dr. Child, Dr. Boynton went back to Lisbon. He had an extensive practice, and was untiring in his devotion to his profession until than twenty years ago his health began to fail, and he went to Southern Pines, N. C., each winter for several years, returning to Lisbon in the spring and resuming work. He invested in land at Southern Pines, and built a few cottages there. After the death in 1891 of Dr. W. B. Moody, D. M. S. '50, he went to Franconia for two summers to take the practice of the late physician. He was a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society and of the White Mountain Medical Society, having been secretary and president of the latter. He was pension examining surgeon four years during President Cleveland's first term, had been chairman of the local board of health, and served on the board of education both in Lisbon and in Bath. Owing to partial blindness and other infirmities, Dr. Boynton gave up active practice some years before his death, but helped his son, who succeeded him. His wife, who survives him, was Alice E. Hollister, to whom he was married July 25,1861. They have had three sons, of whom two survive, Dr. Perry S. Boynton '90 of New York, and Dr. Harry H. Boynton of Lisbon.