Obituary

CLASS OF 1891

March 1918
Obituary
CLASS OF 1891
March 1918

Dr. Frank Wentworth Plummer died December 15 at his home in Maiden, Mass., of bronchial pneumonia.

He was born in Portsmouth, N. H., February 20, 1870. His parents, Selwin B. and Sarah (Wentworth) Plummer, are both still living. He came to Maiden with his parents when a small child, and prepared for college at Maiden High School. He was in college a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity.

After graduation he entered Harvard Medical School, and received his degree in 1895. After a year at the Worcester City Hospital he returned to Maiden, and had been in practice there ever since.

He was very active in Red Cross work, and had given lectures on surgical dressings at the Maiden Hospital Training School, and had served as chairman of the board of medical inspectors of the public schools of Maiden. He was a member of the Maiden Medical Society and the Middlesex South Medical Society, a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of Center Methodist church.

February 12, 1903, Dr. Plummer was married to Deborah Allen Higgins of Maiden, who survives him, with two sons and two daughters.