CLASS OF 1899

Dr. Jesse Judson Dearborn was born in Milford, N. H., September 26, 1875, and died in his native town October 15, 1918.

His father, Dr. Thomas Benton Dearborn, D.M.S. 1865, died in 1879. His mother, Kate L. Hutchinson, came from the gifted Hutchinson family of singers. Jesse fitted at Milford High School, and was connected with the class of '99 only during freshman year, during which time he was admitted to the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. He was afterward a member for a time of the class of 1900, but did not remain to graduate.

After leaving college he began the study of medicine, and obtained his medical degree from the University of Louisville in 1904. He began practice at Antrim, N. H., where he was successful, well liked, hardworking and happy. A rather severe illness caused the suspension of his work "for a time; when about to go back to the profession he loved and the community which awaited his return, the serious and prolonged sickness of his mother changed the whole course of his life, and, as it proved, terminated his professional career. Through weeks which grew to months and through months which stretched into years, he was his mother's physician, nurse, and constant attendant. Hardly ever out of her sight, rarely out of the sound of her voice, and only for an occasional half hour away from the house, he gave to his invalid mother the care of a good physician, the attention of a skillful nurse, and the affectionate devotion of a loving son.

While year after year his every thought and every moment were given in filial devotion to his invalid mother, of course his established practice vanished, his place in the community was taken by another, and the busy world went on forgetting him. He grew from the years of youth into middle age a doctor with a single patient, but that patient his mother. The relinquishment of the rewards and pleasures of a professional career never cost him regret. He never pitied himself or missed the general recognition or approval of the world about him. When at length she died and he was left to mourn, he was humbly content with the knowledge that he had brought to the declining years of the mother who bore him peace and comfort and happiness.