CLASS OF 1877

Dr. Frank Blaisdell died at his home in Goffstown, N. H., January 16, 1919, of broncho-pneumonia.

He was born in Goffstown, May 28, 1852, his parents being Stephen and Amanda (Marshall) Blaisdell. He attended the schools of his native town and the Swedenborgian Academy at Contoocook.

He pursued his medical studies under the direction of Dr. George E. Hersey and Prof. Lyman B. How '60 of Manchester and Prof. C P. Frost '52 of Hanover, and received his medical degree in November, 1876. He immediately began practice in his native town, and continued there until his death.

Dr. Blaisdell was at one time president of the New Hampshire Medical Society and also of the New Hampshire Surgical Club. He was chairman of the town board of health for a long time, and a member of the school board for more than twenty-five years. He served on the board of physicians and surgeons of the Elliott Hospital, Manchester, and was physician and surgeon at the county hospital at Grasmere. In 1902 he delivered the address to the graduating class of Dartmouth Medical School. He wrote several papers on different branches of the profession, and was especially interested in operative obstetrics.

August 29, 1877, he was married to Anna I., daughter of George N. and Mary A. (Chandler) White of Goffstown, who died April 27, 1919. There were three children, Arthur G., Percy N. (who died May 6, 1919), and William E.