Class Notes

CLASS OF 1896

December 1920
Class Notes
CLASS OF 1896
December 1920

Dr. Charles Anthony Orwday died of influenza at Whidden Memorial Hospital, Everett, Mass., September 24, 1918.

The son of Charles Hutchinson and Ann Maria (Lane) Ordway, he was born in Concord, N. H., October 11, 1873. He attended the public schools of Concord, and graduated from the high school.

From January to June, 1896, he was house officer at Whidden Memorial Hospital. He was then in practice for a short time in Chelmsford, Mass., then in Billerica, and finally for over twenty years in Everett. He had been house surgeon of the hospital since 1905. Since January, 1918, he had been of the staff of the Boston Dispensary, specializing on the ear, nose and throat. He was at one time city physician, and at the time of his death was school physician. He was successful in his profession, and personally popular.

He was a member of the Everett and Massachusetts Medical Societies, and of the American Medical Association. He was a Mason and Odd Fellow, and connected with other fraternal orders.

March 28, 1900, he was married to Jennie Gertrude Wilson, who survives him. They had one child, not now living.