Dr. Fred Hooker Gifford died at his home in Leicester, Mass., June 27, 1917, of a gastric ulcer.
The son of Elias Mann and Caroline (Hooker) Gifford, he was born in Worcester, Mass., May 14, 1851. The greater part of his medical training was obtained at Harvard Medical School, but he finished and obtained his degree at Dartmouth. He practised for a time at sturbridge, Mass., but soon removed to Leicester, where most of his professional life was spent.
August 31, 1881, he was married to Ida E. Whitford, who survives him, with one son.