Clough & Sons, M. D.
Total war has dissolved, temporarily, a recently formed Dartmouth medical triumvirate in New London, N. H. The name is Clough - Dr. William P. Clough m'11, Dr. Joseph M. Clough '31, and Dr. William P. Clough Jr. '34. The communal offices, opened this fall, are in a house built in 1858 by another Dartmouth physician, Dr. Solomon M. Whipple m'48, who practiced in New London for 35 years and had two sons, Dr. Ashley C. Whipple m' 74 and Dr. George Whipple. Now, however, Dr. Joseph Clough, a Ist Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps for some years, has been stationed at the U. S. Army Hospital at Ft. Ethan Allen.
Although the medical families have no blood ties, associations are as firmly embedded as New Hampshire's boulders. Dr. Clough Sr. was born in a house which Dr. Whipple Sr. sold to his father, Gen. Joseph Clough. It was sentiment that recently removed the "not for sale" sign from the Whipple homestead and allowed it to be sold to the Cloughs after two score years.
Dr. Clough Sr., known throughout central New Hampshire as "Doctor Bill." has practiced in New London for go years except for a World War period when he served in a French base hospital with the 82nd Division. Dr. Joseph, a graduate of Jefferson College of Medicine, Philadelphia, in 1936, specialized in eye, ear, nose, and throat diseases at Massachusetts General. Dr. William Jr. graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in 1937, interned at the Newton, Massachusetts, Hospital, served at Boston's Lying-in, and is a specialist in surgery and obstetrics.
