Medical School

1900

DR. BENJAMIN PORTER HURD died November 17, 1944, in Waterville, Maine, as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage.

He was born in Unity, Maine, January 7, 1872, the son of Andrew Jackson and Abbey Hurd. After graduation from the Dartmouth Medical School he practised for eleven years in Thorndike, Maine, where he also served as town clerk. For the next thirty-five years he practised medicine and surgery in Waterville, Maine.

Dr. Hurd was a member of the Maine Medical Association and while in Thorndike he was a member and Master of the Blue Lodge.

On July 12, 1898, he was married to Olive Lavina Rand of Unity, Maine. Mrs. Hurd survives, with their daughter Mrs. Barbara Hurd Worthen of Reading, Mass.

Daniel Webster had such dark features that when he arrived at Dartmouth College as a freshman in 1797 the onlookers formed the idea that President John Wheelock had at last succeeded in bringing an Indian back to the college after a lapse of ten years. "Black Dan" was the nickname he carried throughout his college course.