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NAME FERGUSON 382 FIELD serious a disease had any significance in his case. He died in Chicago, October 20, 1911. Thomas S. Cullen. Ferguson, Everard D. (1843-1906). This surgeon was born in Moscow, Living- stone County, New York, on May 9, 1843, and was educated academically at Genesee College, University of Michigan, graduating from Belle- vue Hospital Medical College in 1868. After practising in New York State in Essex and Dannemora, he settled in Troy and remained there until his death on September 8, 1906. He married, in 1864, Marion A. Farlay, and had a son and a daughter. He was a master of quick, accurate clinical diagnosis and his insight into complicated conditions was astonishing. As an operator, too, he had consummate ability in overcom- ing any unforeseen emergency. For twenty- five years ht was summoned hither and thither in New York State and his resources for keep- ing appointments were amusing. He would sometimes get a lift on a freight train or an engine, once doing what was an unparalleled thing in those days, having the New York Al- bany express stopped to take him up. Keenly interested in medical literature and societies, he was a founder of the New York State Medical Association and its president in 1899, also originator and a founder of the Medical Association of Troy. His biggest work was founding the Samaritan Hospital in Troy, for which he raised about a quarter of a million dollars by private solicitation. He himself was chief of its medical and surgical staff, and at death had done some 2,153 opera- tions, of which 907 were abdominal sections. His chief contribution to medical literature was the editing of and writing original arti- cles in the "Transactions of the New York State Medical Association," writing them in good virile English. His alert intelligence and good oratory made him also a welcome addi- tion at medical meetings. James P. Marsh. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc. 1906, vol. xlvii, 9.^3. New York Med. Jour., :906, vol. Ixxxiv, 354. Fernald, Reginald (1595-1656). The state of New Hampshire had its be- ginning at Strawberry Bank in 1623, and the little colony had the severest hardships of life on the frontier. It was without a physi- cian for eight years, then in 1631 there was an arrival in the colony of some fifty men and half as many women on the ship Warwick, which dropped anchor in the harbor on July 4, 1631. AmonK these was Dr. Reginald Fernald, who was the first physician to set- tle in the province of New Hampshire, and the second in New England. Dr. Fernald was born in Bristol, England, July 6, 1595. He is said to have resigned a position in the English Navy to come to America. From the few records of his career that have been left to us, it is known that he was a man of more than ordinary ability, and served the colony to which he had joined him- self with honor and fidelity. Soon after his arrival he was elected cap- tain of the military company in the little colony, was drawn as grand juror in 1643, elected town recorder in 1654-1655, was trial justice of the peace, recorder of deeds, sur- veyor and commissioner, and clerk of Portsmouth. The name of Strawberry Bank was changed to Portsmouth through the efforts of Dr. Fernald in a petition which he and four others presented to the General Court in May, 1653. The first coroner's inquest held in New Hampshire was in January, 1655, by a jury of twelve men, under the direction of Dr. Fernald, who certifies that the said jury returned the following verdict : "Wee whose names are subscribed doe testi- fie how wee found Thomas Tuttell, the son of John Tuttell, by the stump of a tree which he had newly fallen upon another limb of the other tree, rebounding back and fell upon him, which was the cause of his death as wee consider. This was found the last day of the last March." Dr. Fernald died at Portsmt^uth, October 6, 1656. Ira Joslin Prouty. Field, Edward Mann (1823-1888). Edward Mann Field was born Jiily 27, 1823, at Belfast, Maine, the son of Bohan Prentice and Abigail Davis Field. He graduated at Bow- doin in the class of 1845 and studied medicine with Dr. Daniel McRuer, of Bangor, who was an excellent surgeon in the days before the dis- covery of asepsis. He attended medical lec- tures at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where he received his degree in 1849, then went to Europe and was for two years in the leading hospitals in London and Paris. Returning from Europe, well drilled in medicine and chiefly in obstetrical science, he settled in Bangor in 1850, gained an ex- cellent practice, and married Sally Russ McRuer, a daughter of his medical preceptor, and had two daughters. He became extremely popular as an ac- coucheur, and during many years is said to