. History of Worcester and its people . or about fifteen years one of the Statetrustees of the Baldwinville Hospital Cottages for Children, in the management anddevelopment of which he had taken a leading part, and was president of the corpora-tion at the time of his death. He was the first American physician to take a standfor the division of hospital buildings for the insane into separate cottages or last illness was but of a few days duration, and he retained all of his facultiesto the very last moment of his life. Dr. Bemis, married. January i, 1856, Caroline .\. Gilmore, who
. History of Worcester and its people . or about fifteen years one of the Statetrustees of the Baldwinville Hospital Cottages for Children, in the management anddevelopment of which he had taken a leading part, and was president of the corpora-tion at the time of his death. He was the first American physician to take a standfor the division of hospital buildings for the insane into separate cottages or last illness was but of a few days duration, and he retained all of his facultiesto the very last moment of his life. Dr. Bemis, married. January i, 1856, Caroline .\. Gilmore, whose father was forthirty years a successful practitioner at Brookfield, Massachusetts. In his office, infact. Dr. Bemis received his first lessons in medicine and was started on his profes-sional career while a school teacher at Brookfield. They had one child, John Merrick,born at Worcester, February 14, i860. For nearly twenty years Mrs. Bemis was thevaluable and efficient matron of the hospital, and afterwards, for very many years i V. .<^/ -c^ ^^. :^
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