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FISH, HIRAM ALEXANDER (1852-1897)

FISH, HIRAM ALEXANDER, doctor; b. Newcastle, 11 Jan 1852, s/o James Alexander Fish and Elizabeth MacAllister; brother of James Ogilvie Fish, William Ellis Fish, and Charles Elijah Fish; half-brother of John Fish; unmarried; d. Newcastle, 26 Jan 1897.

Hiram A. Fish attended the Newcastle Grammar School and studied medicine with Dr John S. Benson, as preparation for enrolling in the University of New York for formal medical training. He graduated with his MD in 1878 and opened a practice in Newcastle the next year. He was appointed a coroner in 1881.

Fish's surgical skills were said to be unequaled on the Miramichi, and he was in demand as a medical mentor. Among those whom he admitted as students were Crawford M. Hutchison, who became a pharmacist, and Robert Nicholson, who became a physician. He took an active part in organizations in the community, including the Masonic order, and was worshipful master of Northumberland Lodge in 1884. In the words of the Union Advocate, he was "genial, generous and popular with all classes of people," but he was beset by illness much of the time and was unable to work at all during the three years prior to his death in 1898, at age forty-five.

Sources

[b] church records [d] Advocate 2 Feb 1898 / Advance 22 Dec 1881; Advocate 14 Mar 1878, 15 Sep 1897 (for example); Manny Collection (F182)


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