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MCCURDY, JOHN JR (1843-1885)

MCCURDY, JOHN JR, doctor; b. Chatham, 22 Apr 1843, s/o John McCurdy and Catherine Thomson; brother of James Frederick McCurdy; m. 1868, Marilla P. Stiles, of Hopewell, Albert Co., N.B.; d. Chatham, 3 Apr 1885.

John McCurdy Jr studied at the County Grammar School under James Millar and at the Presbyterian college in Truro, N.S. He had a "literary bent" and wrote poetry but also possessed "a marked aptitude for scientific study" which induced him to enter the field of medicine. Following a "distinguished course" at McGill College (MD CM 1866), he practiced in Saint John for two years. He then returned to Chatham and opened an office in his home on Wellington Street.

McCurdy's "sympathy with his patients brought him a large clientage, especially among the poor and obscure," and he was reputed to be a skillful physician. In 1877 he was appointed a coroner. His career was cut short, however, when he became ill with Bright's Disease and died in 1885, at less than forty-two years of age. His widow, Marilla P. Stiles, died the next year, at age forty-one. Only six of their eleven children lived to adulthood and only four lived beyond young adulthood. Two daughters married and raised families in the United States.

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[b] church records [m] Visitor 5 Mar 1868 [d] Advocate 8 Apr 1885 / Advocate 17 Dec 1868; Gleaner 12 May 1866, 4 Aug 1866; McCurdy Genealogy; Royal Gazette 5 Sep 1877; tombstone


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