Maine Memory Network

Surgeon office opening announcement, Wiscasset 1871

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1871-03-29 Location: Wiscasset Media: Ink on paper

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Surgeon request to join regiment, Augusta, 1861

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1861-12-17 Location: Augusta; Lowell Media: Ink on paper

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Henry H. Brock building, Alfred, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Alfred Client: Dr. Brock Architect: Frederick A. Tompson

Workman's Cottage for Dr. Henry H. Brock, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Client: H.H Brock Architect: Frederick A. Tompson

Surgeon General Alonzo Garcelon

Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston was a physician, politician, businessman, and civic leader when he became Maine's surgeon general during the Civil War, responsible for ensuring regiments had surgeons, for setting up a regimental hospital in Portland, and generally concerned with the well-being of Maine soldiers.

Lt. Charles A. Garcelon, 16th Maine

The son of Maine's surgeon general and nephew of a captain in the 16th Maine, Charles A. Garcelon of Lewiston served in Co. I of the 16th Maine. His letters home in the first 17 months of his service express his reflections on war and his place in it.

Mercy Hospital - Founding of Mercy

… Marion Weeks, the daughter of a distinguished surgeon in town, donated a portion of her property on the intersection of Congress and State Street…

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

… for Major John Quincy Adams Hawes, a retired Army surgeon who operated a pharmacy in downtown Hallowell.

My work as chief of surgery at Mercy Hospital
by Dr. Robert McAfee, MD

Dr. McAfee, MD, former chief of surgery discussed his former colleagues and his work at Mercy

My Mom was a nurse in the 8055 MASH, Korea
by Pat MacPherson

I’m so proud of my mother and the thousands of Army & Navy nurses who served in WWII & Korea