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Biographies
A
HISTORY
OF THE
FIRST Century
OF THE TOWN OF
PARSONSFIELD, MAINE
INCORPORATED AUG. 29 1785
AND
CELEBRATED WITH IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES,
NORTH PARSONSFIELD,
AUGUST 29, 1885.
PORTLAND, ME.
BROWN THURSTON & COMPANY
1888
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S. H. Weeks |
PROF. STEPHEN
HOLMES WEEKS, M. D., (see page 153)
Son of John and Mehitable (Holmes) Weeks, and
great grandson of Rev. Samuel Weeks, who settled in town
two years prior to its incorporation, was born in Cornish, Oct.
6, 1835. His education was obtained at Fryeburg academy,
and he pursued the study of medicine at the Portland school for
Medical Instruction, attending lectures at Bowdoin, and also at
the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1864.
He immediately settled in Portland in general practice.
Soon after, he became teacher of anatomy and surgery in the
Portland school, and in 1877 was appointed to the chair of
Anatomy in the Medical School of Maine; and four years later was
appointed to the chair of Surgery made vacant by the death of
Prof. William Warren Greene, which
position he still holds. For the past twelve years his
practice has been mostly consultation and surgery. He is a
member, and has been President of the Cumberland County Medical
Society; a member of the Maine Medical Association, and of the
American Medical Association; and was a member of the
International Medical Congress, which met at Washington, D. C.,
in September, 1887, and was a member of the Council of the
Section on Gynecology, presenting in that section a noteworthy
paper, and taking an active part in its discussions. He
has contributed articles of interest and profit to the
transactions of the Maine Medical Association; and has made
several contributions to the American Medical Association.
In the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal for Nov. 24, 1887,
appears an interesting report by him of a case of nephrectomy
for hydronephrosis. He belongs to the Surgical staff of
the Maine General Hospital, and also is consulting surgeon of
the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary. Besides his many
operations of more or less magnitude, he has made rising fifty
abdominal sections. As a surgeon, and as a consulting
physician, he approaches his work studiously and
contemplatively, with an honesty of purpose and a calmness and
clearness of judgment, as well as with a thoroughness of
knowledge and practical skill which insure success. In his
intercourse with others he is dignified and deferential in
manner, though fixed and determined in spirit. He was
married soon after graduating, to Miss Mary, daughter of Rev.
P. C. Richmond of Frye burg, and they have one daughter,
Marion Richmond.
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