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- Marvin Smith was a physician settled in practice in Westfield, MA.
He was killed at Norwalk, with many other physicians, by the cars in which they were riding falling through an open bridge, as they were returning form a medical convention held at New York. The draw bridge had been withdrawn, and no signal was given to the cars and they ran off into the river.
A son of Dr. Marvin Smith, in 1873, occupied his grandfather's chair as Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine at Yale College.
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"James Morven Smith, for twelve years the ackowleged head of the medical profession in Hampden county and one of the most distinguished physicians of his time in New England was born in Hanover, NH in 1806, the son of Dr Nathan Smith, who was an eminent physician and a medical lecturer and author of wide repute.
James M Smith, a Yale graduate, located in Westfield,MA in 1830, practiced in that town until 1838, when he removed to Baltimore, MD. In 1841 he came to Springfield, MA and engaged in professional work until the time of his death in a railway disaster in Norwalk, CT in 1853.
He is well-remembered by many of our older citizens, and recollections of his professional life are treasured memories with them."
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1805 - 1853 (47 years)
