| Death of Dr. Joseph N. Bates
Dr. Joseph N. Bates died at his residence on Pearl street, at 4:30 yesterday morning, having for some time been ill with complications of the heart, accompanied with dropsy. He was born in Barre, March 16, 1811, and was therefore nearly 72 years of age. He was a son of Dr. Anson Bates, who long practiced medicine in Barre. The deceased began the study of medicine with his father in the spring of 1829. The following autimn he attended lectures at Dartmouth College, where he remained and graduated in the fall of 1831. For a short time he was at Bowdoin College in Maine. Subsequent to graduating at Dartmouth he attended the lectures of the University of Medicine at Philadelphia and began the practice of his profession in the fall of 1832, at Barre, being then 21 years old. He built up a large practice and acquired a wide reputation in that section of the county. In 1856 he came to Worcester and has since been one of the prominent physicians of the city, having an extended practice and his services being in constant demand as a consulting physician, his success in his profession inspiring confidence in his abilities. At the breaking out of the war, he joined the 15th regiment Massachusetts volunteers, and remained in the service nearly a year, when he returned home and resumed his practice. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. He leaves a secondf wife, and two sons and three daughters, one of the former and one of the latter residing in Barre and the others in Baltimore. Funeral services will be held at the Lincoln House parlors Saturday forenoon at 10 o'clock, and the remains will be taken to Barre for burial, services being held at the homestead at 4 p.m. |