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'''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MASuppNecrologiesNR#ORR.2C_HECTOR_1770-1855 SN]'''
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''From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XV, No. 5, March 1856, Page 143:''
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'''''MEMOIR OF BROTHER HECTOR ORR, M.D., Prepared by a Committee of [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Fellowship Fellowship ]Lodge, Bridgewater, and ordered to be entered on the records of said Lodge, and published in this Magazine.'''''
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The subject of this Memoir, was born in Bridgewater, Mass., the 24th of March, 1770. He was a son of Col. Robert Orr, who resided several years in Springfield, Mass., was Master Armorer in the United States Arsenal, and died in that place in 1811, aged sixty-five years. He was a son of Hon. Hugh Orr, who came from Scotland, and settled in Bridgewater in 1740, and married Mary, daughter of Capt. Jonathan Bass, by whom he had several children, of whom Robert was the oldest. He died in 1798, aged eighty-two years.
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Dr. Hector Orr pursued his preparatory studies for the University, under the direction of Hon. Beza Hayward, and Rev. John Reed, D. D. He passed the usual course at Cambridge College, and graduated with honor in 1792. He studied medicine under the direction of Dr. Ephraim Wales, of Randolph, and settled in his native town in 1794 — was married to Mary, daughter of Oaks Angier, Esq., in 1795, by whom he had five children.
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For further particulars, in relation to his medical, political and general character, the reader is referred to the subjoined memoir, kindly furnished and prepared to our hand at the instance of his family, by Rev. Mr. Williams.
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'''HIS MASONIC RELATIONS.'''
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R. W. Br. Orr was made a Mason while an under-graduate of Harvard Univer
sity, in 1791, in [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=KingSolomon King Solomon's] Lodge in Charlestown, shortly after he attained his twenty-first year. We know but little of his Masonic history, for the next five years, other than his assiduity in informing himself in the principles and practice of the ancient craft.
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In 1796 or 1797, he headed a petition to the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, for a Charter, to constitute him, with his associates, a regular Lodge; the prayer was granted, and the charter bears date the 15th of June, 1797. Of the Brethren named in the charter, Brother Orr stands first; and he outlived not only all those named in the charter, but all who belonged to the Lodge at the time of its installation; which took place on the 18th day of October, 1797, and by the name of [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Fellowship Fellowship] Lodge. Brother Orr was installed its first Master, in ample form. A sermon was delivered on the occasion, by Rev. Brother [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MAGLTHarris T. M. Harris]; followed by an address from W. Brother Orr, both of which were printed. Shortly after this, Col. Robert Orr petitioned the Lodge for the honors of Masonry; and being accepted, our W. Brother had the honor and satisfaction of making his father a Brother Mason. Brother Orr presided over the Lodge till 1799, when he was appointed by President Adams, a surgeon in the Navy, which office he held about three years.
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On his return home, he was re-elected, and presided over the Lodge most of the time, till 1811. In 1818, he was appointed D.D.G.M. He continued to visit the Lodge when his convenience permitted, and took a lively interest in the prosperity of the craft, until the close of his life; which event occurred April 29th, 1855, aged 85 years.
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He never lost his confidence in the perpetuity of the Institution, even in the darkest period of its history. W. Brother Orr presided over the Lodge with great dignity and affability, and such was his familiarity with the theory and practice of Masonry, that all were delighted to see him in the Chair; no one wished to occupy it in his presence, for he was the man whom all delighted to honor.
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In addition to a pleasing address, he seemed to have an intuitive perception of the feelings and general character of those with whom he conversed, and his power of adapting himself to the various characters of mankind, was truly remarkable ; and yet, he has been known at times, to approach a neighbor with a sort of bluntness approaching to rudeness, which would sometimes wake up ''Madam Resentment''; but before she could rally her forces for a combat, he would give such a turn to his salutation, that she would find herself disarmed, and so retire abashed, while the doctor would have gained his object, (viz. the development of some hidden qualify in his neighbor's temperament,) unperceived by the subject, and, without any apology, converse and part with more kindly feelings than before the interview.
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That Brother Orr, by a strict conformity to its principles and precepts, conferred honor upon the craft, we are proud to acknowledge — while at the same time we consider him as indebted to Masonry, for many of the noble and excellent qualities which adorned his life. Brother Orr was made a Mason in the year of his majority, and about a year before he graduated. At that time be was of an ardent and reckless temperament, and not much under the restraints of religion. Here then, just before he slipped from the leading strings of the University, Masonry took him by the hand, pressed him to her bosom, and pledged him most solemnly, and affectionately, to listen to her instructions, and to walk in her ways. Having a retentive memory, he soon made himself master of its theory and practice; and thus being qualified fur a teacher, he was employed to teach and instruct others; and the principles and studies which he endeavored to enforce upon them, had a salutary influence upon his own heart and life. He has been observed, by those who were not Masons, in cases of emergency, to fall back upon his Masonic principles; as for  instance: When  one told him that Mr. --- had been speaking evil of him, he would  say, "O ! he did not mean to harm me, he has probably been misinformed as to the facts; any-how, Masonry charges us to put the most favorable construction upon the words and actions of mankind." Again, when injured and abused by a neighbor, and a few days after, when that neighbor was taken ill, and sent for him, one who happened to he present, said, "Why, doctor, you don't think of going to see that man?" "Certainly I do. Masonry does not allow us to render evil for evil, but we must overcome evil with good."
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''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MASuppNecrologiesAG#EDSON.2C_JOHN_1786-1865 John Edson], [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MASuppNecrologiesAG#AMES.2C_JONATHAN_d._1868 Jonathan Ames], Isaac Howard, Jarvis D. Burrell, 
Dec. 17th, 1855, Committee.''
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'''HIS PROFESSIONAL AND PRIVATE LIFE''', ''by  REV. MR. WILLIAMS.''
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Dr. Orr received the commission of surgeon in the Navy in 1796, from John Adams, President of the United States. In 1802 he was appointed Adjutant, and resigned in 1825. He was elected Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1801, and served as counsellor of this society nearly forty years. He received from his alma mater the honorary degree of doctor in medicine in 1818. He held various offices of trust in his birth-place — was its Representative and a Justice of the Peace — 1817 he read the annual dissertation before the Medical Society, "On the Properties of Animal and Vegetable_Life." His pen was seldom idle, as his manuscripts both in prose and verse, clearly prove, and his thoughts took a wide scope and embraced a variety of subjects, all evencing a strong, original, classical and highly cultivated mind; 1795, he married Mary, daughter of Hon. Oakes Angier, a counsellor at law, of great eminence, and extensive popularity. A venerable divine, in speaking of him, called him "the Webster of his day," and remarked, that he was a student at law of John Adams, President of the United States, and had as a student, among many other eminent men, the late lamented Judge Davis, of Boston. (Dr. Orr lost by death his amiable and intelligent lady in 1853.) From 1795 to 1850, he continued to a greateror less extent in professional and honorable practice, both as surgeon arid physician. He was ever prompt to the call of duty, and eminently successful and quick and acute in his perception of cases. In a poem written in his 80th year, he speaks of his naval voyage under Commodore Preble —
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Far distant India's seas and coast,<br>
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Fatigued I've cruised; its dangers bore.
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Iu the same poem he thus feelingly and with a graphic pen, describes his excursions and exposures as a physician. They will find a ready response in the heart of every son of Æsculapius.
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I've gone at darkest hours of night<br>
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When winter's drilling snows were deep; <br>
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When moon and stars withheld their light, <br>
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And boisterous winds awoke from sleep.<br>
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Nerved to the task, I've stemmed the storms, <br>
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Through fields and bogs and forests drear;<br>
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Through tangled vines and prickly thorns, <br>
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Without a friend my heart to cheer.<br>
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Not scorching summer's fervid heat,<br>
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Nor tempest black, nor drenching rain, <br>
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The ardor of my heart defeat; <br>
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Nor duty's needful toils restrain.<br>
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Of hardships I have had my share,<br>
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And perils both by sea and land <br>
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Inhaled the pestilential air,<br>
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And felt contagion's withering hand.<br>
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Of life I've seen its "ups and downs";<br>
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Enjoy'd its smiles and fell its pains; <br>
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Embraced its gifts and met its frowns,<br>
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Its ebbing current in my veins.<br>
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With weakened limbs and anxious breast,<br>
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Close on life's slippery brink I tread <br
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Mourn for companions now at rest,<br>
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And friends commingled with the dead.<br>
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Long since from public life retired,<br>
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Professions, cares, almost resigned; <br>
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Elate with buoyant hopes inspired,<br>
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Some peace, and rest, I yet may find.<br>
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If still continued days remain,<br>
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For me kind Heaven has reserved, <br>
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Confess its blessings, undeserved.
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Dr. Orr was beloved in domestic life — faithfully discharged its duties, and was keenly alive to every tender sympathy and generous affection. He loved his country, and repeatedly delivered public addresses, calculated to sustain and add honor to its patriotic and valuable institutions. He devoted much time to public objects and was ready to bear his proportion of all public burdens.
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Dr. Orr's reading was extensive and varied, and his memory remarkably and correctly retentive. His mind was richly embued with the literature of the old English School and Latin classics. Milton, Young and Burns, Horace, Virgil and Juvenal, were familiar to him as household words, and his quotations from them, were habitual. Few men ever collected from books and life so large a body of pertinent anecdotes, or related them with greater zest and effect. His penetration could detect the gold, in its ore, and discover mines, where less perceptive minds saw only a desert. Lord Bacon's aphorism, that " Reading makes a full man, writing a correct, and conversation a ready man," was well exemplified in him. He was always full, correct, and ready. A vein of humour, a brilliant wit, and vivacity, enlivened his conversation and seasoned it as with Attic salt, almost to the last, for at the advanced age of 85 his intellectual powers were bright, firm and unshaken.   
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His remarks were pleasant and facetious and his circle of intimate friends will long recollect his scintillations of flashing wit as well as the circumstances which gave them pungency and point. But related now, without the auxiliaries of time and place, they must in some degree fail of effect. For true wit, like the foaming champagne, must be imbibed with the first sparkle, or it becomes vapid and tasteless. I will, notwithstanding, venture to relate some few instances of his readiness, that occur to my mind. Conversing with him once on the subject of diet and the food of different nations —he suddenly inquired if I knew what Queen Dido ate (Dido, the heroine of Virgil's ''Æneid''.) I allowed my total ignorance on this important topic. "Why," said the Dr., "you are strangely forgetful of ''Virgil'', for he says in so many ''words'', ''Dido et dux''." (The literal translation is, Dido and the leader; Latin, Dido et dux.) Again, on his inquiring after my health — I replied, in a manner unusual with me, and by no means elegantly, " Oh! l am so so." "Indeed," said the doctor, "I did not know you were very sick." " Nor am I," I replied with some spirit. "Ah," says he, "is not the Latin of so so, ''sic sic''."
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[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MAOtherBrothersG#GREENLEAF.2C_SIMON_1783-1853 Simon Greenleaf], then Royal Professor of Law at Harvard University, and one of our most eminent jurists, was an intimate friend of Dr. Orr's, but had not seen him for some time, and when he called, the doctor, in his facetious way, looked steadily at him, professing not to recognize him. "Do you not know me?" said Mr. Greenleaf. "Why, I think I have seen you before, are you not that ''pettifogging lawyer'', Simon Greenleaf?" The Royal Professor, never ''forgot'' this — but frequently repeated it, with much hilarity.
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Once, on introducing an unmarried daughter by her Christian name alone, being imperfectly heard, he was asked in a low voice, "What is her husband's name?" "Sir," replied our friend, "she never was so ''unfortunate'' as to have one." But only a ''faint'' impression of his ready wit, can be conveyed by these imperfect reminiscences; time would fail me to tell of more.
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Of Doctor Orr's religious opinions, that pre-eminently important point, he might probably say, as said a preacher, no less distinguished for practical beneficence and virtue, than for talent and wisdom—in reply to one of an opposite belief, who impertinently asked him, "Do you think sir, you have any religion?" "None sir, to speak of," was the answer. His writings (to which I have had access since his decease) evince an unusual interest in sacred things, and his life of faithful duty, both in public and private, his frequent perusal and intimate knowledge of the scriptures — the practice and submission with which he bore a protracted and extremely painful illness, all clearly evince that lie not only possessed a genuine faith, but that it sustained and comforted him to the last. All cant and superstition, and ostentation of goodness, his penetrating mind naturally rejected and despised. His own words are, "Since the Christian religion has been embraced by mankind, the number is comparatively small, who have the effrontery and folly openly to confess and declare themselves Atheists, and to deny the existence of a deity and a future state. The gospel has taught us to expect another state, after this life, and by it, is the soul's immortality brought to light." He was a punctual attendant at church when in his prime, and his engagements permitted. The late talented and lamented Dr. Flint, of Salem, was for many years his pastor, and attached and intimate friend, and expressed a deep regret at losing his society when he removed from East Bridgewater to Salem.  His acquaintance with clergymen was extensive ; indeed his society afforded pleasure to all, who could appreciate it.
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Dr. Orr, as he advanced in life, gradually relinquished his most arduous and
 onerous duties to his son, Samuel Angier Orr, M. D., who is now in the discharge of a practice so full, as at times to be almost oppressive and burdensome.
 As a skilful physician, an accomplished scholar, a devoted citizen, an able writer,
an agreeable and instructive companion, the community and State have lost in
 Dr. Hector Orr what no one individual can readily supply.
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From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XV, No. 5, March 1856, Page 143:

MEMOIR OF BROTHER HECTOR ORR, M.D., Prepared by a Committee of Fellowship Lodge, Bridgewater, and ordered to be entered on the records of said Lodge, and published in this Magazine.

The subject of this Memoir, was born in Bridgewater, Mass., the 24th of March, 1770. He was a son of Col. Robert Orr, who resided several years in Springfield, Mass., was Master Armorer in the United States Arsenal, and died in that place in 1811, aged sixty-five years. He was a son of Hon. Hugh Orr, who came from Scotland, and settled in Bridgewater in 1740, and married Mary, daughter of Capt. Jonathan Bass, by whom he had several children, of whom Robert was the oldest. He died in 1798, aged eighty-two years.

Dr. Hector Orr pursued his preparatory studies for the University, under the direction of Hon. Beza Hayward, and Rev. John Reed, D. D. He passed the usual course at Cambridge College, and graduated with honor in 1792. He studied medicine under the direction of Dr. Ephraim Wales, of Randolph, and settled in his native town in 1794 — was married to Mary, daughter of Oaks Angier, Esq., in 1795, by whom he had five children.

For further particulars, in relation to his medical, political and general character, the reader is referred to the subjoined memoir, kindly furnished and prepared to our hand at the instance of his family, by Rev. Mr. Williams.

HIS MASONIC RELATIONS.

R. W. Br. Orr was made a Mason while an under-graduate of Harvard Univer
sity, in 1791, in King Solomon's Lodge in Charlestown, shortly after he attained his twenty-first year. We know but little of his Masonic history, for the next five years, other than his assiduity in informing himself in the principles and practice of the ancient craft.

In 1796 or 1797, he headed a petition to the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, for a Charter, to constitute him, with his associates, a regular Lodge; the prayer was granted, and the charter bears date the 15th of June, 1797. Of the Brethren named in the charter, Brother Orr stands first; and he outlived not only all those named in the charter, but all who belonged to the Lodge at the time of its installation; which took place on the 18th day of October, 1797, and by the name of Fellowship Lodge. Brother Orr was installed its first Master, in ample form. A sermon was delivered on the occasion, by Rev. Brother T. M. Harris; followed by an address from W. Brother Orr, both of which were printed. Shortly after this, Col. Robert Orr petitioned the Lodge for the honors of Masonry; and being accepted, our W. Brother had the honor and satisfaction of making his father a Brother Mason. Brother Orr presided over the Lodge till 1799, when he was appointed by President Adams, a surgeon in the Navy, which office he held about three years.

On his return home, he was re-elected, and presided over the Lodge most of the time, till 1811. In 1818, he was appointed D.D.G.M. He continued to visit the Lodge when his convenience permitted, and took a lively interest in the prosperity of the craft, until the close of his life; which event occurred April 29th, 1855, aged 85 years.

He never lost his confidence in the perpetuity of the Institution, even in the darkest period of its history. W. Brother Orr presided over the Lodge with great dignity and affability, and such was his familiarity with the theory and practice of Masonry, that all were delighted to see him in the Chair; no one wished to occupy it in his presence, for he was the man whom all delighted to honor.

In addition to a pleasing address, he seemed to have an intuitive perception of the feelings and general character of those with whom he conversed, and his power of adapting himself to the various characters of mankind, was truly remarkable ; and yet, he has been known at times, to approach a neighbor with a sort of bluntness approaching to rudeness, which would sometimes wake up Madam Resentment; but before she could rally her forces for a combat, he would give such a turn to his salutation, that she would find herself disarmed, and so retire abashed, while the doctor would have gained his object, (viz. the development of some hidden qualify in his neighbor's temperament,) unperceived by the subject, and, without any apology, converse and part with more kindly feelings than before the interview.

That Brother Orr, by a strict conformity to its principles and precepts, conferred honor upon the craft, we are proud to acknowledge — while at the same time we consider him as indebted to Masonry, for many of the noble and excellent qualities which adorned his life. Brother Orr was made a Mason in the year of his majority, and about a year before he graduated. At that time be was of an ardent and reckless temperament, and not much under the restraints of religion. Here then, just before he slipped from the leading strings of the University, Masonry took him by the hand, pressed him to her bosom, and pledged him most solemnly, and affectionately, to listen to her instructions, and to walk in her ways. Having a retentive memory, he soon made himself master of its theory and practice; and thus being qualified fur a teacher, he was employed to teach and instruct others; and the principles and studies which he endeavored to enforce upon them, had a salutary influence upon his own heart and life. He has been observed, by those who were not Masons, in cases of emergency, to fall back upon his Masonic principles; as for instance: When one told him that Mr. --- had been speaking evil of him, he would say, "O ! he did not mean to harm me, he has probably been misinformed as to the facts; any-how, Masonry charges us to put the most favorable construction upon the words and actions of mankind." Again, when injured and abused by a neighbor, and a few days after, when that neighbor was taken ill, and sent for him, one who happened to he present, said, "Why, doctor, you don't think of going to see that man?" "Certainly I do. Masonry does not allow us to render evil for evil, but we must overcome evil with good."

John Edson, Jonathan Ames, Isaac Howard, Jarvis D. Burrell, 
Dec. 17th, 1855, Committee.

HIS PROFESSIONAL AND PRIVATE LIFE, by REV. MR. WILLIAMS.

Dr. Orr received the commission of surgeon in the Navy in 1796, from John Adams, President of the United States. In 1802 he was appointed Adjutant, and resigned in 1825. He was elected Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1801, and served as counsellor of this society nearly forty years. He received from his alma mater the honorary degree of doctor in medicine in 1818. He held various offices of trust in his birth-place — was its Representative and a Justice of the Peace — 1817 he read the annual dissertation before the Medical Society, "On the Properties of Animal and Vegetable_Life." His pen was seldom idle, as his manuscripts both in prose and verse, clearly prove, and his thoughts took a wide scope and embraced a variety of subjects, all evencing a strong, original, classical and highly cultivated mind; 1795, he married Mary, daughter of Hon. Oakes Angier, a counsellor at law, of great eminence, and extensive popularity. A venerable divine, in speaking of him, called him "the Webster of his day," and remarked, that he was a student at law of John Adams, President of the United States, and had as a student, among many other eminent men, the late lamented Judge Davis, of Boston. (Dr. Orr lost by death his amiable and intelligent lady in 1853.) From 1795 to 1850, he continued to a greateror less extent in professional and honorable practice, both as surgeon arid physician. He was ever prompt to the call of duty, and eminently successful and quick and acute in his perception of cases. In a poem written in his 80th year, he speaks of his naval voyage under Commodore Preble —

Far distant India's seas and coast,
And Afric's rocky boisterous shore,
In naval service (not to boast,)
Fatigued I've cruised; its dangers bore.

Iu the same poem he thus feelingly and with a graphic pen, describes his excursions and exposures as a physician. They will find a ready response in the heart of every son of Æsculapius.

I've gone at darkest hours of night
When winter's drilling snows were deep;
When moon and stars withheld their light,
And boisterous winds awoke from sleep.

Nerved to the task, I've stemmed the storms,
Through fields and bogs and forests drear;
Through tangled vines and prickly thorns,
Without a friend my heart to cheer.

Not scorching summer's fervid heat,
Nor tempest black, nor drenching rain,
The ardor of my heart defeat;
Nor duty's needful toils restrain.

Of hardships I have had my share,
And perils both by sea and land
Inhaled the pestilential air,
And felt contagion's withering hand.

Of life I've seen its "ups and downs";
Enjoy'd its smiles and fell its pains;
Embraced its gifts and met its frowns,
Its ebbing current in my veins.

With weakened limbs and anxious breast,
Close on life's slippery brink I tread <br Mourn for companions now at rest,
And friends commingled with the dead.

Long since from public life retired,
Professions, cares, almost resigned;
Elate with buoyant hopes inspired,
Some peace, and rest, I yet may find.

If still continued days remain,
For me kind Heaven has reserved,
Of pain and woes I'll not complain,
Confess its blessings, undeserved.

Dr. Orr was beloved in domestic life — faithfully discharged its duties, and was keenly alive to every tender sympathy and generous affection. He loved his country, and repeatedly delivered public addresses, calculated to sustain and add honor to its patriotic and valuable institutions. He devoted much time to public objects and was ready to bear his proportion of all public burdens.

Dr. Orr's reading was extensive and varied, and his memory remarkably and correctly retentive. His mind was richly embued with the literature of the old English School and Latin classics. Milton, Young and Burns, Horace, Virgil and Juvenal, were familiar to him as household words, and his quotations from them, were habitual. Few men ever collected from books and life so large a body of pertinent anecdotes, or related them with greater zest and effect. His penetration could detect the gold, in its ore, and discover mines, where less perceptive minds saw only a desert. Lord Bacon's aphorism, that " Reading makes a full man, writing a correct, and conversation a ready man," was well exemplified in him. He was always full, correct, and ready. A vein of humour, a brilliant wit, and vivacity, enlivened his conversation and seasoned it as with Attic salt, almost to the last, for at the advanced age of 85 his intellectual powers were bright, firm and unshaken.

His remarks were pleasant and facetious and his circle of intimate friends will long recollect his scintillations of flashing wit as well as the circumstances which gave them pungency and point. But related now, without the auxiliaries of time and place, they must in some degree fail of effect. For true wit, like the foaming champagne, must be imbibed with the first sparkle, or it becomes vapid and tasteless. I will, notwithstanding, venture to relate some few instances of his readiness, that occur to my mind. Conversing with him once on the subject of diet and the food of different nations —he suddenly inquired if I knew what Queen Dido ate (Dido, the heroine of Virgil's Æneid.) I allowed my total ignorance on this important topic. "Why," said the Dr., "you are strangely forgetful of Virgil, for he says in so many words, Dido et dux." (The literal translation is, Dido and the leader; Latin, Dido et dux.) Again, on his inquiring after my health — I replied, in a manner unusual with me, and by no means elegantly, " Oh! l am so so." "Indeed," said the doctor, "I did not know you were very sick." " Nor am I," I replied with some spirit. "Ah," says he, "is not the Latin of so so, sic sic."

Simon Greenleaf, then Royal Professor of Law at Harvard University, and one of our most eminent jurists, was an intimate friend of Dr. Orr's, but had not seen him for some time, and when he called, the doctor, in his facetious way, looked steadily at him, professing not to recognize him. "Do you not know me?" said Mr. Greenleaf. "Why, I think I have seen you before, are you not that pettifogging lawyer, Simon Greenleaf?" The Royal Professor, never forgot this — but frequently repeated it, with much hilarity.

Once, on introducing an unmarried daughter by her Christian name alone, being imperfectly heard, he was asked in a low voice, "What is her husband's name?" "Sir," replied our friend, "she never was so unfortunate as to have one." But only a faint impression of his ready wit, can be conveyed by these imperfect reminiscences; time would fail me to tell of more.

Of Doctor Orr's religious opinions, that pre-eminently important point, he might probably say, as said a preacher, no less distinguished for practical beneficence and virtue, than for talent and wisdom—in reply to one of an opposite belief, who impertinently asked him, "Do you think sir, you have any religion?" "None sir, to speak of," was the answer. His writings (to which I have had access since his decease) evince an unusual interest in sacred things, and his life of faithful duty, both in public and private, his frequent perusal and intimate knowledge of the scriptures — the practice and submission with which he bore a protracted and extremely painful illness, all clearly evince that lie not only possessed a genuine faith, but that it sustained and comforted him to the last. All cant and superstition, and ostentation of goodness, his penetrating mind naturally rejected and despised. His own words are, "Since the Christian religion has been embraced by mankind, the number is comparatively small, who have the effrontery and folly openly to confess and declare themselves Atheists, and to deny the existence of a deity and a future state. The gospel has taught us to expect another state, after this life, and by it, is the soul's immortality brought to light." He was a punctual attendant at church when in his prime, and his engagements permitted. The late talented and lamented Dr. Flint, of Salem, was for many years his pastor, and attached and intimate friend, and expressed a deep regret at losing his society when he removed from East Bridgewater to Salem. His acquaintance with clergymen was extensive ; indeed his society afforded pleasure to all, who could appreciate it.

Dr. Orr, as he advanced in life, gradually relinquished his most arduous and
 onerous duties to his son, Samuel Angier Orr, M. D., who is now in the discharge of a practice so full, as at times to be almost oppressive and burdensome.
 As a skilful physician, an accomplished scholar, a devoted citizen, an able writer,
an agreeable and instructive companion, the community and State have lost in
 Dr. Hector Orr what no one individual can readily supply.

W---s.

OSGOOD, STEPHEN 1826-1911

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From Proceedings, Page 1911-115:

"STEPHEN OSGOOD, of Georgetown, was born in Salisbury, Mass.. Nov. 16, 1826, and died at his residence in Georgetown Aug. 11, 1911. At a very early age he shipped on a coastwise vessel and followed the sea for several years. In 1849 he made the journey to the gold fields of California, but soon returned, and was apprenticed to Samuel Plummer, of whom he learned the tailor's trade, which he followed for many years with great success.

"He was prominent in every department of local politics, having served as Selectman, Assessor and Overseer of the Poor of the town of Georgetown. He was for seven years a trustee of the Peabody Library a trustee of the Georgetown Savings Bank and a director and vice-president of the Georgetown National Bank. In 1871 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, and was a member of the Senate in 1879 and 1880. He was Postmaster in Georgetown from 1900 to 1904. Probably no citizen of Georgetown was more interested and active than Brother Osgood in all that went to make up the social, political and business life of the town. His wit was proverbial and he was a vocalist and musician of wide reputation.

"How passing beautiful that sleep
That gently falls upon the silvered brow of years,
And shuts the weary eyelids filled with tears,
And opens them no more to weep."

"Brother Osgood received the Masonic degrees in Merrimack Lodge, Haverhill, in 1863 became a member in 1866 and demitted Dec. 18, 1867, to organize and become the Master of Charles C. Dame Lodge, of Georgetown under Dispensation, April 5, 1868. He served as Master of said Lodge in 1868 and 1869. He was District Deputy Grand Master of the Sixth Masonic District in 1881 and 1882.

"Brother Osgood received the Capitular degrees in Pentucket R.A. Chapter in 1865 ; the Cryptic degrees in Haverhill Council in 1867, and the orders of Knighthood in Haverhill Cornmandery, K.T., in 1866.

"Brother Osgood's wife passed away several years ago, but he is survived by three sons, Louis K., Stephen and Charles C., the latter being a Past Master of Charles C. Dame Lodge and a Past Commander of Haverhill Commandery, and one daughter, Mrs. Charlotte O. Haskell, who for many years has presided over the home at Georgetown, where her constant devotion and faithful service made calm and comfortable the declining years of her aged parent.

"Brother Osgood's remains were buried in Harrnony Cemetery, Georgetown, Masonic services being held by Charles C. Dame Lodge."


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