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Title: "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts.
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Copeland, Alfred Minott, 1830- ed
Subjects: Hampden County (Mass.) -- History Hampden County (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: Boston : Century Memorial Pub. Co
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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ays open to the call of all competitors. All of thiswas fully illustrated by a remarkable tribute paid to him inOctober, 1887, by the Connecticut Valley Dental society, ofwhich he was the principal founder and its first president, in thecelebration of the 50th anniversary of his professional life. Thiswas the judgment day for Dr. Searle, and his professionalassociates, from all over the land, constituted the court of justice,either by personal presence or personal letters. And this is notall: the mayor of the city, representatives of medical, legal, cler-ical and other professions, came to do him honor. In fact, hewas overwhelmed with expressions of esteem, love and congratu-lation. On the 10th of February, 1889—seventeen months fromthis happy event—Dr. Searle died. On the occasion of hisfuneral a special meeting of the Connecticut Valley Dental so-ciety Avas called, and in a body the members followed his remainsto the grave. On this occasion a notable memorial address was ( 396 )
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Flavins Searle, D. D. S. 01R COL MY AXD ITS PEOPLE given by (Jeorge S. )Meri-iain, a neighbor and one of the foremostmen of the city. Dr. Searle was the inventor of various methods and appli-ances, but gave everything he devised as contributions to the ad-vancement of his profession. For several years he made all hisown instruments, and in 1858, being in need of an operatingchair, he made one for himself. Of this chair he said : Iused to go to church and try to be good, but that chair would gowith me, and be working its parts together before the whole con-gregation. Dr. Searle was a constant student in everythingthat related to his profession, but more than this, he was alive toall matters of intellectual and scientific concern, a man ofdeep insight and accurate judgment, always in search of thenewest and most advanced aspects of truth in whatever realm.It appears that one Van Horn, a cabinet-maker of West Spring-field, made several of the Searle dental chairs and put them onthe marke

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