Dr. Walter Gay Stebbins

1865 - 1893  (28 years)

• Name	Walter Gay Stebbins
  Title	Dr.
  Birth	4 Jun 1865	Springfield, Hampden, MA
  Gender	Male
  Census	23 Jun 1870	Springfield, Hampden, MA
  	age 5, born MA, living with parents
  Census	5 Jun 1880	Springfield, Hampden, MA
  	age 15, born MA, at school, living with parents
  Death	7 Oct 1893	Springfield, Hampden, MA
  Burial	Pine Grove Cemetery, Hinsdale, NH
  Person ID	I1537	Family Tree
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	John Mills Stebbins,   b. 27 Dec 1825, Hinsdale, Cheshire, NH d. 11 Feb 1888, Springfield, Hampden, MA (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Harriet Cornelia Haile,   b. 22 Jun 1829, Chesterfield, Cheshire, NH d. 14 Mar 1906, Springfield, Hampden, MA (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	23 Nov 1853	Hinsdale, NH
  Family ID	F349	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Headstones

  Walter Gay Stebbins Gravestone Dr. WALTER GAY STEBBINS / JUN 4, 1865 / OCTOBER 8, 1893 Plot: behind Haile stone

  
  

• Notes

  from "Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915" Walter G Stebbins, age 28, a physician, born Springfield MA to John M Stebbins b. Hinsdale NH & Harriet C Haile b. Hinsdale, died on 7 Oct 1893 in Springfield from dyphtheria. From "Obituary record of graduates of Yale University, deceased from June 1890 to June 1900" Walter Gay Stebbins, son of the Hon. John M. Stebbins (Dartmouth Coll. 1848) and Harriet C. (Haile) Stebbins, was born in Springfield, Mass., on June 4, 1865. For a year after graduation he studied law with his father, and the next year he spent also in Springfield, engaged partly in real-estate business. In September, 1888, he entered the Harvard Medical School, in Boston, and in 1892 he received the degrees of A.M. and M.D., cum laude. He served as surgical house officer from July, 1891, to January, 1893, at the Boston City Hospital, and in his work there showed a good surgical judgment and scrupulous attention to the comfort of his patients. After this he was house-officer at the Boston Lying-In Hospital from March to September, 1893. After a brief vacation he returned to the City Hospital on September 26, as a substitute for an absent officer for a few weeks, at the expiration of which time he expected to sail for Europe. Almost immediately after his arrival at the hospital he contracted diphtheria from a patient, from which he died there on October 8, in his 29th year. His industry and interest in his profession were full of unusual promise.