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- From The Escanaba Daily Press 31 May 31 1944
DR. HARRY W. LONG, 65, DIES OF HEART DISEASE
Dr. Harry W. Long, pioneer Escanaba physician and surgeon, who for the past ten years had specialized in the diseases of eyes, ears, nose, and throat, passed away yesterday afternoon at his home 508 South Seventh street, after a brief critical illness. Dr. Long had suffered from an affection of the heart for the past four years and had endured several seizures from that cause but it was only during the past four weeks that his condition became critical. At 12:20 o?clock he passed peacefully away, surrounded by members of his family. Because of his long establishment in the practice of general medicine and surgery in this city and the prominence he gained in more recent years as a specialist, Dr. Long was probably one of the best known members of the medical profession in this section of the peninsula. A host of people who had known him through the years, both as their doctor and their fried will sincerely grieve at the passing of one who had been a part of the community life of this city for nearly a half century.
Funeral Services Friday
The body has been removed to the Anderson funeral home, from which place funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o?clock on Friday afternoon. Dr. Harry Wadsworth Long was born at Fredrickton, New Brunswick, July 29, 1878. When a boy of 9 years he moved with his parents to Menominee where he attend the public schools until the death of his father, when he came to make his home with his brother, the late Dr. C. H. Long. He was graduated from Escanaba high school with the class of 1895. Before and after school and in vacation periods he worked at the drug store of the late Albert Ellsworth and thus attained a desire to enter the medical profession. He attended the University of Michigan for one year and completed his medical education at Northwestern university, graduating with the class of 1900.
Founded Cottage Hospital
He immediately returned to Escanaba and entered the general practice of medicine and surgery with his brother. In 1905 DR. C. H. Long moved to Chicago, allowing his brother to assume chare of the firm?s extensive practice here. Because of the crowded conditions at the old Delta county hospital, now St. Francis, Dr. Long organized the Cottage hospital and conducted that institution for several years. Desiring to follow the footsteps of his older brother, Dr. Long went to Austria in 1914, to pursue a course in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat under the eminent specialists in that country. He was in Austria when World War I broke out and saw the funeral of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination formed the basis of that conflict.
Served in War
He experienced great difficulty in escaping from Europe, but finally returned here and was preparing to engage in practice as a specialist when America entered the war. He volunteered for service and was commissioned as a captain in the Army Medical Corps. He took his military training at Camp Oglethorpe, Chattanooga, Tenn., and was pursuing a special course at Harvard university, Boston, when a devastating flue epidemic swept the military forces and the nation. He was sent to Camp Devers, Mass., and served rotation at Camp Upton, Camp Greene, and Camp Grant, finally receiving his discharge from military service at Camp Custer, June 30, 1919. In order to refit himself for the division of medicine and surgery in which he desired to specialize he took a post-graduate course at Rush Medical college and opened his office at Gary, Ind., in the late fall of 1919. He returned to Escanaba in 1934 and had since been engaged in the practice of his profession, in the city where first hung out his shingle in 1900.
In addition to his wife and one son, Marshall Long, of Gary, Ind., Dr. Long is survived by two grandsons, David and Leslie Long of Gary, together with one brother Dr. Frank T. Long of Gladstone, and one sister, Mrs. Louise Hamill, of Gary.
Dr. Long was a charter member of the Gary Lodge, A. F. & A.M. and a member of the Shrine and the Consistory at Marquette. He was also a member of Escanaba lodge of Elks and past president of the Delta County Medical society.
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1878 - 1944 (65 years)
