Augustus Hannibal Burbank (January 24, 1823 – June 27, 1895) was a 19th-century American

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

. He was also treasurer of Yarmouth Aqueduct Company and an early president of

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Early life

Burbank was born in

Poland, Maine Poland is a town in Androscoggin County, Maine, United States. The population was 5,906 at the 2020 census. Set among rolling hills and numerous lakes, the town is home to Range Ponds State Park, which includes hiking trails and a pristine fres ...

, on January 24, 1823, the only son of physician Eleazer Burbank and Sophronia Ricker.''Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History'',

William Hutchinson Rowe William Hutchinson Rowe (March 6, 1882''Maine Biographies'', Harrie B. Coe (before 1937), p. 135 – 1955) was an American author and historian who lived in Yarmouth, Maine. The town's elementary school, built the year he died, is now named for ...

(1937)''Obituary Record of the Graduates of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine'',

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(1899), p. 310 He graduated from

in 1843 and studied medicine at

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, receiving his MD in 1847.''Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin'', Volumes 1-6 (1905), p. 330

Career

Upon graduating, Burbank returned to

Yarmouth, Maine Yarmouth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, twelve miles north of the state's largest city, Portland. When originally settled in 1636, as North Yarmouth, it was part of Massachusetts, and remained as such for 213 years. In 1849, ...

, and entered general practice. He was an early president of

while Charles Chesley Springer was its principal. The two became close friends, which resulted in their families sharing the same burial plot. He was also a treasurer of Yarmouth Aqueduct Company.

Personal life

On 25 November 1851, Burbank married Elizabeth Richardson Banks. They had two children: Annie (1852–1901) and Elizabeth (born 1873), who died in infancy. The maternal Elizabeth died in 1869, aged about 45. On 16 December 1871, Burbank married Alice Noyes Thompson, with whom he had three children: Hugh Eleazer, Marjorie and Maurice Augustus. He was a member of Yarmouth's First Parish Congregational Church and, professionally, the Maine Medical Association.

Death

Burbank died of

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on June 27, 1895, aged 72. Three years later, Alice remarried, to Charles Torrey. He died in 1918 while they were living in

Plymouth, Massachusetts Plymouth (; historically known as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. Located in Greater Boston, the town holds a place of great prominence in American history, folklore, and culture, and is known as ...

, after which Alice returned to Yarmouth, where she died in 1938, aged about 90. Burbank, his two wives and three of his children are interred in the same plot in Yarmouth's Riverside Cemetery, a plot also shared with the family of Charles Chesley Springer. Maurice had moved to

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, where he died in 1969, aged 89. He was buried in the city's Mountain View Cemetery.Maurice Augustus Burbank
– Registration of Death,

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References

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