Calvin Fairbanks Bonney (1817 - 1886)

Born 10 Apr 1817 in Winthrop, Kennebec Co., Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Louisa (Lane) Bonney — married 5 Jun 1844 in Hallowell, Kennebec Co., Maine

Descendants

Died 12 May 1886 at age 69 in Winthrop, Kennebec Co., Maine

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Biography

Birth:

Date: 10 Apr 1817

Place: Winthrop, Kennebec Co., Maine ^[1]

Death:

Date: 12 May 1886

Place: Winthrop, Kennebec Co., Maine^[2]

Obituary:

Dr. Calvin Fairbanks Bonney

Dr. Calvin F. Bonney died at his residence, No. 571 Chestnut street, Boston, Wednesday evening, of softening of the brain, aged 68 years, one month and three days. The deceased was the seventh of the family of 9 boys of James and Cynthia (Cole) Bonney and was born in the town of Winthrop, Me. He was apprenticed to a blacksmith, but went to Boston. He there remained three years in a drug store, and then went into a hospital in New York, then studied medicine in Plattsburg, N. Y., and finally entered the college of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y., where he graduated. He practiced in North Paris, Kezar Falls and Cornish. In May, 1872, he moved to Boston where he entered on a lucrative practice, and continued until his death. He was a member of both the Maine and New Hampshire state medical societies and the Masonic fraternity. He was voted in a member of the Amoskeag Veterans, but never paraded with that organization. He was married, and his first wife was Mary Laine of Hallowell, Me., by whom he had four children, three girls and one boy. Two girls died young and the other, Mrs. A. L. March resides at Monmouth, Me., the son Fred W., resides in Boston, after the decease of Mrs. Bonney in 1862, at Cornish, he married Miss Harriet O. Cheney, sister of Rev. Dr. Cheney president of Bates College a native of Peterboro, who survives and by whom he had one son Sherman G., a member of the graduating class of Bates college. He is also survived by two brothers, Horace of Hooksett and Hannibal of Penacook. His last illness dates from February when he received a fall on the ice while going from his house to his stable, which is supposed severed a minute blood vessel in the brain and which culminated in softening of the brain.^[3]

Sources

Source: US Census 1880

1. ↑ Birth: Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900
2. ↑ Death: Maine Deaths, 1960-1996
3. ↑ Lewiston Evening Journal - Friday, May 14, 1886 page 3