Victor Spencer Huggins MD (1906 - 1982)

Born 22 Nov 1906 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Katherine Chamberlayne (Harvie) Huggins MD — married 1 Feb 1938 in Richmond, Virginia, United States

Died 24 Sep 1982 at age 75 in Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States

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Biography

Victor Huggins MD migrated from Canada to USA.

Victor Spencer Huggins was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1906. He was the son of Charles Edward Huggins and Bessie Spencer.^[1]

Victor's father died in his forty-fifth year in 1912, having caught scarlet fever after nursing his young sons through the same malaise.^[2] His mother remarried in 1916, but succumbed to encephalitis in 1919, aged forty-three years.^[3]

Victor, who was twelve years old, and his older brother, Charles, went to Parrsboro to live with their maternal aunt, Emily Cook.^[4]

After completing his medical training at Harvard, followed by internships at the universities of Michigan and Cincinnati, Dr. Huggins entered into private practice in Evansville, Indiana.^[5]

On the 1st February 1938, he married Katherine Chamberlayne Harvie, M.D., in Richmond, Virginia.^[6][7] The marriage was noticed in The Ottawa Journal (Ottawa, Ontario):

HARVIE-HUGGINS—Of interest in Ottawa was the wedding in Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Richmond, Va., on Saturday afternoon of Dr. Katherine Chamberlayne Harvie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Beverly Harvie, of Richmond, to Dr. Victor Spencer Huggins, of Evansville, Ind., son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edward Huggins, of Halifax, and cousin of Mr. Hugh Huggins, of Ottawa, organist of All Saints' Church.^[8]

Victor's wife, Katherine, died in Evansville, Indiana on the 8th February 1977, aged sixty-seven. Her body was interred in Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery.^[9]

He remarried to Grace Elizabeth Eisterhold, née Helfrich, widow of Dr. John Eisterhold, on the 17th July 1978.^[10]

Victor Spencer Huggins, M.D., died in Evansville on the 24th September 1982, aged seventy-five years.^[11] His body was buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery.^[12]

Career notes

• B.A., Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia^[13]
• M.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1933)^[14]
• Interned at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor (1934–35).^[15]
• Appointed by the College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, as a resident in obstetrics in the General Hospital (1941)^[16]
• President, District Medical Society, Evansville, Indiana, The Indiana State Medical Association, 1951-53^[5]

Census enumerations

1911 Census (Canada)

• Charles Huggins, male, head, married, born in December 1868, age 42, born in Nova Scotia, race: Scotch, Canadian, Presbyterian, Druggist (22 years, on own account), life insurance $3000, reads and writes, speaks English
• Bessie, female, wife, married, born in July 1881, age 30, born in Nova Scotia, race: English, Canadian, Baptist, reads and writes, speaks English
• Brenton, male, son, single, born in Septmember 1901, age 9, born in Nova Scotia, race: Scotch, Canadian, Baptist
• Victor, male, son, single, born in November 1908, age 4, born in Nova Scotia, race; Scotch, Canadian, Baptist
• census place: 5 Brenton Place, Halifax, Nova Scotia^[17]

1921 Census

• Clinton Cook, head, male, white, married, age 66, born in New Brunswick, both parents born in New Brunswick, nationality: Canada
• Emily Cook, wife, female, married, age 50, born in Nova Scotia, father born in Nova Scotia, mother born in USA, nationality: Canadian
• Victor Huggins, nephew, male, single, age 14, born in Nova Scotia, both parents born in Nova Scotia, nationality: Canada, speaks English, reads and writes, Baptist, Student
• Olive Wickwire, boarder, female, ...
• Carol D[-]nock, boarder, male, ...
• Charles Huggins, boarder, male, single, age 19, born in Nova Scotia, both parents born in Nova Scotia, nationality: Canada, speaks English, reads and writes, Baptist, Student
• Doris Starrett, lodger, ...
• Daniel Beaton, boarder, ...
• Victor Durric, boarder, ...
• census place: Church Street, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia^[4]

1930 Census (USA)

When the U.S. 1930 census was enumerated, Victor and his aunt Emily were living in Boston:

• Emily Cook, head, rents home at $50/month, owns a radio, female, white, age 55, widow, reads and writes, born in Canada-English, father born in Canada-English, mother born in Mainland[?], mother tongue: English, immigrated to the U.S. in 1929, alien, speaks English, no occupatioin
• Victor Huggins, nephew, male, white, age 23, single, born in Canada-English, father born in England [sic], mother born in Canada-English, mother tongue: English, immigrated to the U.S. in 1927, no occupation
• census place: 64 Autumn Street, Boston, Massachusetts^[18]

1940 Census

• Victor Huggins, head, male, white, age 33, married, completed 8 years in college, born in Canada-English; resident of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, on April 1, 1935; Physician, private practice
• Catherine, wife, female, white, age 30, married, completed 8 years in college, born in Virginia; resident of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, on April 1, 1935;
• Margaret, daughter, female, white, age 1, single, born in Indiana
• census place: 1608 South Linwood, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana^[19]

Sources

1. ↑ Province of Nova Scotia (Canada). Application for Registration of a Birth. Under the Vital Statistics Act, Chap. 20, R.S. 1923. Abstract: Victor Spencer Huggins, male, born 22nd November 1906 at Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia; father: Charles Edward Huggins, maiden name of mother: Bessie Spencer; residence of father when child was born: no. 1 Poplar Grove, Halifax; present occupation of father: deceased, occupation of father at birth of child: Druggist, place of birth of father: Nova Scotia, race: English; name and present address of physician in attendance at birth: Dr. Shepp[ard?] of Halifax, N.S.; name of applicant: Victor S. Huggins; address: U. of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan; date: June 22nd, 1935. Affidavit signed by Emily Spencer Cook of Parrsboro, Cumberland County, “being sister of the mother of the said Victor Spencer Huggins and personal knowledge of the facts;” declared at Parrsboro, 29th June 1935. Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, ref. book 1906, pg. 71500456. Digital image online at novascotiagenealogy.com (accessed and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2008-08-30).
2. ↑ The Gazette (Montréal), 15 April 1912 (pg. 8). Death notice for Charles E. Huggins, pharmacist, Halifax, brother to William H. Huggins of Ottawa. Digital image online at newspapers.com (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2019-06-21).
3. ↑ Province of Nova Scotia (Canada). Civil Registration of a Death. Bessie Trefry otherwise Huggins née Spencer, died 9 August 1919, aged 47 years [sic], residence: 5 Brenton Place, Halifax; housewife, married, husband: Albert N Trefry; born in Parrsboro, N.S.; cause of death: encephalitis, paralysis of respiratory centre, 1 week; Baptist, white; physician in attendance: C.S. Morton, M.D.; undertaker: Snow & Co Ltd; buried in Camp Hill cemetery; registered 9 August 1919. Original record held by Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management. Archival ref. book 24, pg 162, no. 972. Digital image online at novascotiagenealogy.com (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2008-08-30).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Canada 1921 Census. Clinton Cook, age 66, with wife, Emily (50), and Emily Cook’s nephews: Victor Huggins (14) and Charles Huggins (19); in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. Original record held by Library and Archives Canada, Sixth Census of Canada, 1921 (Ottawa); series RG31, Statistics Canada fonds. Archival ref. district no. 55, enumeration district no. 34, pg. 14. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2017-08-22).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} The Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association. Vol. 46, No. 1 (Jan. 1953). Indianapolis, Indiana: The Indiana State Medical Association, 1953.
6. ↑ The Halifax Mail (Nova Scotia), 1 February 1938. “Native Nova Scotian Weds,” re: marriage of Victor Spencer Huggins and Katherine Chamberlayne Harvie. Transcribed by George Newbury and posted to the Nova-Scotia-L mailing list 2005-04-22 (accessed 2008-08-30).
7. ↑ New York Times, 30 January 1938. “Katherine Harvie, Physician, a Bride: Member of Noted Families in Virginia Wed to Dr. Victor S. Huggins in Richmond.” Online at www.nytimes.com (accessed 2008-08-28).
8. ↑ The Ottawa Journal, 2 February 1938 (pg. 8). “HARVIE-HUGGINS.” Citing the marriage of Dr. Katherine Chamberlayne Harvie and Dr. Victor Spencer Huggins, cousin of Hugh Huggins of Ottawa. Online at www.newspapers.com (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2017-08-23).
9. ↑ Evansville Courier & Press, 8 February 1977. Obituary for Dr. Katherine Harvie Huggins of Evansville, Illinois. Copy per the Browning Genealogical Collection, Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2008-08-30).
10. ↑ State of Indiana (USA). Marriage Certificates, 1917–2005. Record of Marriage, Vanderburgh County, no. 78-034900. Victor Spencer Huggins of 4306 N. Fourth Avenue, Evansville, age 71, born at Halifax, N.S., Canada; last marriage ended by death. Grace Elizabeth Eisterhold of 6513 Echo Hill Dr., Evansville, age 62, born in Indiana, last marriage ended by death. Marriage solemnized by the Rev. Raymond Kuper, R.C. Priest, 3109 Bayard Pk. Dr., Evansville, 476-3061, 17 July 1978. (signed) Shirley Jean Cox, Clerk of Vand. [Vanderburgh] Circuit Court, 19 July 1978, book no. 212, pg. 500. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2017-08-23).
11. ↑ U.S. Social Security Death Index. Victor Spencer Huggins, born 22 November 1906, died in September 1982, SSN 306-48-5136; last residence: Evansville, Vanderburgh [County], Indiana 47712. Original record: Social Security Administration (USA). Index online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2008-08-30).
12. ↑ Find-a-Grave Memorial no. 119504989. Dr Victor Spencer Huggins, born 22 November 1906 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 24 September 1982 at Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA; husband of (i) Katherine Harvie Huggins (1909–1977) and (ii) Grace Elizabeth Helfrich Huggins (1916–2002); buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens cemetery, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. Inscription: “Victor S. Huggins / 1906 [cross] 1982.” Memorial created by “Linda Y.,” 29 October 2013; photograph of gravestone by Bill Schraeder. Online at www.findagrave.com (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2017-08-23).
13. ↑ Acadia University (Wolfville, Nova Scotia). Acadia Scholar. (undated.) Citing Mr. Victor S. Huggins, interne, department of surgery, University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Online at scholar.acadiau.ca (accessed 2019-06-22).
14. ↑ The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts), 22 June 1933 (pg. 11). “List of Degrees Awarded at Harvard Today.” Extract: “MD … Victor S. Huggins.” Digital image online at newspapers.com (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2019-06-22).
15. ↑ University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). General Register Issue. “University Hospital.” Extract: “Victor Spencer Huggins, A.B., M.D., Rotating Interne.” (pg 63.)
16. ↑ The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio), 2 April 1941 (pg. 3). “Internship [University of Cincinnati] … Others Are Appointed. … College of Medicine … Dr. Victor S. Huggins, resident in obstetrics at General Hospital; …” Digital image online at newspapers.com (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2019-06-22).
17. ↑ Canada 1911 Census. Charles Huggins, age 42, with wife, Bessie (30), and children: Brenton (9) and Victor (4); in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Original record: Library and Archives Canada, series RG31-C-1, Statistics Canada fonds, microfilm reels T-20326 to T-20460. Archival ref. district no. 45, sub-district: section B, enumeration district: ward 2, pg. 16. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2017-08-22).
18. ↑ U.S. 1930 Census. Emily Cook, age 55, with her nephew, Victor Huggins (23); in Boston, Massachusetts. Original record: Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930 (NARA microfilm T626), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives, Washington, D.C. Archival ref. enumeration district 13-141, supervisor’s district 12, ward 4, block 8, pg. 15A, enumerated 10th April 1930. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2017-08-23).
19. ↑ U.S. 1940 Census. Victor Spencer Huggins, age 33, with wife, Catherine (30), and child, in Evansville, Indiana. Original record: USA, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. Archival ref. Pigeon township, supervisor’s district no. 8, enumeration district no. 93-14, city block no. 574, sheet 8B, enumerated 24 April 1940. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2017-08-23).

Links

• Arborealis: Biographical sketch of Victor Spencer Huggins, M.D.