Van Dusen, Harmon
Death
1885-07-18
(aged 82 years)
Min Pt Township, Wisconsin
Birth
1803-07-23
Gravestone
Location
SC.39.1
Transcription
Harmon Van Dusen
Obituary
Died. Van Dusen. In this city, early last Saturday morning, July 18th, 1885, Dr. Harmon Van Dusen; aged about 82 years.
The frequency with which we are called upon to record the deaths of our aged citizens is indeed an unpleasant duty. The men who in early days stood prominently before the community will soon be gone. Dr. Van Dusen came to Mineral Point is 1848, from Tully, New York, and for over 35 years attended to the duties of his profession in this city and vicinity. He was an able practitioner, and faithful to his patients, and lost none of his keenness of medical intuition, with advancing years, until the terrible paralysis, from which he has been so great a sufferer, made its power manifest, during the last two months. The Doctor did not die RICH - not because he had not had practice enough, nor because he was a spendthrift, but because the average moral sense of so many people does not reach to the doctor's bill; it, like the printer's, can go over. He was one of the organizers of the State Medical Association, and was greatly honored by the leading men of his profession throughout the state. At home he took much interest in educational matters, and was for many years president of the board of education. He was also an enthusiastic Free Mason. A special train brought several leading physicians from Milwaukee to attend his funeral.