Son of Pliny and Patience (Buffum) Earle.
Physician & psychiatrist.
One of the founders of : American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association (Assoc. of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane), New England Psychological Society & NY Academy of Medicine.
First Superintendent of Northampton State Hospital (State Lunatic Hospital) July 2 1864-Oct 1 1885. He developed the surrounding land into farmland used to feed the patients and he sold the excess to support the hospital. He believed in the therapeutic effects of work so many of the patients also worked at the facility. After his retirement, he continued to live there until his death.
Dr Pliny Earle
Dr Pliny Earle, for 21 years Superintendent of the Massachusetts Hospital for the Insane in Northampton, died last night at the hospital, where his residence had been maintained since his retirement in 1885. He was in his 83d year, having been born at Leicester, Mass, December 31, 1809. He was graduated from Pennsylvania University; spent several years abroad, paying special attention to the treatment of the insane, became Superintendent of the Friends’ Hospital for the Insane at Frankford, Pa; afterward was Medical Superintendent at Bloomingdale Asylum, New York city, and Professor at the old Berkshire Medical Institute at Pittsfield. He was appointed to the Superintendency of the Northampton Hospital in 1864, and besides making that institution a financial success gained the highest reputation as an allenist and reformed the practice of statistics of such institutions throughout the world. He was one of the most famous and progressive doctors of insanity in the world, his publications are numerous and he was a member of a great many medical and allenist societies in this country and Europe.
(Boston Journal, Wednesday 18 May 1892, p7)
Dr Pliny Earle’s Will
Leicester gets $6000 For a Town Library – Various Other Bequests
Northampton, May 19 – The funeral of Dr Pliny Earle this afternoon at the Hospital for the Insane was unassuming, in accordance with Dr Earle’s expressed wishes. Among those present were several trustees of the asylum and insanity experts of this state and Connecticut.
Dr Earle’s will gives most of his property to benevolent objects. He gives to the city of Northampton $50,000, the income to be used in defraying expenses of the Forbes library. The bulk of his medical library goes to the Forbes library. After the payment of the other legacies the rest of his estate goes to the $50,000 “aid fund.”
To the town of Leicester he gives $6000 toward the erection of a library. To the Uxbridge monthly meeting of friends, $2000; Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, $1000 each, and to the South Street Home in this city, $2000. To his nephews and nieces he bequeaths a total of $38,200.
Frank B Sanborn of Concord is his literary executor.
(Worcester Daily Spy, Friday 20 May 1892, p1)
Physician & psychiatrist.
One of the founders of : American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association (Assoc. of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane), New England Psychological Society & NY Academy of Medicine.
First Superintendent of Northampton State Hospital (State Lunatic Hospital) July 2 1864-Oct 1 1885. He developed the surrounding land into farmland used to feed the patients and he sold the excess to support the hospital. He believed in the therapeutic effects of work so many of the patients also worked at the facility. After his retirement, he continued to live there until his death.
Dr Pliny Earle
Dr Pliny Earle, for 21 years Superintendent of the Massachusetts Hospital for the Insane in Northampton, died last night at the hospital, where his residence had been maintained since his retirement in 1885. He was in his 83d year, having been born at Leicester, Mass, December 31, 1809. He was graduated from Pennsylvania University; spent several years abroad, paying special attention to the treatment of the insane, became Superintendent of the Friends’ Hospital for the Insane at Frankford, Pa; afterward was Medical Superintendent at Bloomingdale Asylum, New York city, and Professor at the old Berkshire Medical Institute at Pittsfield. He was appointed to the Superintendency of the Northampton Hospital in 1864, and besides making that institution a financial success gained the highest reputation as an allenist and reformed the practice of statistics of such institutions throughout the world. He was one of the most famous and progressive doctors of insanity in the world, his publications are numerous and he was a member of a great many medical and allenist societies in this country and Europe.
(Boston Journal, Wednesday 18 May 1892, p7)
Dr Pliny Earle’s Will
Leicester gets $6000 For a Town Library – Various Other Bequests
Northampton, May 19 – The funeral of Dr Pliny Earle this afternoon at the Hospital for the Insane was unassuming, in accordance with Dr Earle’s expressed wishes. Among those present were several trustees of the asylum and insanity experts of this state and Connecticut.
Dr Earle’s will gives most of his property to benevolent objects. He gives to the city of Northampton $50,000, the income to be used in defraying expenses of the Forbes library. The bulk of his medical library goes to the Forbes library. After the payment of the other legacies the rest of his estate goes to the $50,000 “aid fund.”
To the town of Leicester he gives $6000 toward the erection of a library. To the Uxbridge monthly meeting of friends, $2000; Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, $1000 each, and to the South Street Home in this city, $2000. To his nephews and nieces he bequeaths a total of $38,200.
Frank B Sanborn of Concord is his literary executor.
(Worcester Daily Spy, Friday 20 May 1892, p1)
Son of Pliny and Patience (Buffum) Earle.
Physician & psychiatrist.
One of the founders of : American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association (Assoc. of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane), New England Psychological Society & NY Academy of Medicine.
First Superintendent of Northampton State Hospital (State Lunatic Hospital) July 2 1864-Oct 1 1885. He developed the surrounding land into farmland used to feed the patients and he sold the excess to support the hospital. He believed in the therapeutic effects of work so many of the patients also worked at the facility. After his retirement, he continued to live there until his death.
Dr Pliny Earle
Dr Pliny Earle, for 21 years Superintendent of the Massachusetts Hospital for the Insane in Northampton, died last night at the hospital, where his residence had been maintained since his retirement in 1885. He was in his 83d year, having been born at Leicester, Mass, December 31, 1809. He was graduated from Pennsylvania University; spent several years abroad, paying special attention to the treatment of the insane, became Superintendent of the Friends’ Hospital for the Insane at Frankford, Pa; afterward was Medical Superintendent at Bloomingdale Asylum, New York city, and Professor at the old Berkshire Medical Institute at Pittsfield. He was appointed to the Superintendency of the Northampton Hospital in 1864, and besides making that institution a financial success gained the highest reputation as an allenist and reformed the practice of statistics of such institutions throughout the world. He was one of the most famous and progressive doctors of insanity in the world, his publications are numerous and he was a member of a great many medical and allenist societies in this country and Europe.
(Boston Journal, Wednesday 18 May 1892, p7)
Dr Pliny Earle’s Will
Leicester gets $6000 For a Town Library – Various Other Bequests
Northampton, May 19 – The funeral of Dr Pliny Earle this afternoon at the Hospital for the Insane was unassuming, in accordance with Dr Earle’s expressed wishes. Among those present were several trustees of the asylum and insanity experts of this state and Connecticut.
Dr Earle’s will gives most of his property to benevolent objects. He gives to the city of Northampton $50,000, the income to be used in defraying expenses of the Forbes library. The bulk of his medical library goes to the Forbes library. After the payment of the other legacies the rest of his estate goes to the $50,000 “aid fund.”
To the town of Leicester he gives $6000 toward the erection of a library. To the Uxbridge monthly meeting of friends, $2000; Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, $1000 each, and to the South Street Home in this city, $2000. To his nephews and nieces he bequeaths a total of $38,200.
Frank B Sanborn of Concord is his literary executor.
(Worcester Daily Spy, Friday 20 May 1892, p1)
Physician & psychiatrist.
One of the founders of : American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association (Assoc. of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane), New England Psychological Society & NY Academy of Medicine.
First Superintendent of Northampton State Hospital (State Lunatic Hospital) July 2 1864-Oct 1 1885. He developed the surrounding land into farmland used to feed the patients and he sold the excess to support the hospital. He believed in the therapeutic effects of work so many of the patients also worked at the facility. After his retirement, he continued to live there until his death.
Dr Pliny Earle
Dr Pliny Earle, for 21 years Superintendent of the Massachusetts Hospital for the Insane in Northampton, died last night at the hospital, where his residence had been maintained since his retirement in 1885. He was in his 83d year, having been born at Leicester, Mass, December 31, 1809. He was graduated from Pennsylvania University; spent several years abroad, paying special attention to the treatment of the insane, became Superintendent of the Friends’ Hospital for the Insane at Frankford, Pa; afterward was Medical Superintendent at Bloomingdale Asylum, New York city, and Professor at the old Berkshire Medical Institute at Pittsfield. He was appointed to the Superintendency of the Northampton Hospital in 1864, and besides making that institution a financial success gained the highest reputation as an allenist and reformed the practice of statistics of such institutions throughout the world. He was one of the most famous and progressive doctors of insanity in the world, his publications are numerous and he was a member of a great many medical and allenist societies in this country and Europe.
(Boston Journal, Wednesday 18 May 1892, p7)
Dr Pliny Earle’s Will
Leicester gets $6000 For a Town Library – Various Other Bequests
Northampton, May 19 – The funeral of Dr Pliny Earle this afternoon at the Hospital for the Insane was unassuming, in accordance with Dr Earle’s expressed wishes. Among those present were several trustees of the asylum and insanity experts of this state and Connecticut.
Dr Earle’s will gives most of his property to benevolent objects. He gives to the city of Northampton $50,000, the income to be used in defraying expenses of the Forbes library. The bulk of his medical library goes to the Forbes library. After the payment of the other legacies the rest of his estate goes to the $50,000 “aid fund.”
To the town of Leicester he gives $6000 toward the erection of a library. To the Uxbridge monthly meeting of friends, $2000; Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, $1000 each, and to the South Street Home in this city, $2000. To his nephews and nieces he bequeaths a total of $38,200.
Frank B Sanborn of Concord is his literary executor.
(Worcester Daily Spy, Friday 20 May 1892, p1)
Inscription
EARLE
Pliny Earle/A M M D //
Born at Leicester/Mass/Dec 31 1809
Died at Northampton/May 17 1892//
Physician in charge/and/Superintendent/of the/State Lunatic Hospital/in this City/July 2 1864/Oct 1 1885
Gravesite Details
On Entrance Road to the right after Childs monument
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