Charles S. Caverly, son of Abial M., born Sept. 30, 1856; married, November, 1885, Mabel A. Tuttle of Rutland, Vt. After 1862, he spent his early life in Pittsford, Vt., to which place his father removed from Troy. He obtained his preliminary education at Brandon, Vt., high school and at Kimball Union Academy. Meriden, N.H., graduating from the latter institution in 1874. He entered Dartmouth College, graduating in the class of '78. Commenced the study of medicine under the instruction of his father, and after his death continuing his studies with Dr. M. Goldsmith of Rutland, Vt. He attended lectures at the medical department of the University of Vermont, and was graduated M.D. in 1881; also attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of New York, 1881-82, besides several courses under private instruction in the same city. He commenced the practice of medicine at Rutland, Jan. 1, 1883, and has continued there to the present time. Dr. Caverly is a member and in 1891-92 was president of the Vermont Medical Society; member and in 1891-92 president of the Rutland County Medical and Surgical Society; member of the American Medical Association; American Public Health Association, and of the Rutland Medical Club; member of and for the past six years president of the Vermont State Board of Health. Was the first health officer of the village of Rutland, holding the office for three terms; served about three years as assistant surgeon of the First Vermont Regiment, National Guard, resigning in 1889. Is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a member of the board of directors of the Rutland Hospital. He has made a special study of diseases of the throat, nose and lungs, and has presented numerous papers to the medical societies of which he is a member, many of them being published in their transactions. (From "Historical Sketch of the Town of Troy, New Hampshire and Her Inhabitants, 1764-1897" by Dr. M.T. Stone; pub. by Sentinel Publishing Co., Keene, NH, 1897)
**********
Excerpts from "The Vermonter" Vol. 23, No. 12, pub. 1919:
In the death of Dr. Charles Solomon Caverly, on October sixteenth last, Vermont lost a great man and one of her best citizens. Widely known as an authority on questions of public health and as a specialist on infantile paralysis, he had been president of the State Board of Health since 1891, and in that capacity and as professor of hygiene at the University of Vermont he had given freely of his best thought and energy to the public welfare.
It is characteristic of the man that he died fighting, cut down by the scourge of influenza, against the epidemic of which in Vermont he had been active. When the disease broke out in the state, he assumed personal charge of and responsibility for the work of prevention, and it was due to his foresight and sagacity that prompt action was taken in closing places of public resort and also in organizing an effective force to combat the epidemic in the worst affected localities. His private practice, also, was rendered unusually arduous by the epidemic, but though, since a severe illness of last winter, he had been advised to save himself, he gave instead to the utmost. When the disease fastened upon him, his vitality had been heavily drawn upon, and though everything was done to save him he died after a three days' illness.
His wife, Mabel Alice Tuttle Caverly, and one sister, Mrs. H. H. Swift of Pittsford, survive him. A son, Harley T., died in 1910, at the age of 23 years, while taking a post-graduate course in medicine at John Hopkins university at Baltimore.
HIS PUBLIC WORK.
Although decidedly successful in private practice, it was in connection with public health movements that Dr. Caverly was best known. Some of the offices he has filled are as follows:
Health officer of Rutland, assistant surgeon 1st regiment, Vermont national guard, member Vermont state board of health in 1890 and its president and animating spirit since 1891, president Rutland County medical society in 1893, president Vermont State medical society in 1892, director and vice president Rutland hospital association, vice president and director Pittsford sanatorium, director American public health association and counsellor for New England district, fellow American medical association.
He was professor of hygiene and preventive medicine in the University of Vermont, and was to have commenced his annual course of lectures the week following his death. The United States government had intended to have every student attend this course.
He was a member of the Congregational church and Rutland lodge, No. 79, F. and A.M., of Davenport chapter, R.A.M., and Killington commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar.
He was a charter member of the Rutland Country club and a member of Phi Beta Kappa in Dartmouth. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Vermont on account of his distinguished services in the interest of public health. Not only had he been the executive head of the state board of health for 27 years, but he was active in securing most of the progressive legislation which has placed Vermont in the first rank of states so far as public health is concerned.
TUBERCULOSIS PREVENTION AND CURE.
Dr. Caverly had long taken a deep interest in the cure and prevention of tuberculosis. The Pittsford Sanatorium which, in his official capacity, he had much to do with securing and establishing, was the child of his dreams, and it had had his unfailing care and thought. His connection with the newer institution, the Preventorium at Essex, is described in a separate article.
In connection with his study of tuberculosis, he attended a meeting of the sub-committee of the National Tuberculosis association at Saranac Lake last July, called to consider "dusty trades," being associated there with such recognized leaders of medical thought and treatment as Frederick Hoffman, statistician of the Prudential company, Dr. Edward R. Baldwin, director of the Trudeau foundation, Capt. Lanza of the U.S.P.H. service, Dr. Michael of North Carolina and Dr. Alice Hamilton from the department of labor in Washington. In both the treatment and study of tuberculosis and polio Dr. Caverly was recognized as a national authority.
Dr. and Mrs. Caverly made several trips to Europe where the doctor visited various institutions and hospitals for the purpose of making a study of European methods for sanitation and health.
A PERSONAL TRIBUTE.
Perhaps the most striking characteristics of Charles S. Caverly as a public man were his absolute justice and his fearless adherence to a plan of conduct once conscientiously adopted. He was faithful to every trust, both public and private, and his word was an instrument on which men soon learned to rely.
He took his profession seriously, was successful therein himself and helped many young men to become successful. In late years, he sacrificed self and profit for public service, giving to the public health energies and abilities which would have meant large financial gains had he employed them solely in compensated practice.
It will never be known just how much
Dr. Caverly gave to Vermont and the wider public of the country, but at the last it may truthfully be said that he gave his life, because, had he relinquished the duties and responsibilities of his public work for the well-earned relaxation of private life, the chances are that he would be alive today.
Among his intimate friends, Charles S. Caverly was an eminently human companion. He was fond of good company, dearly loved a joke and was a devoted lover of Vermont's outdoors. Although he regarded the practice of medicine with the most serious respect, he was by no means a one-idea man, but possessed a rich intellectual store of general knowledge with considerable insight into matters of literature and art, acquired and cultivated during a life of active reading and observation, both at home and abroad.
He took no active personal part in politics, but may fairly be credited with fathering all the advanced legislation on public health which has passed Vermont Legislatures in the past 15 or 20 years, with the result that both in legislation and practice, the state is a recognized leader. In addition, he succeeded in building up a department of research in connection with the state laboratory of hygiene, which has at times astounded the medical world with the originality and importance of its discoveries.
Personally, Dr. Caverly was a genial and gracious host, a faithful friend and an honest man. During the years in which he has lived among us his life and private character have not only been above reproach, but an ideal and inspiration in an age which does not regard such old-fashioned virtues as highly as it should.
As physician, friend and citizen, Rutland and Rutland people will not only miss him now, but will form an enhanced estimate of his character and worth as the years pass and the perspective of time fixes his place among the men who have made the world a little better as they passed along. - H.L.H.
**********
Excerpts from "The Vermonter" Vol. 23, No. 12, pub. 1919:
In the death of Dr. Charles Solomon Caverly, on October sixteenth last, Vermont lost a great man and one of her best citizens. Widely known as an authority on questions of public health and as a specialist on infantile paralysis, he had been president of the State Board of Health since 1891, and in that capacity and as professor of hygiene at the University of Vermont he had given freely of his best thought and energy to the public welfare.
It is characteristic of the man that he died fighting, cut down by the scourge of influenza, against the epidemic of which in Vermont he had been active. When the disease broke out in the state, he assumed personal charge of and responsibility for the work of prevention, and it was due to his foresight and sagacity that prompt action was taken in closing places of public resort and also in organizing an effective force to combat the epidemic in the worst affected localities. His private practice, also, was rendered unusually arduous by the epidemic, but though, since a severe illness of last winter, he had been advised to save himself, he gave instead to the utmost. When the disease fastened upon him, his vitality had been heavily drawn upon, and though everything was done to save him he died after a three days' illness.
His wife, Mabel Alice Tuttle Caverly, and one sister, Mrs. H. H. Swift of Pittsford, survive him. A son, Harley T., died in 1910, at the age of 23 years, while taking a post-graduate course in medicine at John Hopkins university at Baltimore.
HIS PUBLIC WORK.
Although decidedly successful in private practice, it was in connection with public health movements that Dr. Caverly was best known. Some of the offices he has filled are as follows:
Health officer of Rutland, assistant surgeon 1st regiment, Vermont national guard, member Vermont state board of health in 1890 and its president and animating spirit since 1891, president Rutland County medical society in 1893, president Vermont State medical society in 1892, director and vice president Rutland hospital association, vice president and director Pittsford sanatorium, director American public health association and counsellor for New England district, fellow American medical association.
He was professor of hygiene and preventive medicine in the University of Vermont, and was to have commenced his annual course of lectures the week following his death. The United States government had intended to have every student attend this course.
He was a member of the Congregational church and Rutland lodge, No. 79, F. and A.M., of Davenport chapter, R.A.M., and Killington commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar.
He was a charter member of the Rutland Country club and a member of Phi Beta Kappa in Dartmouth. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Vermont on account of his distinguished services in the interest of public health. Not only had he been the executive head of the state board of health for 27 years, but he was active in securing most of the progressive legislation which has placed Vermont in the first rank of states so far as public health is concerned.
TUBERCULOSIS PREVENTION AND CURE.
Dr. Caverly had long taken a deep interest in the cure and prevention of tuberculosis. The Pittsford Sanatorium which, in his official capacity, he had much to do with securing and establishing, was the child of his dreams, and it had had his unfailing care and thought. His connection with the newer institution, the Preventorium at Essex, is described in a separate article.
In connection with his study of tuberculosis, he attended a meeting of the sub-committee of the National Tuberculosis association at Saranac Lake last July, called to consider "dusty trades," being associated there with such recognized leaders of medical thought and treatment as Frederick Hoffman, statistician of the Prudential company, Dr. Edward R. Baldwin, director of the Trudeau foundation, Capt. Lanza of the U.S.P.H. service, Dr. Michael of North Carolina and Dr. Alice Hamilton from the department of labor in Washington. In both the treatment and study of tuberculosis and polio Dr. Caverly was recognized as a national authority.
Dr. and Mrs. Caverly made several trips to Europe where the doctor visited various institutions and hospitals for the purpose of making a study of European methods for sanitation and health.
A PERSONAL TRIBUTE.
Perhaps the most striking characteristics of Charles S. Caverly as a public man were his absolute justice and his fearless adherence to a plan of conduct once conscientiously adopted. He was faithful to every trust, both public and private, and his word was an instrument on which men soon learned to rely.
He took his profession seriously, was successful therein himself and helped many young men to become successful. In late years, he sacrificed self and profit for public service, giving to the public health energies and abilities which would have meant large financial gains had he employed them solely in compensated practice.
It will never be known just how much
Dr. Caverly gave to Vermont and the wider public of the country, but at the last it may truthfully be said that he gave his life, because, had he relinquished the duties and responsibilities of his public work for the well-earned relaxation of private life, the chances are that he would be alive today.
Among his intimate friends, Charles S. Caverly was an eminently human companion. He was fond of good company, dearly loved a joke and was a devoted lover of Vermont's outdoors. Although he regarded the practice of medicine with the most serious respect, he was by no means a one-idea man, but possessed a rich intellectual store of general knowledge with considerable insight into matters of literature and art, acquired and cultivated during a life of active reading and observation, both at home and abroad.
He took no active personal part in politics, but may fairly be credited with fathering all the advanced legislation on public health which has passed Vermont Legislatures in the past 15 or 20 years, with the result that both in legislation and practice, the state is a recognized leader. In addition, he succeeded in building up a department of research in connection with the state laboratory of hygiene, which has at times astounded the medical world with the originality and importance of its discoveries.
Personally, Dr. Caverly was a genial and gracious host, a faithful friend and an honest man. During the years in which he has lived among us his life and private character have not only been above reproach, but an ideal and inspiration in an age which does not regard such old-fashioned virtues as highly as it should.
As physician, friend and citizen, Rutland and Rutland people will not only miss him now, but will form an enhanced estimate of his character and worth as the years pass and the perspective of time fixes his place among the men who have made the world a little better as they passed along. - H.L.H.
Charles S. Caverly, son of Abial M., born Sept. 30, 1856; married, November, 1885, Mabel A. Tuttle of Rutland, Vt. After 1862, he spent his early life in Pittsford, Vt., to which place his father removed from Troy. He obtained his preliminary education at Brandon, Vt., high school and at Kimball Union Academy. Meriden, N.H., graduating from the latter institution in 1874. He entered Dartmouth College, graduating in the class of '78. Commenced the study of medicine under the instruction of his father, and after his death continuing his studies with Dr. M. Goldsmith of Rutland, Vt. He attended lectures at the medical department of the University of Vermont, and was graduated M.D. in 1881; also attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of New York, 1881-82, besides several courses under private instruction in the same city. He commenced the practice of medicine at Rutland, Jan. 1, 1883, and has continued there to the present time. Dr. Caverly is a member and in 1891-92 was president of the Vermont Medical Society; member and in 1891-92 president of the Rutland County Medical and Surgical Society; member of the American Medical Association; American Public Health Association, and of the Rutland Medical Club; member of and for the past six years president of the Vermont State Board of Health. Was the first health officer of the village of Rutland, holding the office for three terms; served about three years as assistant surgeon of the First Vermont Regiment, National Guard, resigning in 1889. Is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a member of the board of directors of the Rutland Hospital. He has made a special study of diseases of the throat, nose and lungs, and has presented numerous papers to the medical societies of which he is a member, many of them being published in their transactions. (From "Historical Sketch of the Town of Troy, New Hampshire and Her Inhabitants, 1764-1897" by Dr. M.T. Stone; pub. by Sentinel Publishing Co., Keene, NH, 1897)
**********
Excerpts from "The Vermonter" Vol. 23, No. 12, pub. 1919:
In the death of Dr. Charles Solomon Caverly, on October sixteenth last, Vermont lost a great man and one of her best citizens. Widely known as an authority on questions of public health and as a specialist on infantile paralysis, he had been president of the State Board of Health since 1891, and in that capacity and as professor of hygiene at the University of Vermont he had given freely of his best thought and energy to the public welfare.
It is characteristic of the man that he died fighting, cut down by the scourge of influenza, against the epidemic of which in Vermont he had been active. When the disease broke out in the state, he assumed personal charge of and responsibility for the work of prevention, and it was due to his foresight and sagacity that prompt action was taken in closing places of public resort and also in organizing an effective force to combat the epidemic in the worst affected localities. His private practice, also, was rendered unusually arduous by the epidemic, but though, since a severe illness of last winter, he had been advised to save himself, he gave instead to the utmost. When the disease fastened upon him, his vitality had been heavily drawn upon, and though everything was done to save him he died after a three days' illness.
His wife, Mabel Alice Tuttle Caverly, and one sister, Mrs. H. H. Swift of Pittsford, survive him. A son, Harley T., died in 1910, at the age of 23 years, while taking a post-graduate course in medicine at John Hopkins university at Baltimore.
HIS PUBLIC WORK.
Although decidedly successful in private practice, it was in connection with public health movements that Dr. Caverly was best known. Some of the offices he has filled are as follows:
Health officer of Rutland, assistant surgeon 1st regiment, Vermont national guard, member Vermont state board of health in 1890 and its president and animating spirit since 1891, president Rutland County medical society in 1893, president Vermont State medical society in 1892, director and vice president Rutland hospital association, vice president and director Pittsford sanatorium, director American public health association and counsellor for New England district, fellow American medical association.
He was professor of hygiene and preventive medicine in the University of Vermont, and was to have commenced his annual course of lectures the week following his death. The United States government had intended to have every student attend this course.
He was a member of the Congregational church and Rutland lodge, No. 79, F. and A.M., of Davenport chapter, R.A.M., and Killington commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar.
He was a charter member of the Rutland Country club and a member of Phi Beta Kappa in Dartmouth. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Vermont on account of his distinguished services in the interest of public health. Not only had he been the executive head of the state board of health for 27 years, but he was active in securing most of the progressive legislation which has placed Vermont in the first rank of states so far as public health is concerned.
TUBERCULOSIS PREVENTION AND CURE.
Dr. Caverly had long taken a deep interest in the cure and prevention of tuberculosis. The Pittsford Sanatorium which, in his official capacity, he had much to do with securing and establishing, was the child of his dreams, and it had had his unfailing care and thought. His connection with the newer institution, the Preventorium at Essex, is described in a separate article.
In connection with his study of tuberculosis, he attended a meeting of the sub-committee of the National Tuberculosis association at Saranac Lake last July, called to consider "dusty trades," being associated there with such recognized leaders of medical thought and treatment as Frederick Hoffman, statistician of the Prudential company, Dr. Edward R. Baldwin, director of the Trudeau foundation, Capt. Lanza of the U.S.P.H. service, Dr. Michael of North Carolina and Dr. Alice Hamilton from the department of labor in Washington. In both the treatment and study of tuberculosis and polio Dr. Caverly was recognized as a national authority.
Dr. and Mrs. Caverly made several trips to Europe where the doctor visited various institutions and hospitals for the purpose of making a study of European methods for sanitation and health.
A PERSONAL TRIBUTE.
Perhaps the most striking characteristics of Charles S. Caverly as a public man were his absolute justice and his fearless adherence to a plan of conduct once conscientiously adopted. He was faithful to every trust, both public and private, and his word was an instrument on which men soon learned to rely.
He took his profession seriously, was successful therein himself and helped many young men to become successful. In late years, he sacrificed self and profit for public service, giving to the public health energies and abilities which would have meant large financial gains had he employed them solely in compensated practice.
It will never be known just how much
Dr. Caverly gave to Vermont and the wider public of the country, but at the last it may truthfully be said that he gave his life, because, had he relinquished the duties and responsibilities of his public work for the well-earned relaxation of private life, the chances are that he would be alive today.
Among his intimate friends, Charles S. Caverly was an eminently human companion. He was fond of good company, dearly loved a joke and was a devoted lover of Vermont's outdoors. Although he regarded the practice of medicine with the most serious respect, he was by no means a one-idea man, but possessed a rich intellectual store of general knowledge with considerable insight into matters of literature and art, acquired and cultivated during a life of active reading and observation, both at home and abroad.
He took no active personal part in politics, but may fairly be credited with fathering all the advanced legislation on public health which has passed Vermont Legislatures in the past 15 or 20 years, with the result that both in legislation and practice, the state is a recognized leader. In addition, he succeeded in building up a department of research in connection with the state laboratory of hygiene, which has at times astounded the medical world with the originality and importance of its discoveries.
Personally, Dr. Caverly was a genial and gracious host, a faithful friend and an honest man. During the years in which he has lived among us his life and private character have not only been above reproach, but an ideal and inspiration in an age which does not regard such old-fashioned virtues as highly as it should.
As physician, friend and citizen, Rutland and Rutland people will not only miss him now, but will form an enhanced estimate of his character and worth as the years pass and the perspective of time fixes his place among the men who have made the world a little better as they passed along. - H.L.H.
**********
Excerpts from "The Vermonter" Vol. 23, No. 12, pub. 1919:
In the death of Dr. Charles Solomon Caverly, on October sixteenth last, Vermont lost a great man and one of her best citizens. Widely known as an authority on questions of public health and as a specialist on infantile paralysis, he had been president of the State Board of Health since 1891, and in that capacity and as professor of hygiene at the University of Vermont he had given freely of his best thought and energy to the public welfare.
It is characteristic of the man that he died fighting, cut down by the scourge of influenza, against the epidemic of which in Vermont he had been active. When the disease broke out in the state, he assumed personal charge of and responsibility for the work of prevention, and it was due to his foresight and sagacity that prompt action was taken in closing places of public resort and also in organizing an effective force to combat the epidemic in the worst affected localities. His private practice, also, was rendered unusually arduous by the epidemic, but though, since a severe illness of last winter, he had been advised to save himself, he gave instead to the utmost. When the disease fastened upon him, his vitality had been heavily drawn upon, and though everything was done to save him he died after a three days' illness.
His wife, Mabel Alice Tuttle Caverly, and one sister, Mrs. H. H. Swift of Pittsford, survive him. A son, Harley T., died in 1910, at the age of 23 years, while taking a post-graduate course in medicine at John Hopkins university at Baltimore.
HIS PUBLIC WORK.
Although decidedly successful in private practice, it was in connection with public health movements that Dr. Caverly was best known. Some of the offices he has filled are as follows:
Health officer of Rutland, assistant surgeon 1st regiment, Vermont national guard, member Vermont state board of health in 1890 and its president and animating spirit since 1891, president Rutland County medical society in 1893, president Vermont State medical society in 1892, director and vice president Rutland hospital association, vice president and director Pittsford sanatorium, director American public health association and counsellor for New England district, fellow American medical association.
He was professor of hygiene and preventive medicine in the University of Vermont, and was to have commenced his annual course of lectures the week following his death. The United States government had intended to have every student attend this course.
He was a member of the Congregational church and Rutland lodge, No. 79, F. and A.M., of Davenport chapter, R.A.M., and Killington commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar.
He was a charter member of the Rutland Country club and a member of Phi Beta Kappa in Dartmouth. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Vermont on account of his distinguished services in the interest of public health. Not only had he been the executive head of the state board of health for 27 years, but he was active in securing most of the progressive legislation which has placed Vermont in the first rank of states so far as public health is concerned.
TUBERCULOSIS PREVENTION AND CURE.
Dr. Caverly had long taken a deep interest in the cure and prevention of tuberculosis. The Pittsford Sanatorium which, in his official capacity, he had much to do with securing and establishing, was the child of his dreams, and it had had his unfailing care and thought. His connection with the newer institution, the Preventorium at Essex, is described in a separate article.
In connection with his study of tuberculosis, he attended a meeting of the sub-committee of the National Tuberculosis association at Saranac Lake last July, called to consider "dusty trades," being associated there with such recognized leaders of medical thought and treatment as Frederick Hoffman, statistician of the Prudential company, Dr. Edward R. Baldwin, director of the Trudeau foundation, Capt. Lanza of the U.S.P.H. service, Dr. Michael of North Carolina and Dr. Alice Hamilton from the department of labor in Washington. In both the treatment and study of tuberculosis and polio Dr. Caverly was recognized as a national authority.
Dr. and Mrs. Caverly made several trips to Europe where the doctor visited various institutions and hospitals for the purpose of making a study of European methods for sanitation and health.
A PERSONAL TRIBUTE.
Perhaps the most striking characteristics of Charles S. Caverly as a public man were his absolute justice and his fearless adherence to a plan of conduct once conscientiously adopted. He was faithful to every trust, both public and private, and his word was an instrument on which men soon learned to rely.
He took his profession seriously, was successful therein himself and helped many young men to become successful. In late years, he sacrificed self and profit for public service, giving to the public health energies and abilities which would have meant large financial gains had he employed them solely in compensated practice.
It will never be known just how much
Dr. Caverly gave to Vermont and the wider public of the country, but at the last it may truthfully be said that he gave his life, because, had he relinquished the duties and responsibilities of his public work for the well-earned relaxation of private life, the chances are that he would be alive today.
Among his intimate friends, Charles S. Caverly was an eminently human companion. He was fond of good company, dearly loved a joke and was a devoted lover of Vermont's outdoors. Although he regarded the practice of medicine with the most serious respect, he was by no means a one-idea man, but possessed a rich intellectual store of general knowledge with considerable insight into matters of literature and art, acquired and cultivated during a life of active reading and observation, both at home and abroad.
He took no active personal part in politics, but may fairly be credited with fathering all the advanced legislation on public health which has passed Vermont Legislatures in the past 15 or 20 years, with the result that both in legislation and practice, the state is a recognized leader. In addition, he succeeded in building up a department of research in connection with the state laboratory of hygiene, which has at times astounded the medical world with the originality and importance of its discoveries.
Personally, Dr. Caverly was a genial and gracious host, a faithful friend and an honest man. During the years in which he has lived among us his life and private character have not only been above reproach, but an ideal and inspiration in an age which does not regard such old-fashioned virtues as highly as it should.
As physician, friend and citizen, Rutland and Rutland people will not only miss him now, but will form an enhanced estimate of his character and worth as the years pass and the perspective of time fixes his place among the men who have made the world a little better as they passed along. - H.L.H.
Inscription
M.D., Sc.D.
