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1853 - 1942 (89 years)
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Name |
NOYES Rufus King |
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Dr. |
Birth |
24 May 1853 |
Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States [3, 4, 5] |
Gender |
Male |
Graduation |
1875 |
Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States [1] |
Address: Dartmouth College |
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Census |
14 Jun 1900 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States [6] |
Address: 50 Chambers Street |
- (age 47; physician; renting a home on Chambers Street.)
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Census |
12 Jan 1920 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States [7] |
Address: 87 Moraine Street |
- (age 66; medical doctor, general practice; owned home with a mortgage.)
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_UID |
AF900D38EB9ED5118A06444553540000B35A |
Death |
31 Aug 1942 |
Atkinson, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States [8, 9] |
- (Died at his summer home and house that his mother Lois Ann Noyes was born, dating to 1738. He was cremated and ashes buried in family lot in Atkinson on Sept. 6th. No services - just silence - as he requested.)
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Burial |
6 Sep 1942 |
Atkinson, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States [9, 10] |
Address: Old Burial Ground AKA Old Atkinson Cemetery |
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Joshua Flint & Lois Ann (Noyes) Noyes monument
Dr. Rufus King Noyes |
Notes |
- On this date in 1853 (May 24), Rufus King Noyes, M.D., was born in Hampstead, New Hampshire, the son of a prosperous farmer. Noyes graduated from Atkinson Academy in 1872, and received his medical degree from Dartmouth in 1875. He worked at Boston City Hospital as a house surgeon, ranking first in his competitive exam, and receiving a "hospital diploma" after 18 months. He practiced medicine and surgery in Boston throughout his career. "Dr. Noyes is a strong believer in nature, and is the author of the treatise entitled 'The Self-Curability of Diseases,' " according to Samuel Putnam's Four Hundred Years of Freethought (1894). Dr. Noyes compiled the History of Medicine for the Last Four Thousand Years and The Science and Art of Ignorance; or, The Conspiracy of Christian Ministers, Press and Theologians Against Humanity. Dr. Noyes described himself as a Materialist.
Reported in Pacific Medical Journal, Volume 25, page 358-361, 1883
A Bogus Diploma Mill in Massachusetts.
The "Bellevue Medical College of Massachusetts" is an institution of recent birth and one which has been doing a smart business after the methods of Buchanan of Philadelphia. One of its diplomas having been presented to the Illinois State Board of Health which is the Board of Examiners for that State, the Secretary regarded it with suspicion and set a trap to detect the fraud if fraud existed. A young man connected with the press was induced to make application to the "College" for a diploma, which he did in a letter purposely misspelt and which brought a satisfactory answer as given beneath. Noyes, the "President" of the concern, seems to have once been a regular physician, but was expelled from the State Society for engaging with a homeopath in a crusade against vaccination. Eastman, referred to in the correspondence, played the part of dean. Our readers will at least be amused at the manner and success of the trick even if they should not approve the deception employed in it. We learn that Noyes and probably Eastman also have been arrested and held to bail to answer a criminal charge growing out of their enterprise. The correspondence, as given in the Chicago Times, is as follows:
Springfield 11 Oct 24 - Mr. Rufus King Noyes Esq Boston Mass - Dear Sir Will you pleas Inform me what are the Requirements and feas for Graduation at Your College also how long your corse of lectures is Yours Truly V B Kelly
p S I have bin redin medesin about a year
To this the following reply was received:
Bellevue Medical College, Boston, Mass., Oct. 27, 1882. - Mr. Kelly - Dear Sir: - Enclosed please find circular of Bellevue Medical college.
For graduation it is required that you be and feel competant [sic] in Diagnosis, Treatment and Doctoral Conduct; that you can relieve human suffering; and that you prepare an essay or a thesis and present to the college.
The circular shows the regular five months course, but five months does not stand in the way of graduating any competant person. If you can not meet the above requirements you can come with us and be prepared in private in Diagnosis, Treatment, or any other department of study in which you may be deficient.
The regular fees are as named in the circular. In certain cases when extra attention is given an extra small fee may be charged. Sincerely, Rufus King Noyes, M.D.
On receipt of the above, the following answer was concocted and mailed:
Springfield Illinois October 30 1882 - Dr Rufus King Noyes Boston Mass - My Dear Dr - Your esteamed favor came to hand this morning I can se no reason under your Rules why I Cant get one of your Diplomys I hev ben Reading Medesin for a year and Besides that I hev ben tending on sick Purty near all my life so I hav a Purty Good idee About the Business I have a Good Many friends who I Doctor and they would Ruther hev me for a Doctor than any body else for I can Cure them when Other Doctors Cant I Can Diagnose a case every time But as I hav no Diplomy I cant Charge hardly any feas so I nead a Diplomy from a Good College but I aint got funds enuff to go Thear I aint got much edication Eather but dont think a man must go Through Colege to know how tu Doctor I know some Doctors who want to cramm Thear heads with Theories and no Practiss and they are so intolerable that they want Every Man to go to Colege but they are Rich and I am Poor and they want to crowd me out Because they are Afraid of Me and if I had a Diplomy I could hold my own with the Best of them These Doctors would not bother me If I had a Diplomy of the Bellevue Medical Colege and then they say I dont know Nuthing Because I Dont Beleave in Vacination But I hav sen Enuff of that Business but I will rite a Essay on that Thing and you can see what I think now Doctor I am Poor and if you will give me a Diplomy cheep I will do the Best I can for your Colege I think I hav showde you I am qualified and you can see what I know By the Essay I send you You can send a Diplomy C. o. d. Address to Yours Truly
V. B. Kelly Box 3027 Springfield I11 P s send rite away
Some doubt was entertained after dispatching the above lest the matter had been overdone - lest even the faculty of the Massachusetts Bellevue might not think Mr. Kelly "competant." But these fears were promptly dispelled by the receipt of the following:
Bellevue Medical College, Boston, Nov. 2, 1882. - Mr. Kelly - Dear Sir: You, as a candidate for graduation, have been favorably considered by the faculty; and your thesis has been examined by the professors and found to be acceptable. In consideration that you cannot attend the college you are required to purchase two tickets of matriculation. These tickets will show that you will have been under the instruction of the Bellevue Medical college for two years. These two years together with the one year you have studied by yourself, will make as much time spent in the study of medicine as is spent by any other medical student from any other college. We believe you are and will ever be competent in diagnosis, treatment and doctoral conduct. Of course you know every doctor has to continue his studies after he has taken his diploma. You are correct on the vaccination question and I am confident you will meet with continued success. Your diploma will be sent C. O. D. one week from the date of this letter. It will be securely packed in a pasteboard box. Your bill for diploma and two tickets is $150. The tickets and diploma go together. The one cannot go without the other. ;President.
The last four lines of the above are written at the top of the sheet and run down to the line "Bellevue Medical college," at the beginning of the letter. This may account for the omission of any name. But the handwriting is identical with that of October 27, signed "Rufus King Noyes, M.D.," and the warm approval of Mr. Kelly's position on the vaccination question hardfy required his signature to identify Noyes as the writer.
Notwithstanding the repeated statement as to the inseparability of the tickets and the diploma, two tickets with bill, reading as follows, were inclosed in the above letter:
$75.00.
Bellevue Medical College Of Massachusetts, Boston, June 1, 1882: - Mr. V. B. Kelly has matriculated for the course of lectures for 1882. Chas. J. Eastman, M.D., Dean.
$75.00.
Bellevue Medical College Of Massachusetts. Boston, Nov. 1, 1882. - Mr. V. B. Kelly has matriculated for the course of lectures for 1883. Chas. J. Eastman, M.D., Dean.
Bellevue Medical College, Boston, Mass., Nov. 2, 1882. - Mr. V. B. Kelly, Dr. To Bellevue Medical College: For two matriculation tickets and diploma (one hundred and fifty dollars) $150.
Mr. Kelly replied acknowledging the receipt of the document as follows:
Springfield 11 Nov 8 1882 - Dr Rufuss King Noyes Boston Mass - My Dear Doctor: Yours of the 2d Come to hand and its Contents Noted with grate Pleesure I was glad that my Application for a Diplomy had ben Accepted But I was Sorry that you charge so much it was More than I expecked to Pay and I hav not got all the Money now but I think the Price is not to much considering I save bord in Boston &c and if you will send the Diplomy and let it be in the Express oflis Until I can rase the Balance of the money about two weaks All will Be all right you can send the Diploma at the time you sed and I can get it as soon as I can get the funds Collection is hard to make just now But I can get the money before two weaks Pleas answer rite away and send the diplomy when you sed you would Yours Truly
Box 3027 V B Kelly
Bellevue Medical College Of Massachusetts. Boston, Nov. 1, 1882. - Mr. V. B. Kelly has matriculated for the course of lectures for 1883. Chas. J. Eastman, M.D., Dean.
Bellevue Medical College, Boston, Mass., Nov. 2, 1882. - Mr. V. B. Kelly, Dr. To Bellevue Medical College: For two matriculation tickets and diploma (one hundred and fifty dollars) $150.
Mr. Kelly replied acknowledging the receipt of the document as follows:
Springfield 11 Nov 8 1882 - Dr Rufuss King Noyes Boston Mass - My Dear Doctor: Yours of the 2d Come to hand and its Contents Noted with grate Pleesure I was glad that my Application for a Diplomy had ben Accepted But I was Sorry that you charge so much it was More than I expecked to Pay and I hav not got all the Money now but I think the Price is not to much considering I save bord in Boston &c and if you will send the Diplomy and let it be in the Express oflis Until I can rase the Balance of the money about two weaks All will Be all right you can send the Diploma at the time you sed and I can get it as soon as I can get the funds Collection is hard to make just now But I can get the money before two weaks Pleas answer rite away and send the diplomy when you sed you would Yours Truly
Box 3027 V B Kelly
Mr. Kelly was notified of the sending of the diploma by the following letters from the president and dean of the "faculty," and of its arrival in Springfield by the usual notice of the express company, which completes the chain of evidence:
Bellevue Medical College, Boston, Mass., Nov. 15, 1882. - Mr. Kelly - Dear Sir: Your proposed arrangement is satisfactory. The article was sent by express per agreement, Nov. 9, C. O. D. Perhaps it would be well for you to call at your express office and tell them that you will soon call for your package. It is generally best not to have too much delay in these matters of expressage, especially where they are C. O. D., for the longer a thing lays in an express office the more time there is for thought and gossip about it.
Hoping to hear from you presently, I am yours, sincerely,
Rufus King Noyes.
Boston Nove 16 1882 - Mr Kelly Dear Sir On the 9th we sent to your address by the American Express company a sealed package marked $150 C. O. D. which it will be necessary for you to attend to at once as valuable packages call for considerable attention on the part of the company. Respectfully, yours,
Chas. J. Eastman, M.D., Dean.
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Person ID |
I14051 |
Noyes Family Genealogy |
Last Modified |
16 Mar 2015 |
Father |
NOYES Joshua Flint, b. 23 Jan 1818, Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States d. 15 Mar 1907, Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States (Age 89 years) |
Mother |
NOYES Lois Ann, b. 17 Aug 1821, Atkinson, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States d. 20 Dec 1899, Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States (Age 78 years) |
Marriage |
26 Dec 1843 |
Atkinson, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States [4, 11, 12] |
Family ID |
F5285 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
WHITE Grace Jennie, b. 1 Apr 1879, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 1968 (Age 88 years) |
Marriage |
28 Aug 1912 |
Roslindale, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States [10] |
Family ID |
F27992 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
23 Feb 2024 |
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| Capt. James Noyes homestead
29 East Road
Atkinson, NH
This home was originally a Noyes homestead and was occupied by a member of the Noyes family until 1855. Available records indicate the original four rooms of the eight room dwelling were built in 1738. In 1906, four more rooms were added to the original house by Dr. Rufus Noyes whose family used it as a summer home for many years. Antique collectors have been attracted to an upstairs window which has unique "bullseye" panes of hand-drawn green glass. All original windows are of the "nine over six" variety.
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Sources |
- [S65] Book-Noyes-The Noyes Descendants, Vol. I, p.412.
- [S106] Internet Online Homepage, http://www.ffrf.org/day/?sel=1&day=24&month=5.
- [S65] Book-Noyes-The Noyes Descendants, Vol. I, p.411.
- [S533] Book-Genealogy of the Merrick Mirick, Myrick Famil, p.204, CS71.M57x 1902.
- [S1606] Book-Hampstead-A Memorial History of Hampstead, NH Vol. 1, p.359.
- [S2764] Census-1900-MA-Suffolk-Boston, Roll: T623_679 Page: 15B; Enumeration District: 1271.
- [S2960] Census-1920-MA-Suffolk-Boston, Year: 1920; Census Place: Boston Ward 22, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_739; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 528; Image: 858.
- [S4173] Manuscript-The Continuous Family Genealogy-Harriette E. Noyes, Part II p.236.
- [S86] Death-gravestone, Old Burial Grounds AKA Old Atkinson Cemetery; Atkinson, NH.
- [S4173] Manuscript-The Continuous Family Genealogy-Harriette E. Noyes, Part II p.94.
- [S65] Book-Noyes-The Noyes Descendants, Vol. I, p.401.
- [S4173] Manuscript-The Continuous Family Genealogy-Harriette E. Noyes, 2:11.
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