Descendants Clement Corbin » George Newton Lawson (1865-????)

Personal data George Newton Lawson 

• He was born on July 2, 1865 in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA.Sources 2, 3
• Title: [Dr]Source 3
• Occupations:
• in the year 1880 Works on farm..Source 5
• on April 1, 1893 Medical examiner for the town of Chatham.Source 6
• Education:
• in the year 1885 (Graduated Hitchcock Free High School), Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA.Sources 2, 3
• between 1890 and 1892 Graduated from Yale Medical School. M.D..Source 3
• Resident:
• in the year 1900: .Source 1
• on August 15, 1892: .Source 3
• Census in the year 1880, Union City, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.Source 4
• A child of Edwin Newton Lawson and Sarah Ellen Corbin

Household of George Newton Lawson

He is married to Ida Louise McLean.

They got married on June 17, 1897, he was 31 years old.Sources 1, 2, 3

Child(ren):

1. Donald Lawson  1901-
2. Clement Corbin Lawson  1904-
3. George McLean Lawson  1898-????

Notes about George Newton Lawson

Rev. Harvey M. Lawson, Ph.B., B.D., "History and Genealogy of the Descendants of Clement Corbin of Muddy River (Brookline) Mass. and Woodstock, Conn.", 1905, pp. 257-258 #411 "GEORGE NEWTON LAWSON, b. July 2, 1865. He graduated from the Hitchcock Free High School at Brimfield, Mass. in 1885, from Yale College in 1896 and from the Yale Medical School in 1892. On Aug 15, 1892, he settled in Middle Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, where he went into partnership with Dr. A. B. Worthington, who d. April 26, 1898. Dr. Lawson was appointed medical examiner for the town of Chatham April 1, 1893, and town health officer July 23, 1901, during a smallpox epidemic. He is a member of the Middlesex County Medical Association, of the State Medical Society, and of the Middletown Medical Association. He has served the Congregational Church of Middle Haddam as deacon since April 4, 1895, and chairman of the society's committee since December of that year. He has also been president of the local and Middlesex County C. E. Unions. He has been secretary and treasurer of the Middle Haddam public library since August, 1893, and director of the Chatham library since its formation. He m. Ida Louis McLean of Middle Haddam, June 17, 1897."

The following poem by Dr. G. N. Lawson of Middle Haddam, a former resident of Union, was read at the dedication of the soldiers' monument at Union on Memorial Day, 1902:

IN COMING YEARS.
What message will yon block of granite bear
To those who in the days to come shall pas this way?
What will it tell the man bowed down with care?
What lesson teach the child who sees it in his play?

In each one, as he looks, some different thoughts will
rise,
As each in life has played some different role.
we see the colors suited to our natural eyes;
We feel those yearnings germane to our soul.

Perchance some father, seeing this, may pray:
"God grant my boy may be of those who dare
To follow where the flag of right may lead the way.
That he attain a noble, earnest manhood is my
prayer."

The mother, taught by this, will partly know
The tearful eagerness, the trembling pride
Of those who kissed their sons adieu so long ago.
and tried with smiles their aching hearts to hide.

the maid or matron to whose life has come
The love of some strong, noble, upright man,
Will know the choking throats that made those others dumb,
Of hearts that ached at parting as only woman's
can.

Some passing youth may feel his pulses swell,
His muscles tighten and his teeth shut fast;
The call to do, to dare, to be, may tell
Of earnest manhood come, of childhoods play-life
passed.

This mute memorial of a dark, sad time
Gives us some hint of that glad future day,
When wars shall cease in every land and clime,
When guns shall rust and swords be laid away.

GEORGE NEWTON LAWSON
Union, Tolland, Connecticut, May 30, 1902.

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