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Gilbert, John, physician and surgeon, was born in Newton, Cheshire, England, January 3, 1847, and came with
his parents to Fall River in 1859. He obtained his rudimentary education in England and for a short time attended
the Fall River schools, but in the man is self educated. For several years he worked in the cotton mills and in
a grocery store, spending all of his leisure time in diligent study, devoting much time to theology and preparing
himself for the ministry in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, which upholds the
doctrine of the church as organized in 1830 by Joseph Smith and others, and which is in contradistinction to the
Mormon church of Utah, its members looking with horror on the teachings of the Utah Church. When but nineteen years
of age he was ordained to the ministry of this church and continued to preach, lecture, and organize churches until
he began the study of medicine. He still continues his ministerial work although not actively. Dr. Gilbert officiated
as clergyman of this church in Fall River for four years. At this time he also studied land surveying under Jesse
W. Nichols. He first took up the study of medicine under Dr. John H. Jackson with whom he studied for some time.
Later he spent two years at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Boston, and one year in the medical department
of the University of Vermont where he received his medical degree in 1886. In the same year he began practice at
his present location on Pleasant street, Fall River, and has met with most encouraging success. He is a member
of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the American Medical Association; past chancellor of Mt. Vernon Lodge
No. 57, Knights of Pythias, and a prominent member of the Sons of St. George, in which order he now holds the office
of major in the Uniformed Rank. When a young man of seventeen he served one hundred days in the fall of 1864 in
the 21st Unattached Company, M. V. M., and was prevented from re enlistment by disability incurred in the field.
He is a member of Richard Borden Post No. 46, G. A. R., in which he has held the office of chaplain, surgeon and
junior vice commander. Since 1894 Dr. Gilbert has held the chair of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons at Boston, attending to his duties as a lecturer in connection with his professional
work in Fall River. He was one of the city physicians of Fall River for three years. January 2, 1870, he married
Elizabeth, daughter of John McKee of Fall River. Four children have been born to them, two of whom survive: Susan
Elizabeth and Milton John.
From:
Our county and its people
A descriptive and biographical history of
Bristol County, Massachusetts
Prepaired and published under the auspices of
The Fall River News and The Taunton Gasette
With assistance of Hon. Alanson Borden
The Boston History Company, Publishers, 1899.
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