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WOODBURY, James Francis (2696)

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Birth

  • Born on January 26, 1853 in Wilmot, Annapolis Co., NS

Death

  • Died on February 05, 1922 in Halifax, Halifax Regional Municipality, NS
  • Buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Middleton, Annapolis Co., NS

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Notes

  • Occupation: Dentist
  • Death: Cardiac Dilation
  • Obituary: Dr. Frank Woodbury Died, at his home in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, February 5, 1922, of heart trouble, in his seventieth year. Frank Woodbury, D.D.S., L.L.D. Dr. Woodbury was born January 26, 1853, at Wilmot Spa Springs, Annapolis, County, Nova Scotia, the son of Francis and Elizabeth (Congdon) Woodbury. He obtained his early education in the public schools of Nova Scotia and at Mt. Allison University, New Brunswick. After serving an apprenticeship under Dr. I. Perkins, Amesbury, Mass., for several years, he entered the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, from which institution he received the D.D.S. degree in 1878. Immediately after graduation Dr. Woodbury established himself in practice in Babylon, N.Y., but in 1884 removed to Halifax where he continued to practice until the time of his death. Dr. Woodbury became most widely known throughout the province of Nova Scotia as a skillful dentist and soon established a high class practice. His able and forceful personality won for him recognition in various dental professional groups and organizations, and led to his selection as a dean of the Dalhousie Dental College, of which he was one of the founders and with which he was associated in the capacity of dean until his death. Dr. Woodbury delightful personality won for him innumerable friends among the citizens of Halifax and elsewhere, as well as in the dental profession in Canada and the United States. No one could meet him without being impressed by his alertness of mind, the almost boyish eagerness and vitality of his spirit; and the more one knew him, the more those qualities impressed one. Unsparing of his own best efforts to attain the best in professional skills, and in work in the church and community, he expected other to maintain the same high standards, and to lend their utmost efforts to reach them. As one who knew him well says, he despised inefficiency. And the very loftiness of the aim which he set for himself, the very keenness and tirelessness with which he pursued it, and, it may be added, the very success which he attained, in his profession and outside it, made him critical, made him at times, perhaps severely critical of people who he believed to be failing, either professionally or personally through lack of high ideals or through lack of energy to reach them. The one great interest of Dr. Woodbury life outside his work was the religious education of the young through the agency of Sunday School. In this and in all evangelical activity he was eminently successful; for his earnestness had no trace of bigotry, and he was charitable without any lowering of his standards. Dr. Woodbury was one of the founders of the Dominion Dental Council and its fourth president. He was a member of the National Dental Association of the United States; a member of the American Institute of Dental Teachers; a member of the Canadian Dental Association; a member of the Provincial Dental Board of Nova Scotia; vice-president of the American Institute Archaeology, Halifax. In 1919 the L.L.D. degree was conferred upon him by the Dalhousie University, Halifax. Dr. Woodbury was married October 10, 1880, to Miss Jessie Blanche Troop, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, who with two sons, Frank Valentine Woodbury, M.D. and Carl Fairfield Woodbury, D.D.S., survives him. His remains were interred in the Middleton, Cemetery, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, February 7th. Source: The Dental Cosmos: A Monthly Record of Dental Science ..., Volume 64, Issues 1-6,

Sources

  • Nova Scotia Deaths: Book 73 Pg. 541
  • Annapolis Cemetery Records: Middleton Pine Grove Cemetery #400

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