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| Seven Generations of Doctors | |||||||||
| 1. Doctor Edward Flint, son of Col. Thomas Flint, was born in 1733 at Concord, Massachusetts and was the first of seven generations of doctors in the Flint family who became internationally famous for their contributions to medicine. He studied under Dr. Simon Tufts for four and a half years, then served as surgeon in Col. Ruggles' regiment at the battle against Fort Ticonderoga in 1755. He served as army surgeon again in 1775 at Cambridge during the siege of Boston in General Ward's Regiment. Edward died in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, in November of 1818. | |||||||||
| 2a. Dr. John Flint, the youngest son of the aforementioned Edward, was born in 1779 in Shrewsbury, Massachusets. He studied medicine under his father in Dr. Flint's School of Medicine and established his practice in Petersham. John contracted spotted fever and brought it home to his family while doctoring patients. He and all but one of his children died of the disease in 1810. After his death, his wife vowed that her one remaining son would become follow in his father's footsteps and become a doctor one day. | |||||||||
| 3a. Dr. John Flint Jr. went to Medical College and became a practicing physician as his mother had vowed. He was a hard-working physician in Boston for fifty years until his death in 1876. | |||||||||
| 2b. The eldest son of Dr. Edward Flint (1) was Dr. Austin Flint, born in 1760. Austin studied medicine under his father (Dr. Flint's School of Medicine in Shrewsbury) and set up his first practice in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. He moved to Leicester in 1783 where he practiced for over forty years, becoming a prominent physician and receiving an honorary degree from Harvard College. He carried on his practice until his retirement when he turned it over to his son, Edward, in 1831. | |||||||||
| 3b. Dr. Edward Flint was the second son of Dr. Austin Flint (who died at the age of 90). He studied medicine with his father and established his own practice in Leicester in 1811 before taking over his father's larger practice in 1831. | |||||||||