Physician
Centurion, 1905–1946
Born 24 October 1857 in Portland, Maine
Died 19 August 1946 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Turner Centerville Cemetery
, Turner Center, Maine
Proposed by William T. Bull and Francis Davis Millet
Elected 1 April 1905 at age forty-seven
Century Memorial
Royal Whitman. [Born] 1857. Surgeon.
There are many who can walk because Dr. Whitman lived, and I am one of them. He was a truly great orthopedic surgeon and his method of healing hip fractures, in general use for many years, has saved uncounted thousands from lives of helplessness and pain.
When he retired from practice he went to live in England with his wife, to end their days in peace and quiet. Instead, he endured the entire blitz in London and never under any circumstances went to an air raid shelter or otherwise took the slightest notice of the war’s hazards.
After his wife’s death in England, he returned to the United States and came almost every day to the Century. He sometimes played bridge, but usually he read—and to the end of his life he read two books a day.
The Whitmans were State of Maine folks, a family of rugged independence, not much given to talk, and so was our member—a Centurion for forty-one years.
Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia
Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1946 Memorials
