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No one could have been shown more attention and whose wants administered to with more willingness than was Dr. Gerrish during his recent sickness, by his niece, the nurse and Dr. Quincy.
In his practice, he occasionally was engaged in a desperate case when he recommended, and apparently gave, medicine generally not so well known, but which proved to be a "life saver."
He had executed a will within his "last days," bequeathing his entire estate to a certain adult niece from New Hampshire, who had become his housekeeper, but as soon as he told of what he had prepared for her, she declared she would not accept it. "That she preferred the good will of his and her relatives, over his entire estate," the amount of which was a "princely sum". Therefore he destroyed the prepared document and the estate descended to a multitude of scattered heirs, most of them unknown to him.
Within his latter years he erected a portion of the present brick apartment facing the library and park and occupied same for his home and office. He passed away within the first few years of the present century.
Go to Alfred A. Gerrish, "Pioneer History Index," for further information.
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