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Franklin C. Weeks, M.D.

5/30/2022

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Chester's Civil War Heroes

FRANKLIN CHRISTOPHER WEEKS, M.D.
1835 - 1864
Assistant Surgeon
​14th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry
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Graduated from Dartmouth Medical College, Class of 1858

Asst. Superintendent at the Vermont Asylum for the Insane, Brattleboro, VT, from 1858 to 1862.
Employed at Manhattan Asylum for the Insane in New York City, 1862.

Returned home to enlist, on 16 Sept 1862, and was commissioned Asst. Surgeon of the 14th NH on the 23rd

En route to New Orleans in March 1864, following a furlough back home, he took cold while passing through New York.

He died from diphtheria at the New England Soldiers' Relief Association Hospital, New York City, on 28 March 1864. His body was returned home for burial in the Village Cemetery.
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