It was with Dr.
Bancroft that I continued by studies in Latin. In 1835, he had
finished his professional studies with Dr. Shattuck, of Boston, then
an eminent physician. Dr. Shattuck had studied his profession with Dr.
Amos Bancroft, the father of Amos B. Dr. Amos, as he was called, was
a graduate of Harvard College in the class of Wendell Phillips, and at
the close of his professional studies he was spoken of as the best
educated physician who had entered the profession in Boston. At the
time our acquaintance began, he was entering upon the practice of
medicine, at Groton, in place of his father, who was then about sixty-
five years of age, deaf, and not healthy in other respects, although he
lived to the age of eighty years, and then died from an accident in
State Street, Boston. Dr. Bancroft, Sr., lived in a house which stood
about one hundred feet north of my present residence, and the office of
Dr. Amos was on the spot now occupied by the front of my house. At the
close of business for the day, nine o'clock in the evening, I was in
the habit of going to the office and reciting my Latin lesson, after
which we discussed other matters. Upon my return to the store, I
prepared myself for the next evening's recitation. In this way I read
Caesar and Virgil. In a closet in Bancroft's office there was a
skeleton.
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