William M. E. Mellen

William Michael Edward Mellen[4] (April 6, 1848 – May 14, 1906) was an American physician and politician who served as the fourth Mayor[3] of Chicopee, Massachusetts.[3]

William Michael Edward Mellen
4th Mayor
of Chicopee, Massachusetts[1]
In office
1894–1894
President of the
Board of Aldermen of Chicopee, Massachusetts[1]
Member of the
Board of Aldermen of Chicopee, Massachusetts[1]
Member of the
Chicopee, Massachusetts
School Board[1]
Personal details
BornApril 6, 1848[1]
DiedMay 14, 1906[2]
Chicopee, Massachusetts[2]
NationalityAmerican
Political partyDemocratic[1]
Spouse(s)Kate M. Burke, m. 1883[1]
Alma materUniversity of Michigan Medical School, 1876[1][3]
ProfessionPhysician[1][3]

Early life

Mellen was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.[1]

Education

Mellen received his medical diploma[3] from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1876.[1][3]

Medical career

After he graduated from medical school Mellen practiced medicine in Northampton, Massachusetts for a year,[1] then in Chicopee, Massachusetts from 1878 until his death in May 1906.[1] In 1880 Mellen was admitted as a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society.[4] In 1890 Mellen was chosen a delegate to the Tenth International Medical Congress in Berlin.[1]

Family life

In 1883 Mellen married Kate M. Burke of Chicopee, they had one child, a daughter.[1]

Death

Mellen died in Chicopee, Massachusetts[2] of a cerebral hemorrhage, on May 14, 1906.[2][3]

Bibliography
  • A Digest of the Acts of the Commonwealth Relating to the Massachusetts Medical Society: Together with the By-laws & Rules & Orders of the Society & Councillors, Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Medical Society, page 24, (1881).
  • Massachusetts of Today: A Memorial of the State, Historical and Biographical, Issued for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, page 427, (1892).
  • Medical Record: A weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 69, No. 21., Obituary Notes, New York, New York: WM. WOOD & Co., page 842, (May 26, 1906).
  • Michigan Alumnus, Vol XII, No 115 News-Obituaries, Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, p. 443, (June 1906).

Footnotes
  1. Toomey, Daniel P. (1892), Massachusetts of Today: A Memorial of the State, Historical and Biographical, Issued for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, Boston, Massachusetts: Columbia Publishing Company, p. 437
  2. The Alumni Association. (June 1906), Michigan Alumnus, Vol XII, No 115 News-Obituaries, Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, p. 443
  3. Stedman, Thomas L. (May 26, 1906), Medical Record: A weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 69, No. 21., Obituary Notes, New York, New York: WM. WOOD & Co., p. 842
  4. A Digest of the Acts of the Commonwealth Relating to the Massachusetts Medical Society: Together with the By-laws & Rules & Orders of the Society & Councillors, Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Medical Society, 1881, p. 24
Political offices
Preceded by
H. H. Harris		 4th Mayor
of Chicopee, Massachusetts
1894		 Succeeded by
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