1826-1900
Adoniram Judson Billings
Physician/Public Servant Maine ME
Ann Hasseltine Judson died in 1826 not long after her husband had been released from a Burmese prison to help negotiate treaties between the British and the Burmans. Little Adoniram Judson Billings was born later that same year in Newport, Maine, December 3, 1826, and was named by his father John Billings. The young Billings lad attended Colby University at Waterville, Maine, studied medicine at Bowdoin Medical College in Brunswick but eventually received his degree from Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, in 1854. He established his medical practice in Freedom, Maine, in 1864 where he lived the remainder of his life until his passing in 1900.
Dr. Adoniram Judson Billings was president of the Waldo County Medical Society and during the Civil War was surgeon of the Nineteenth Maine Volunteer Militia. In 1864 he was appointed surgeon of the Board of Enrollment of the fifth congressional district (meaning he checked and approved the physical condition of soldiers entering the military). Appointed by President William Henry Harrison, Dr. Billings was on the board of examining surgeons for pensions (meaning he checked and approved the physical condition of those applying for pensions). Politically he was a Republican serving in 1862 and 1868 as the representative to the general court and in 1866-67 as a state senator. In 1871-74 Dr. Billings was Maine’s surgeon-general as well as inspector of prisons in 1873. In 1897 he elected to the state senate again.
He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Masonic fraternity and the Congregational Church in Freedom, Maine. Dr. Adoniram Judson Billings had two daughters by this first wife, Ann E. Clement. He lived with his second wife, Lucinda M. Bellows, until his death in Freedom, Maine, February 6, 1900.[1]
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[1] Adoniram Judson Billings, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clement-1458