American physician

William Michael Edward Mellen (April 6, 1848 – May 14, 1906) was an American physician and politician who served as the fourth Mayor of Chicopee, M*achusetts.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Education
• 3 Medical career
• 4 Family life
• 5 Death
• 6 Bibliography
• 7 Footnotes

Early life

Mellen was born in Worcester, M*achusetts.

Education

Mellen received his medical diploma from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1876.

Medical career

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

Family life

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

Death

Mellen died in Chicopee, M*achusetts of a cerebral hemorrhage, on May 14, 1906.

Bibliography

• A Digest of the Acts of the Commonwealth Relating to the M*achusetts Medical Society: Together with the By-laws & Rules & Orders of the Society & Councillors, Boston, M*achusetts: M*achusetts Medical Society, page 24, (1881).
• M*achusetts 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 *ociation of the University of Michigan, p.:443, (June 1906).

Footnotes