Elmer Ellsworth Lake, M.D., Biography from History of Rockingham County, NH
From: Bill Prokasy - wprokasy@arches.uga.edu

Surname: LAKE
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1173

   ELMER ELLSWORTH LAKE, M. D., a popular physician and sur-
geon of Hampstead, was born at East Haverhill, Mass., December 10, 18?3,
a son of Albert and Eunice {Duff) Lake. After graduating from the high
school he prepared himself for college by studying under a private tutor and by
home study evenings. Then, in 1887, he entered the university of Vermont,
where he was graduated from the medical department in 1891, being vice
president of the graduating class. He was also president of the Alpha Delta
Sigma of the medical department in 1890-91. He began the practice of
his profession in Hampstead in 1891, and has remained here since with the
exception of two years. which he spent in Haverhill; Mass., returning to
Hampstead on account of sickness in his family. In 1912 he took the Massa-
chusetts state examination, passing with the rank of eighty-seven.
   In May, 1895, Dr. Lake married Mary E. Lake of Sandown, N. H., and
he and his wife are the parents of four children-Vida A., Albert C.. Eunice
and Maurice E. Dr. Lake belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
including the Encampment and the Rebekahs; also to the Knights of Pythias,
the Grange, Daughters of America and the Junior Order of American
Mechanics, and is an honorary member of G. A. R. Post No.47 of Haver-
hill. Mass. He has served the town of Hampstead efficiently as a member of
the school board and the board of health.

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