Forrest W. Pike, M.D. of Portsmouth, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915) Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Louise Temples - pc_genie@ix.netcom.com Copyright. All rights reserved. ************************************************************************ Full copyight notice - http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm USGenWeb Archives - http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915 Page 866 FORREST W. PIKE, M. D., who has been engaged in medical and surgical practice in Portsmouth since 1903, having an office and resi- dence at No. 16 Pleasant Street, was born in Massachusetts, April 24, 1864, a son of John B. and Mary J. (Wiley) Pike. He was educated in the public schools, including the high school, and later entered the medical department of the University of Vermont, from which he was graduated M. D. in 1890. After taking a post graduate course in the New York Post Graduate School he began the practice of his profes- sion in Massachusetts, thence, in 1895 removing to Greenland, N. H., and afterwards to Portsmouth, as above narrated. He belongs to the Portsmouth Medical Society and the Massachusetts Medical Associa- tion, and fraternally is affiliated with the Masons, Redmen and Odd Fel- lows. In politics he is independent, preferring to vote for honest and capable men rather than be bound by strict party lines. He has been successful in his profession and enjoys a wide personal popularity.