Title	Mr.
Last Name	Rand
First Name	George H
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Place of Birth	Ripley, ME
Date of Birth	1876-10-05
Place of Death	North Livermore, ME
Date of Death	1952-08-00
Publication	The Eastern Gazette 8-28-1952 pg 7
Obituary	Ripley Native Dies in Livermore Falls Dr. George H Rand, a native of Ripley, who had become one of the leading citizens and practicing physicians in Livermore Falls, died recently at his summer home at Round Pond, North Livermore. His sister, Mrs. Nellie Rand Phipps, once taught in the Haseltine School on the Dover road in Dexter. Dr. Rand was born in Ripley, Oct. 5, 1876, the son of George H. and Fidelia Stone Rand. He graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1900 and was a member of the American Medical Association and the Maine Medical Association and received from the latter in 1950, a 50-year medical award. He was a member of the Franklin Memorial Hospital staff at Farmington and had been plant physician at the International Paper Company since 1927. During his more than fifty years of medical practice he ushered into his community more than three thousand babies. Dr. Rand was very active in civic, fraternal and community circles being a member of the Masonic bodies, the Eastern Star and the Mystic Shrine. He was reverently religious and was an ardent and enthusiastic member of Eaton Memorial Methodist Church. He made his church his chief interest, aside fro his profession and was director of his church choir for 47 years. He served on the official board of the church ad was a member of the board of trustees. He possessed a splendid musical voice and conducted the local unit of the Maine Music Festival Chorus for many years. He served as chairman of the local Board of Heath and as a member of the School Committee and the Republican Town Committee, and was a man of unlimited ability and seeming inexhaustible vitality. He was a very devoted family man but still found time to maintain and unselfish interest in youth, conducting for many years a class of young men in religious education, which he always call "his boys" He is survived by his widow, the former Grace Ham; two sons, George H. Rand, Jr. of Niagara Falls, N.Y., and John Rand of Livermore Falls; two daughters, Miss Elizabeth Rand, assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H. and Mrs. Vincent Davis of Farmington; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Smith of Sanford, Mrs. Annabelle Ramsdell of Auburn and Nellie Phipps of Toronto, Ont.; also five grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.