Another Doctor in the Family
Obituary (From The Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1924, vol. 14, pg. 546-547)
Dr. C. E. Sugden died May 12 at his home, 336 Maplewood Avenue, Winnipeg, aged fifty-three. He was born in Stratford, Ontario, but in 1882 the family moved to Winnipeg. He was educated in the Winnipeg schools, attended medical colleges in Minneapolis and Chicago and graduated in 1904. In 1905 he was house surgeon in Minneapolis City Hospital and practiced in Alexandria, Minn. in 1906 and 1907. He returned to Winnipeg in 1908, and was associated in practice with the late Dr. C.W. Clarke. He was a member of the Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba and a member of the Dominion Medical Council. From the inception of Grace Hospital he was medical superintendent, and the growth of that institution was due in some measure to his constant care and thoughtfulness. He is survived by his two daughters and a son.
Charles Edward (C.E.) Sugden was a son of Susannah Sibbald and Noah Sugden. Susannah was Matilda Sibbald Mayberry’s younger sister. That makes Charles a first cousin to T.R. Mayberry and C.A. Mayberry of Oxford County, Ontario and first cousin to Ben French, Jr. of Cloud County, Kansas.
Charles appears in the 1901 census in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with wife, Kate D.S., and step-children James and Isabel. I have yet to find a marriage record for him. He reported in this census that he was a medical doctor and made $1500 a year.
His obituary says that he went to school in Minneapolis and Chicago, graduating in 1904. Even using the most conservative relative value calculator, he was making a very nice living in 1901. The fact that he went back to school to get his degree could be because of new laws passed related to the amount of training a medical doctor needed to keep practicing as a doctor. It is interesting to note that when he returned to Winnipeg after graduating, he is listed in the Winnipeg directory as a homeopathic M.D. He practiced in Winnipeg until his death in 1924.
Dr. Sugden’s lineage: (Charles, Susannah Sugden, Lydia Sibbald, John, Alexander Douglass)