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Rust, William Appleton

physician, druggist, legislator, was born June 22, 1823, in Gorham, Maine. He attended the Gorham academy, Maine Medical school, and in 1846 graduated at the New York university. He has been trustee of the Maine State Reform school; member of the Massachusetts house of representatives, and a member of the Boston school board. He has been a trustee of the city hospital; a director of the Metropolitan railroad; for twenty-five years a director of the Blackstone National bank; and vice-president of the Penny Savings bank.

For eighteen years he practiced medicine with success, and since 1865 has been a successful wholesale druggist of Boston.