Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray;
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Born: 10/15/10, Pittsfield, MA
Graduated Pittsfield High School, first in class, 1928
Graduated Williams College, Phi Beta Kappa, 1932
M.D. Harvard Medical School, 1936;
Internship Albany Hospital 1936-37;Residency St. Luke’s Hospital, Pittsfield, MA, 1937-38
Marriage to Marion Bastow, July 2, 1938
City Physician, Pittsfield, MA 1938-1942
U.S. Navy, Active Duty, 1942-1946
General Practitioner in Pittsfield, MA 1946-1965
Incapacitating Stroke: August, 1965
Death: April 6, 1982
"My father was the kind of doctor about whom people today often reminisce wistfully, an old fashioned family doctor in all the best senses of this phrase." Read Jennifer Shapp's moving tribute to her father: Download My father Clayton Nesbit
You may contact Mrs. Shapp at: J. Shapp