• Had a very generous nature • Remembered as a relaxed and humble man who worked hard • Worked well with other doctors and had a great skill for delivering babies • Could sleep any where at anytime • Grand children; Jeffery Hamill, Jo-Anna Medve, and Christy Hamill • Great grand-children; Emma Hamill, Jordan and Miranda Medve The Biography of Frank • Large baby when born • Youngest child in the family of 6 • Full name; Frank Cyril Hamill • Sisters; Lulu, Alice, and Edna • Not fond of school as a young child • Suffered from croup as a child • Started thinking about entering the medical field at age 14 • Didn't have many friends • Found book learning difficult • Found lab work fascinating • Brother Harry graduated from Medical school almost 10 years earlier and had gone to Manitoba to practice; victim of diabetes; died at age 32 • Graduated University in 1922 • Arrived in Blind River in 1923 • Went to work for Dr Robb; McFadden-Malloy contract • Possessed patience and cool resistance • Returned to Toronto in 1924 for further training • Internship at the hospital for Sick Children in Toronto 1924-25 • In 1928 moved to his new room on the 3rd floor of the hospital • Received $50/month salary from Dr. Robb • Worked in the hospital or went to the patients homes • Went to work in Ottawa at a clinic for diabetics and arthritics but returned to Blind River in 1935 • Never left again to work • Small in size 5 foot 4