Dr. Algernon Coolidge (1830-1912)

He was born in Boston and educated in Geneva (Switzerland) and at Harvard University (M.D., 1853). He furthered his medical education by then studying in Vienna (Austria). During the Civil War, he was Assistant-Surgeon at the military hospital near Fort Monroe, Virginia, and was Surgeon for the U.S. Sanitary Commission. After the war he returned to Boston where he practised medicine. In 1856, he married Mary Lowell and had five children. He is not to confused with his son, Dr Algernon Coolidge Jr., who became Professor of Laryngology at Harvard etc.