Physician/Surgeon
Centurion, 1895–1902
Born 13 May 1820 in Claremont, New Hampshire
Died 17 March 1902 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery
, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Proposed by George S. Greene and Edward H. Peaslee
Elected 2 February 1895 at age seventy-four
Century Memorial
Dr. J. Baxter Upham, though he was at one time connected as consulting physician with the hospital service of the city, had retired from the practice of his profession when he removed hither in 1880 from Boston, where he had won an honorable rank. He was of New Hampshire birth, a graduate of Dartmouth as well as of the Harvard Medical School, in 1842 and 1848, respectively. He studied, also, in London, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Paris. He acquired reputation in the study and treatment of typhus and other fevers, in the application at an early date of ether as an anæsthetic, and in the ingenious use of electricity for registering the phenomena of physical experiments. During the Civil War he was Surgeon under General Burnside, in whose ill-starred campaigns he saw much arduous service. In 1867, he was a delegate to the first International Medical Congress in Paris. Like many another physician of The Century, he had marked musical tastes, and in Boston was for many years the President of the Handel and Hadyn [Haydn] Society.
Edward Cary
1903 Century Association Yearbook