Person

Farnsworth, P. J. (Philo Judson), 1832-

1832-1909

Philo Judson Farnsworth was born on January 9, 1832, in Westford, Vermont.

He was an American physician. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1854 and received his medical degree in 1858. He practised at Philipsburg, Canada until 1860. The same year he received a second medical degree from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He worked in Lyons, Iowa (1862-1866), then went to Clinton, Iowa, and in 1870, he was elected to the Chair of Materia medica and children’s diseases at the University of Iowa. He was a member of several medical societies and has contributed frequently to professional journals, chiefly to the Medical and Surgical Reporter of Philadelphia.

In 1862, he married Mary Ford. In 1872, he married Elizabeth B. D. Eaton (1834–1907). He died on February 14, 1909, in Clinton, Iowa.