Arthur Everett Austin, Sr.
Arthur Everett Austin, Sr. (April 11, 1861 - August 22, 1938) was a research physician in Boston, Massachusetts, and Europe.
Austin was born on April 11, 1861 in Boston, Massachusetts, as the son of David Farnum Austin and Mary Josephine Weaver. When he was eight years old, his family moved from Boston to Readfield, Maine, near his father's rural childhood home. Austin attended high school in Augusta and in 1833 he graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, where he was an exceptional student and a track-and-field champion. After a year as principal of Somerset Academy in Athens, Maine, he entered Harvard Medical School, earned his M.D. in 1887, took an advanced degree at the University of Berlin, and then had further training in Heidelberg and Vienna. In 1891, soon after returning to Boston, he married and buried himself in his teaching and research after her death from kidney disease in 1893. He joined the faculty of the new Tufts Medical School in 1893. He traveled to Berlin, Germany in 1895, where he was on leave from the faculty and teaching at the University of Berlin, where he attended the 1896 Athens Olympic Games.
After he returned to the United States, he married for a second time in 1899 and raised his only son, who became a prominent figure in Hartford, Connecticut art. On August 22, 1938, Austin died in Hartford, Connecticut. He was buried in his childhood hometown of Belgrade, Maine.
Family[]
Austin married first to Louise Bunker in 1891. She died of kidney disease in 1893.
Austin married second to Laura Ann Etnier on June 6, 1899 at the Holland House Hotel in New York City.
- Arthur Everett Austin, Jr. - m. Helen Goodwin