Philo Judson Farnsworth was born in
Westford, Vermont on Jarnuary 9, 1830. He graduated from the
University of Vermont in 1854, and at its medical department in 1858. He practised at
Philipsburg,
Canada, until 1860, in which year he received a second medical degree from the
New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was in
Lyons, Iowa, in 1862-66, then went to
Clinton, Iowa, and in 1870 was elected to the chair of materia medica and diseases of children in the
University of Iowa. ==References==