Dr. James Jackson Putnam

Dr. James Jackson Putnam

• Dr. Putnam's Wikipedia Page
• Find A Grave Memorial ID # 136980079
• The James Jackson Putnam Papers at Harvard University

Dr. Putnam was the son of Charles Gideon Putnam and Elizabeth Cabot Jackson Putnam. Born in Boston, he graduated from Harvard University in 1866 and Harvard Medical School in 1870. He interned at Massachusetts General Hospital, studying neurology in Leipzig, Vienna, and London. In 1872, Putnam started one of the first neurological clinics in the United States and later became president of the American Neurological Society. He became a lecturer at Harvard Medical School in 1874 and a professor from 1893 to 1912. In 1905, he published A Memoir of James Jackson, his grandfather. Putnam married Marion Cabot, the daughter of Francis and Louisa Higginson Cabot, in 1886.