Background
Farnell, Frederic James was born on January 14, 1885 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Son of George and M. Elizabeth (Topham) Farnell.
Farnell, Frederic James was born on January 14, 1885 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Son of George and M. Elizabeth (Topham) Farnell.
Doctor of Medicine Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1908. Honorary Master of Business Administration, Bryant and Stratton College Business Administration.
Settled in Providence, 1911. Clinical professor psychiatry, New York Medical College. Assistant psychiatrist, Psychiatry Department, Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital.
Associate attending neuro-psychiatrist, Metropolitan Hospital, New York, attending neurologist, historian, from 1944.
Attending neurologist Murray Hill Hospital, New York City. Visiting neuro-psychiatrist, Saint Vincent’s Hospital, New Brighten, Staten Island
Psychiatrist Rhode Island Eastern State Hospital for Mental Diseases. Has served as psychiatrist or neurologist to Providence City Hospital, Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Newport Hospital, French Hospital (Pawtucket, Rhode Island), public schools of Providence, et cetera
Assistant in research, neuro-pathology, Mount Sinai Hospital, 1945-1947.
Consultant neuro-psychiatric, United States Veterans Bureau, District 4. Chief neurology and therapist in psychiatry, Jamaica Center for Psychotherapy, 1958. Attending staff Gracie Square Hospital, New York City.
Courtsey staff neuro-psychiatry Medical Arts Center, New York City, Past chairman, Rhode Island State Public Welfare Commission.
Chairman of Commission on special legislation on prision labor, National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor. Formerly member of the board of directors American Prison Association member of the board of National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor.
Qualified psychiatrist New York State Board Psychological Examiners, Mental Hygiene. Diplomate in neurology and psychiatry.
Member of the board of National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor. Qualified psychiatrist New York State Board Psychological Examiners, Mental Hygiene. Diplomate in neurology and psychiatry.
Member American advisory council, Euthanasia Society of America.
Member New York Academy of Medicine, International Psychoanalytic Society, New York Psychoanalytic Society (ex-president), American College Physicians (governor), Rhode Island Society for Mental Hygiene (director and Executive Committee), Rhode Island Medical Association, American Neurological Association, National Committee of Mental Hygiene, New York Academy Sciences. Member Medico-Psychological Society of Paris.
Member Young Men's Council of the United States. Member Eugene Field Literature Society Patron Smithsonian Institute (science).
Married Jessie Worrell, December 23, 1909 (divorced). Married second, Eva May Edgett, January 25, 1939. Children: F. Richard, Marjorie East. (deceased).