Background
Wiggin, Frederick Holme was born on December 26, 1853 in Kingston-on-Thames, England. Son of Frederick and Elizabeth Sumner (Gerard) Wiggin.
Wiggin, Frederick Holme was born on December 26, 1853 in Kingston-on-Thames, England. Son of Frederick and Elizabeth Sumner (Gerard) Wiggin.
Educated Phillips Andover Academy and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. Doctor of Medicine Bellevue Hospital Medical College (New York University), 1877.
House surgeon, 1877-1878, and adjunct visiting surgeon, 1897-1898, Bellevue Hospital. Attending surgeon Northeastern Dispensary. Practiced medicine at Litchfield, Connecticut, 1880-1890, New York, since 1890.
Examining physical New York Board of Education, 1893-1897.
Visiting gynecologist Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital. Visiting surgeon, 1892-1908, consultant surgeon, since 1908, New York City Hospital Organizer, and president Litchfield (Connecticut) Water Company, 1883-1893, 1894-1897.
President Litchfield County (Connecticut) Medical Society, 1894-1895. Vice president American Medical Association, 1897-1898 (secretary judicial council, 1900-1905).
President New York Company Medical Association, 1899-1900.
Secretary New York State Medical Association, 1900-1901, and president, 1902. Member of council New York Academy Sciences, 1905-1907. Author of many papers on gynecological and surgical subjects.
Member of council New York Academy Sciences, 1905-1907.
Married Abby Fishe Merriam, June 12, 1878. Married second, Christina Ferguson On, March 14, 1907.