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James Read Chadwick was born on November 2, 1844 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Christopher Chadwick, a merchant of English extraction, who married a daughter of James Read (1789 - 1870).
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James Read Chadwick was born on November 2, 1844 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Christopher Chadwick, a merchant of English extraction, who married a daughter of James Read (1789 - 1870).
He graduated from Harvard College in 1865, and from the Harvard Medical School in 1871.
After a few years of study in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and London, he returned to Boston and began the practise of a then newly-developed department of medicine, gynecology. In 1876, with his father-in-law, he played an important part in the organization of the American Gynecological Society and served as its secretary for seven years; in 1897 he was president. He was largely instrumental in the publication of the early volumes of the annual Transactions. Although Chadwick was greatly interested in the practise of medicine, he was at heart a booklover. In the early days he arranged the books in the library and did all the cataloguing. Aided by an exceptional memory, he succeeded in obtaining volumes missing from many important sets of medical journals. His "want book" was always with him in his travels in this country and abroad, and it made him a familiar figure in bookshops and libraries throughout the world. He also began an excellent collection of pamphlets, autographs, paintings, and photographs. His generosity in exchanging books and journals was one of his striking characteristics and served to make his name well-known and popular in all important medical libraries. Chadwick was active in other fields as well. His bibliography contains over sixty titles, dealing largely with gynecology, medical libraries, and cremation. Among his publications are a translation of Winckel's Puerperal Fever; a translation of two early works of J. D. Schoepff (1874 - 75); a study of Schoepff's life (1905); his papers on the Boston Medical Library (1876, 1896, 1899) and the Life of James Read (1905). He was a good public speaker and debater and made numerous addresses throughout the country on medical libraries and on cremation.
He assisted in the foundation of the gynecological department of the Boston City Hospital (1874) and for many years taught this specialty to the students of the Harvard Medical School. He established, with the help of a few friends, the Boston Medical Library in 1875, and served as the librarian from its inception up to the time of his death. He founded the Harvard Medical Alumni Association in 1890 and for three years served as its president. Always interested in the subject of cremation, in 1892 he reorganized the decadent New England Cremation Society, assisted in the building of a model crematory and chapel near Boston, and in later years was president of the Massachusetts Cremation Society.
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Chadwick was artistic, even Bohemian, in temperament, generous, kind, and sympathetic, but when necessity demanded, he could be sufficiently combative to obtain a point that seemed of importance to him. He had a strong sense of the joy of living, and an equally strong sense of the joy of labor.
Quotes from others about the person
He is perhaps best described by Oliver Wendell Holmes, as the "untiring, imperturbable, tenacious, impressible, all-subduing agitator, who neither rested nor let others rest until the success of the library project was assured. "
Chadwick married Katherine, daughter of Dr. George H. Lyman.
