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Graves was born on January 29, 1870, in Andover, Massachusetts. His father, William Blair Graves, a descendant of John Graves, an early settler in New Hampshire, was head of the department of science at Phillips Andover Academy; his mother was Luranah Hodges Copeland. William was the second child and eldest son in a family of three children.
Graves received his preliminary education at Phillips Andover Academy and in 1887 entered Yale University. At college he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Record and was a versatile athlete, playing on the football and baseball teams. He decided to study medicine and entered the Harvard Medical School in 1895. In 1899 he was graduated, summa cum laude, at the head of his class. He later received an honorary fellowship in the British College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
In the fall of 1891 Graves became an instructor at the Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and, in addition to teaching, was general athletic director. Except for a year of graduate study at Harvard, he spent the next four years at Hill School. Although at the end of this time he was offered the position of viceprincipal, he decided to pursue a medical carreer. Following a year's internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, he went to Europe, where he studied pathology under in Vienna. In 1902 he became connected with the Free Hospital for Women at Brookline, Massachusetts, and in 1908 was made surgeon-in-chief. This position he held until his retirement on reaching the age limit in 1933. In 1911 he was appointed professor of gynecology in the Harvard Medical School, in which capacity he served until 1932 when he became professor emeritus. He was also consulting physician at the Boston Lying-in Hospital. Graves made many contributions to medical literature, the chief of which was his textbook, Gynecology (1916, 4th ed. , 1928), which was translated into other languages. At the time of his death he was working on the preparation of the fifth edition. This work was one of the leading texts of its period and, beside a fine literary style, was distinguished by the excellence of the many illustrations, most of which were drawn by the author. In the mastery of the technique of medical illustration he showed the influence of Max Brödel of Johns Hopkins, with whom he had studied for a period. In 1931 he published a shorter work, Female Sex Hormonology, an excellent summary of what at the time was a relatively new subject. He was greatly interested in philosophy and psychology, and wrote papers on these subjects. Graves died on January 25, 1933.
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President of the American Gynecological Society, fellow of the American College of Surgeons, fellow of the New England Surgical Society
Graves was a man of many attributes, of wide culture, and of artistic ability.
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Professor Blair Bell referred to Graves as "a man of quiet contemplation, of wise discretion and of sober judgment. "
On October 10, 1900, Graves married Alice M. Chase of Boston; three children were born to them.
