Background
Purrington, William Archer was born on December 22, 1852 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of Tobias and Amelia Josephine (Archer) Purrington.
Purrington, William Archer was born on December 22, 1852 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of Tobias and Amelia Josephine (Archer) Purrington.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1873. Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws, Columbian (now George Washington University, 1878. Bachelor of Laws, New York University, 1880.
Consular clerk, Rome, Italy, 1875-1876. Secretary of legation and charge d’affaires ad interim, in Brazil, 1876-1877. Began practice in New York about 1881.
Lecturer on relation of law to medical practice, University of Bellevue Hospital Medical College Author: Christian Science, an Exposition of Mistress Eddy’s Wonderful Discovery.
Collaborator in Allan McLane Hamilton’s A System of Legal Medicine, 1894. Home: New York, New New York
Married Anna C. (Russell) Wheatley, December 31, 1895.