The Biographical Dictionary of America/Atwood, Charles Edwin

ATWOOD, Charles Edwin, physician, was born at Shoreham, Vt., July 21, 1861, a lineal descendant of Capt. John Parker, the first patriot soldier to fall at Lexington in the American Revolution. He was taken to Ithaca, N. Y., at an early age, where he was graduated at Cornell university in 1879. He received his M. D. degree from the Bellevue Hospital medical college in 1881. He was appointed assistant physician to the Hudson River state hospital at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1884. In 1887 he was transferred to the Utica state hospital, and in 1892 received the appointment of physician in charge of the male department of the Bloomingdale asylum, the insane department of the New York Hospital. Dr. Atwood was for over four years associate editor of the American Journal of Insanity. He became a member of the American social science association, associate member of the American medico psychological association, clinical assistant in the department of neurology at the Vanderbilt clinic of the Columbia college of physicians and surgeons, and served as an expert in medico-legal cases in the New York courts.