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 Walter Chnnning's mother, Ellen Kil- 

 shaw Fuller, daughter of Hon. Timothy 

 Fuller and sister of Margaret Fuller 

 (Counters Ossolt), died when he was 

 seven years old and from that time he 

 lived much with his grandfather, Walter 

 Channing, woh was a Boston physician 

 end (lean of the Harvard Medical School. 

 Ii. Jived, too, in the family of Colonel 

 Thomas Wentwui'th Hissinson, who was 

 his cousin and his uncle by marriage, as 

 well, and also lived in the family of 

 Bichard F. Fuller, the Boston lawyer. 



The great-grandfather of Dr. Chan- 

 ning. William Channing, who rendered 

 distinguished service as attorney general 

 •f Rhode Island, married a daughter of 

 William Ellery, a Rhode Island Elgner 

 of tire Declaration of Independence. 



Dr. Channing was educated at the 

 Chauncy Hall School, Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons in New Tork, also the Har- 

 vard Medical School <M. D., 1872), and the 

 Massachusetts General Hospital, as an in- 

 terne, as well as in Vienna. He then served 

 as assistant physician of the Asylum for 

 Insane Criminals, New York, and as first 

 assistant physician of the Insane Hospital 

 at Danvers. His knowledge of a "ranch 

 of medical science then unpopulur with 

 physicians, and in which little progress had 

 been made, became known in a compara- 

 tively short time. 



In 1879 he opened a "hospital," as it 

 was then called, in Brookline, which he 

 carried on during the rest of his lite. In 

 1916 Dr. Channing built in Wellesley a 

 now sanitarium. In which he was able to 

 carry Into effect many ideas which ho had 

 formulated, as to the proper treatment -* 

 curable cases. 



In addition to Ids work as consultant, 

 Dr. Channing frequently testified in court 

 cases as an alienist. One of his early ap- 

 pearances as an expert witness wag in the 

 trial of Guiteau, the assassin of President 

 Dr. Channing read many papers and 

 ho contributed to the various medical 

 journals a largo number of articles 



duite var'.ed subjects. 



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