Philo Judson Farnsworth

Philo Judson Farnsworth (January 9, 1830 – February 14, 1909) was an American physician who worked in Iowa.

Biography Philo Judson Farnsworth was born in Westford, Vermont on Jarnuary 9, 1830. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1854, and at its medical department in 1858. He practised at Philipsburg, Canada, until 1860, in which year he received a second medical degree from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was in Lyons, Iowa, in 1862-66, then went to Clinton, Iowa, and in 1870 was elected to the chair of materia medica and diseases of children in the University of Iowa.