Elmer Ernest Southard

Elmer Ernest Southard was an American neuropsychiatrist, neuropathologist, professor and author. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Southard lived in the city for nearly his entire life. He attended Boston Latin School and completed his education at Harvard University. At Harvard, Southard distinguished himself as a chess player. After briefly studying in Germany, he returned to the United States as a pathologist at Danvers State Hospital. Southard held academic appointments at Harvard University and its medical school.

Southard was born in Boston in 1876 to Martin Southard and Olive Wentworth Knowles. His paternal ancestors included Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony leader Myles Standish. Olive Southard was descended from early residents of New Hampshire and Maine. Frederick Parker Gay, one of E. E. Southards longtime friends and his posthumous biographer, wrote that Southards parents were only modestly successful academically. His mother was a schoolteacher for several years his father, who supervised a cottonwaste factory and established a trucking business, earned enough money to ensure that Southard did not have to work during his undergraduate and graduate studies.

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