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Dr William Francis Channing

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Dr William Francis Channing

Birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
19 Mar 1901 (aged 81)
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
Story Chapel Colum, Lot: Col 4, Site: B, Grave: 1
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Inventor who patented a portable electro-magnetic telegraph (1877), an electric fire alarm (1857), a ship railway (1866) and a telephone (1877) that he sold to Alexander Graham Bell.

Letter to Alexander Graham. Bell, July 30, 1877 in Library of Congress. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/magbell.29700212

Author of "Notes on the Medical Application of Electricity" 1849.

Graduated Harvard University - 1839
Graduate University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - 1844

Married Susan Elizabeth Burdick in Nantucket, Massachusetts on July 31, 1850 and divorced her on June 7, 1859. Married second wife Mary Jane Tarr on October 5, 1859. They moved to Pasadena, California in 1885, "for the benefit of her health." She died in Pasadena on January 2, 1897. He lived in California until six months before his death in 1900 when he returned to Boston.

Cousin of William Henry Channing, Chaplain of the United States Senate.

Died at Perry Hospital in Boston of pneumonia.
Inventor who patented a portable electro-magnetic telegraph (1877), an electric fire alarm (1857), a ship railway (1866) and a telephone (1877) that he sold to Alexander Graham Bell.

Letter to Alexander Graham. Bell, July 30, 1877 in Library of Congress. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/magbell.29700212

Author of "Notes on the Medical Application of Electricity" 1849.

Graduated Harvard University - 1839
Graduate University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - 1844

Married Susan Elizabeth Burdick in Nantucket, Massachusetts on July 31, 1850 and divorced her on June 7, 1859. Married second wife Mary Jane Tarr on October 5, 1859. They moved to Pasadena, California in 1885, "for the benefit of her health." She died in Pasadena on January 2, 1897. He lived in California until six months before his death in 1900 when he returned to Boston.

Cousin of William Henry Channing, Chaplain of the United States Senate.

Died at Perry Hospital in Boston of pneumonia.


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