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Silas Boam MD

We are currently researching the story of Silas Boam MD, born 1845 in Derby, from the mills of Derbyshire, and the factories of Hamilton Ontario and Buffalo NY, to a successful and respected life of doctoring in Topeka, Kansas. But was he qualified to practice medicine?

According to his obituaries, Silas Boam studied medicine after arriving in the United States.

Yet on his 1901 application for a Kansas State practice certificate, he declared that he had studied at the college of Physicians and Surgeons, Birmingham England from 1868 to 1872, and at Buffalo University of Medicine from 1881 to 1883. However we know from Ontario marriage, birth and census records that he was resident in Hamilton in from 1868 to 1871, where he worked as a machinist and later as a provision dealer.

He was in Buffalo in 1879-1883 but working as a machinist.

There is no record of him at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine. The earliest record of him practicing medicine is the 1885 census for Topeka Kansas.

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