Charles Baum

Physician; born at Lafayette Hill, Montgomery County, Pa., Jan. 1, 1855. He was educated at York County Academy and the Pennsylvania College, and took up the study of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated as M.D., and began medical practice in 1877, and in 1878 he received from the University the degree of Ph.D. Immediately afterward he was appointed surgical assistant at the Pennsylvania Hospital, remaining connected with this institution till 1888, and serving also as resident physician; in 1878 he was appointed attending physician at the Northern Home for Friendless Children, and was also for a time connected in various capacities with the Northern Dispensary, the Episcopal Hospital, and other institutions. In addition to his private practice, Dr. Baum has frequently been engaged as a medical and surgical expert by the Philadelphia and Reading and the Atlantic City Railroads, the Union Traction Company, and the Delaware Ferry Companies. He has made valuable contributions to medical literature, and assisted Dr. Agnew in the preparation of his great work on Surgery. For twelve years also he was a private assistant to Dr. Agnew, by whom he was highly appreciated. Dr. Baum is a fellow of the College of Physicians, and a member of the County and the State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association. Address: 1828 Wallace St., Philadelphia.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, p. 47.

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