BIO: Albert Warren Ferris, M.D. ; New York State
surname: Ferris, Gavette

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
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By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

     Albert Warren Ferris, M.D., President of the State Commission in Lunacy,
was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., December 3, 1856. He was graduated from New York
University with the degree of A.B. in 1878, and received from it the degree of
A.M. in 1885. He was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons
(Columbia University) in 1882 with the degree of M.D.

     After serving as medical and surgical interne on the staff of Kings
County General Hospital, Flatbush, L.I., from 1883 to 1885, he was appointed
assistant physician of Stanford Hall, a private institution for the insane, at
Flushing, N.Y. Here he remained as physician in charge from 1885 to 1891. He
was physician in charge of Dr. Choate's House (for the insane) at
Pleasantville, N.Y., in 1893 and again in 1896. He was physician in charge of
Dr. Bond's House (for the insane) in 1904-5 and in 1907.

     Dr. Ferris served as assistant in medicine in Vanderbilt Clinic, College
of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, 1892-5; and as assistant in
Neurology, Columbia University, 1893-1901. He has practiced in New York city
since 1891 making a speciality of nervous diseases and diseases affecting the
mind.

     Dr. Ferris was a staff editor of American Medico-Surgical Bulletin,
1894-6 and Medical Critic, 1901-3. He has been the medical contributor to the
International Year Book snce 1898 and has been since 1902 editor in charge of
and principal contributor to the medical department of "The New International
Encyclopedia" published by Dodd, Mead & Company. Dr. Ferris was also the
medical editor of Nelson's Encyclopedia, 1906-7. He has been a contributor to
Medical Record, Medical News, New York Medical Journal, Philadelphia Medical
Journal, The Bookman, etc.

     From 1901 to 1903 Dr. Ferris was a trustee and the treasurer of Rutgers
Female College, New York city, during which time, in the course of an
investigation into the finances of the institution, he ascertained its
insolvency, discovered the thief and secured a confession.

     At the time of the founding in 1894 of Pringle Memorial Home for Aged
Men, at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Dr. Ferris was an incorporator, and he has since
been a trustee and the corresponding and financial secretary till his
resignation in 1907.

     Dr. Ferris is a member of the Quill Club; the Delta Upsilon Club of New
York; the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni of New York; the New York County and State
Medical Societies; the New York Academy of Medicine (in which he was chairman
of the section on Neurology and Psychiatry); New York Neurological Society;
Fort Orange Club and Republican Club. He is a candidate approved for election
into the American Neurological Society and the American Medico-Psychological
Society. He is also a member of the Republican County Committee of New York
county.

     Commissioner Ferris served as expert for the People in the first trial
of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White, and in other medico-legal
cases.

     He was appointed President of the New York State Commission in Lunacy by
Governor Hughes September 23, 1907.

     The New York Neurological Society sent Dr. Ferris to Amsterdam as a
delegate to the Congress International de Psychiatric, September 2 to 7, 1907.
He spent several weeks abroad during the summer of 1908 studying the
construction of hospitals in Switzerland and Germany.

     In 1897 the subject of this sketch was married to Juliet A. Gavette of
New York City.