ALBERTUS K. BOARDMAN, M. D.

     Dr. Albertus K. Boardman, who enjoys a large private practice in addition to extensive hospital work, was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, January 19, 1875, a son of Dwight and Stella Delphine (Richards) Boardman. Through eight generations the ancestors have lived in Massachusetts. His grandfather, Levi Boardman, removed to Sheffield from Wethersfield, and there Dwight Boardman was reared. His wife was born in Lenox, Massachusetts. He engaged in farming and still retains his residence in Massachusetts, being an honored resident of Sheffield at the age of eighty-two years. At the time of the Civil war he responded to the country's call for troops and went to the front as a volunteer of the Forty-ninth Massachusetts Regiment, with which he served as a noncommissioned officer, rendering active aid to the Union during that dark hour in the country's history. His wife is still living at the age of seventy-seven years. Their children are: Roland Leslie, who is living in Sheffield; Walter Richards, a resident of Lime Rock, Connecticut; Jennie, who died at the age of twelve years; Elizabeth Warner, who became the wife of Dr. Benjamin Platt and died in the Philippine Islands, December 15, 1915; and Albertus K., of this review, who is the youngest of the family.
     In his boyhood days Dr. Boardman was a pupil in the public schools of Sheffield and of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He attended the high school in the latter place and afterward pursued preparatory work at Mount Hermon. His professional training was received in the University of Pennsylvania, where he became a medical student and won his degree upon graduation in 1899. He then located for practice in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, where he remained for a year, and later he removed to Adams, Massachusetts, where he also resided for a year. On the expiration of that period he came to New Haven and spent a year and a half in the Emergency Hospital. He then entered upon the private practice of medicine in Fairfield, Connecticut, where he continued for a year and a half, after which he returned to New Haven in 1904. Here he has since built up a large practice. He is splendidly equipped for the onerous and responsible duties of the profession, for in addition to his preliminary college course he has done post graduate work in the Lying-in Charity Hospital of Philadelphia, in the Wills Eye Hospital of Philadelphia, which he attended in 1899, and he also spent one year in the Mercer County Hospital of Trenton, New Jersey. He belongs to the New Haven, the Connecticut State and the American Medical Associations and in addition to his private practice and his general hospital work is engaged in the drug business.
     In 1903 Dr. Boardman was united in marriage to Miss Anna Rosa De Eli, of New Haven, a daughter of Joseph and Josephine De Eli. They have become parents of three children: Stella Josephine, who was born July 7, 1904, and is attending school, being a junior in the New Haven high school; Gladys Elizabeth, born May 13, 1908; and Jane Richards, born August 15, 1912.
     In his fraternal relations Dr. Boardman is a Mason, holding membership in the lodge and council. He is serving with the Second Company of the Governor's Foot Guard. In a professional way he has worked his way upward unaided, depending entirely upon his own resources, and his developing powers have won for him a creditable position in the ranks of the medical fraternity in New Haven.

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