Dr. Ward Nicholas Boylston (1815-1870)
Dr. Ward Nicholas Boylston M.D., of "Boylston Villa" Princeton, Massachusetts
He was born at Princeton, Massachusetts. On leaving Leicester Academy (1831), he studied medicine under Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck at Boston and attended lectures at Bowdoin College and Harvard from which he graduated in 1839. He practised in Boston for five years during which time he was one of the visiting physicians at the Boston Dispensary. In 1844, after his grandmother died, he came into possession of his grandfather's large estate at Princeton, the Boylston Villa. He resided in Princeton for the rest of his life, "enjoying and improving the beautiful landed property he inherited. He was a very public-spirited and useful citizen of that town - liberal in enterprises for the good of the town, and unostentatiously, but consequently benevolent to those who needed aid. He never accepted any public office. He frequently mingled in society in the cities of Boston and Worcester, and took extensive journeys in the United States and British American provinces, but never crossed the Atlantic". He never married and "after a sickness attended by much suffering" died at the Boylston Villa in 1870.
