WILLIAM SIDNEY BOARDMAN was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, November 15, 1858. He graduated from the High School of his native town in 1876, and a year later entered Amherst College, graduating in 1881. He then pursued the four years course at the Harvard Medical School, receiving the degree of M. D. in 1885. In the same year he also received the degree of A. M. from his Alma Mater, and became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

After one year's service as House Officer in the Carney Hospital at South Boston, Dr. Boardman began regular practice in Boston, becoming connected with the Boston Dispensary first as a District Physician and later as one of the staff of Dispensary Physicians. Since 1889 he has been Physician to the Department of Diseases of the Throat.

In 1895 he became a member of the American Climatological Association, and in the same year he was appointed instructor in the Diseases of the Throat in the Tufts Medical School.