Arthur Percy Noyes

Who was Arthur Percy Noyes?

Arthur Percy Noyes, M.D. was a psychiatric administrator and educator, and published a widely used psychiatric textbook.

He was born in Enfield, New Hampshire, of Puritan stock who emigrated to the American colonies from England in 1633. His early education was in a one-room schoolhouse and later at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire. He entered Dartmouth College in 1899 and worked his way through college by teaching in rural areas. After his college graduation in 1902, he entered the University of Pennsylvania medical school. He graduated in 1906. He interned for one year at the City Hospital in New York City and then spent several years in general practice in New York and Connecticut.

Noyes returned to Philadelphia for one year of graduate study in internal medicine and neurology, and then entered the field of psychiatry at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. From 1916 to 1920, he was an assistant physician and executive officer at the hospital.

In 1920, Noyes moved to Washington, D.C., to join the medical staff at the St. Elizabeths Hospital. He served under William A.