Easmon was among the first group of Sierra Leoneans to qualify as a medical doctor after getting a degree from Edinburgh University.
[1] He became the leading gynaecologist in Freetown, Sierra Leone and had an extensive private practice.
[1] Albert Whiggs Easmon enrolled in Edinburgh University to study medicine; he qualified in 1895, graduating with First Class Honours.
According to his son Raymond S. Easmon: "Father had literally to doctor the whole city.
"[2] Soon after the epidemic, Easmon had a stroke that paralysed the right side of his body, leaving him bedridden for two years until his death on 26 May 1923, at the age of 56.