After the war, he worked in Philadelphia and then moved to Lansdale, Pennsylvania, founding an ambulance corps and the North Penn Hospital (1954).

[2] Boston's first confrontation with the media was in May 1916, where he had been criticized by the local coroner's office after the death of a young boy.

I decided that Dr. Franklin R. Brady, who is an eminent surgeon in brain operations, ought to see him, so I went at once with a child in the automobile to the Medico Chirurgical Hospital in order to obtain a clear X-ray record.

I consulted Doctor Brady, our president, and it was with his sanction that I took the child to Medico Chirurgical Hospital for X-ray purposes.

He did not display any dangerous symptom until a short time before he died, and we were about to operate when he suddenly became unconscious.

After the declaration of war with Germany, many African Americans were turned away from the local recruiting stations.

[6] Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School had been opened for training African American men as there had been a huge influx of African American volunteers and a petition was erected by the students of Howard University.

[7] When Boston answered the military's call for physicians, he was immediately given the rank, First Lieutenant in the Army Medical Reserve Corps.

After completing his training, Lieutenant Boston was assigned as a medical officer with the 317th Engineers Regiment of the 92nd Division.

[8] Before leaving for France, Lieutenant Boston spent additional time in Camp Sherman, Ohio, where his abilities and rigor were so well recognized that he was promoted to captain.

Most African American soldiers had been assigned to noncombatant engineer units that performed dangerous and hard jobs of digging trenches, forming roads, and fortification against the Germans.

Captain Boston spent his time in France busy taking care of sick men and those heavily injured from building, as the Germans were becoming more aggressive in late 1918.

[10] After the conclusions of the war, Captain Boston remained at his commission in the Medical Reserve Corps.

When the war ended Du Bois sought out and interviewed many African American soldiers for a scheduled book on their experiences.

Boston was living in 813 N. 16th Street, Philadelphia, and in one of his letters to Du Bois, he replied: Dear W.E.B.

Boston continued his association with Mercy Hospital during the 1930s, participating in various clinical lectures and was credited for it in the Chicago Defender.