Frederick Peterson

From 1892 to 1902 he was president of the Craig Colony for Epileptics, the first residential facility for people with epilepsy in the United States.

[2] In the late 1800s he was Clinical Professor of Mental Diseases at the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, the institution founded by early female physicians Elizabeth Blackwell and Emily Blackwell.

[3] From 1900 until his retirement in 1915, he was on faculty as a full professor of "nervous and mental diseases" at Columbia University.

He published Poems and Swedish Translations in 1883, In the Shade of the Ygdrasil in 1893, and the play The Flutter of the Gold Leaf (1922) which he co-wrote with Olive Tilford Dargan.

One of his poems, "The Sweetest Flower that Blows," was set by James Hotchkiss Rogers to music and became the popular song "At Parting.