from Harvard Medical School in 1871, studied obstetrics in Europe from 1871 to 1873, and then worked as a gynecologist in Boston.

[4] From 1874 he worked at the Boston City Hospital, helping to found the gynecological department, and taught at Harvard Medical School.

Her younger brother was George H. Lyman, chairman of the Massachusetts Republican state committee and Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston, and her great-grandfather was Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Vice President of the United States (under President James Madison).

Together, they were the parents of three daughters and two sons, including:[2] His wife died on July 13, 1889, in Birmingham, England.

Chadwick died from a fall from a piazza roof at his summer home in Chocorua, New Hampshire, on September 23, 1905.