Boudinot Currie Atterbury (1852–1930), from a wealthy New York family, trained to be a medical doctor and worked with the Presbyterian missions in China and later with Chinese communities in the USA. He attended Phillips Academy class of 1869 before going to Yale, leaving as a non-graduate in 1873. After three years work experience he attended medical school at Bellevue Hospital from where he graduated with a medical degree in 1878. He expanded his medical knowledge, working in New York, Paris and Palestine before moving to China as a medical missionary in 1879. He built a hospital in Peking with funding from family and friends, treating the poor and training Chinese medical students. In 1890 he married Mary Josephine Lowrie (1858-1910), the daughter of missionaries (Amelia and Reuben Post