Howland Shaw and Cora Lyman, and niece of the scientist and congressman Theodore Lyman III. They were the parents of two sons, John Warren (b. 1874) and Joseph Warren (b. 1876). Notes and references 1842 births 1927 deaths American medical writers American male non-fiction writers American surgeons Harvard Medical School alumni Harvard Medical School faculty People from Boston American Surgical Association members Crowninshield family Harvard College alumni Boston Latin School alumni