Born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard University in 1866, Putnam went to Europe to study in the company of Baron Carl von Rokitansky, Theodor Meynert and John Hughlings Jackson.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard University in 1866. He went to Europe to study in the company of Baron Carl von Rokitansky, Theodor Herman Meynert and John Hughlings Jackson.