Arthur Whittlesey Towne received an SB from Amherst College in 1901 and an AB from Harvard University in 1902. He was on the New York State Probation Commission in 1907, a member of the Childrens Aid Society in Brooklyn, and superintendent of the Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. While engaged in child welfare in Brooklyn he was involved with a 1918-1919 court case of coinjoined twins (Lucio and Simplicio Godine), and later became personally acquainted with other such twins and collected and wrote materials about them. Towne later moved to Syracuse, New York. It appears that his manuscript compositons on conjoined twins were never published.
From the guide to the Arthur Whittlesey Towne papers on conjoined twins, 1829-1943., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)
