Dr. Cyrus Maxwell Boger was born on May 13, 1861 in western Pennsylvania, the son of Cyrus and Isabelle Maxwell Boger.He graduated in pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and later in medicine from Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia.

     He settled in Parkersburg in 1888 and engaged himself in the practice of medicine, patients consulting him from neighboring states and from distant states and countries.

      He devoted all his time to teaching and writing but never gave up his practice. However, he frequently lectured before scientific audiences at the Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati and was a teacher of philosophy, materia medica and repertory study in the American Foundation for Homoeopathy Postgraduate School from 1924 until his death. He died on September 2, 1935, aged 74, from food poisoning after eating a tin of home-preserved tomatoes.

     
His Contributions

• He was a devoted follower of the Boenninghausen method of a repertory study. Boger, a German scholar, brought Boenninghausen’s Characteristics and Repertory into the English Language in 1905 - Boger Boenninghausen’s Characteristics and Repertory
• Edition of Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic Pocket Book
• Boenninghausen’s Antipsorics
• Studies in the Philosophy of Healing
• Study of Materia Medica and Case Taking
• Boger’s Diphtheria, The Homoeopathic Therapeutics
• A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
• General Analysis with Card Index
• Samarskite- a Proving
• The Times of the Remedies and Moon Phases - which characterize the Appearance and Aggravation of the Symptoms and their Remedies
• Alphabetic Repertory of Homoeopathic Remedies
• Editor of Homoeopathic Recorder.