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About Dr. Mary Henderson Stinson
Dr. Mary Henderson Stinson was born November 14, 1819. Her early education was obtained at the Jeffersonville school, and she also attended Mr. Ashton's private school in Philadelphia and the Female Seminary in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Having been an invalid many years she studied medicine as a hygienic measure, and graduated in the class of 1869 of the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia. She was recommended by the Woman's Medical College as a candidate for election for assistant physician in the department for women in the Massachusetts Insane Asylum at Worcester in that state, and in July, 1869, she was elected by a unanimous vote to the position.
This was the first appointment of a woman to such a position on record. She continued in the position, performing its duties in the most successful and satisfactory manner, until 1875. She then made a tour of the United States, spending nearly eleven months in this way. After attending and benefiting by the Centennial Exposition, she made a tour of Europe for study and sight seeing, returning after an absence of nearly two years. She declined tale (??) position of resident physician of the Woman's Department of the Norristown Hospital for the Insane, which was tendered her. She was the first woman who became a member of the Montgomery County Medical Society, and was a delegate from it to the state and national medical associations. She died February in 1889, leaving a liberal provision for the Aged Woman's Home.
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http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/montgomery/bios/robertsannals/robe...
Dr. Mary H. Stinson, is one of nation’s first matriculated women physicians and a founder of the Stinson Home for Aged Women in Norristown.
a much more throrough biography is in Theo. W. Bean ed. The History of Montgomery County (1884) Peck and Peck Philadelphia. pages 673-675 ; includes engraved photographic plate of the subject.
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Dr. Mary Henderson Stinson's Timeline
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November 14, 1819
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1889
Age 69
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