First Women in the South Jersey Medical Societies - South Jersey Medical History

<span class="subhead">South Jersey Medical</span> History </div></TD> <TD align=middle width="25%"><IMG src="../images/7cam.gif" alt="Pictures of our campuses" width="168" height="110" border=0> </TD> </TR></TBODY></TABLE> <hr>   <center> <span class="big">First Women in the South Jersey Medical Societies </span> <p align="left">The March 1990 issue of <b><i>New Jersey Medicine</i></b> carried a series of <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=2195398%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195397%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195396%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195395%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195394%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195393%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195392%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195391%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195390%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195389%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195388%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195387%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195386%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195385%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195384%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195383%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195382%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195381%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195380%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195379%5Bpmid%5D+OR+2195378%5Bpmid%5D">21 articles</a> by GR Hutner on the first women in New Jersey's county medical societies. Below are the South Jersey women who were their counties' trailblazers. </p> <p align="left"><a NAME="clement"></a><span class="subhead">Ruth Clement, 1848-1925</span> <p align="left">Ruth Clement grew up in Paulsboro and received her degree from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1889. She worked in the college hospital and then opened a private practice in Philadelphia. She received a New Jersey medical license in 1907 and opened a private practice in National Park in about 1915. That year she was elected as the first woman member of the Gloucester County Medical Society. <br> <br> <b>Source</b>: [Hutner, GR] "Ruth Clement. Gloucester County." New Jersey Medicine. 87(3):213, March 1990. <div align="left"> <table BORDER=0 WIDTH="100%" > <tr> <td><a NAME="dunlap"></a><span class="subhead">Mary J. Dunlap, 1853-19??</span> <p>Mary Dunlap was born in Philadelphia and received her medical degree from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886. In 1889 she became medical director and superintendent of the Home for the Feeble-Minded (now the Vineland Developmental Center). In 1899 she became the first woman president of the Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Persons (now the Association for Mental Retardation) and in January 1901 became first woman member of the Cumberland County Medical Society. In 1909 she married Clarence Snyder and moved to Wisconsin. They moved to New York City soon after World War I broke out, but Mary returned to Wisconsin, where she was last recorded in 1923, after the death of her husband <br> <br> <b>Source</b>: [Hutner, GR] "Mary Dunlap. Cumberland County." New Jersey Medicine. 87(3):207-208, March 1990. Photo copyrighted ©1990 New Jersey Medicine. Used with permission, courtesy of the <a href="http://www.msnj.org">Medical Society of New Jersey</a>.</td> <td ALIGN=CENTER><img SRC="../images/marydunlap.jpg" ALT="Mary J. Dunlap" HSPACE=10 VSPACE=10 BORDER=0 height=244 width=200></td> </tr> </table> <table BORDER=0 WIDTH="100%" > <tr> <td ALIGN=CENTER><img SRC="../images/hallowell.jpg" ALT="Rebecca Cooper Hallowell" HSPACE=10 VSPACE=10 BORDER=0 height=220 width=200></td> <td><a NAME="hallowell"></a><span class="subhead">Rebecca Cooper Hallowell, 1830-1909</span> <p>Rebecca Hallowell graduated in 1878 from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania and began a practice in Atlantic City. In 1883 was elected the first woman member of the Atlantic County Medical Society. Later she became a medical missionary for the Women's Matronal Indian Association and helped to establish a hospital at Adun Colentz, San Diego County, California. She returned in 1907 and died in her Haddonfield home in 1909. <br> <br> <b>Source</b>: [Hutner, GR] "Rebecca Hallowell. Atlantic County." New Jersey Medicine. 87(3):193, March 1990. Photo copyrighted ©1990 New Jersey Medicine. Used with permission, courtesy of the <a href="http://www.msnj.org">Medical Society of New Jersey</a>.</td> </tr> </table> <table BORDER=0 WIDTH="100%" > <tr> <td><a NAME="hand"></a><span class="subhead">Anna Maria Hand, 1849-1921</span> <p>Anna Hand was born in Cape May Court house and educated at the New Jersey State Normal School. She taught for seven years in Pennsylvania and then entered the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia, from which she graduated in 1890. In 1892 she began a practice in Cape May Court House and became the first woman member of the Cape May County Medical Society in 1901. She moved to Philadelphia in 1914 and in about 1918 to New York. <br> <br> <b>Source</b>: [Hutner, GR] "Anna Hand. Cape May County." New Jersey Medicine. 87(3):205, March 1990. Photo copyrighted ©1990 New Jersey Medicine. Used with permission, courtesy of the <a href="http://www.msnj.org">Medical Society of New Jersey</a>. <br> </td> <td ALIGN=CENTER><img SRC="../images/annahand.jpg" ALT="Anna Maria Hand" HSPACE=10 VSPACE=10 BORDER=0 height=208 width=200></td> </tr> </table> <a NAME="metzer"></a><span class="subhead">Emma Weeks Metzer, 1870-1964 </span></div> <p align="left">Emma Pauline Weeks, who was born in Riverside, NJ, entered the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1890 and graduated in 1892. She did clinical work in Philadelphia and opened a practice in Riverside in 1893. In 1896 she became the first woman member of the Burlington County Medical Society. She married William H. Metzer in 1900 and continued her practice in Riverside. She was one of the original ten physicians on staff at Zurbrugg Hospital when it opened in 1915. <br> <br> <b>Source</b>: [Hutner, GR] "Emma Weeks. Burlington County." New Jersey Medicine. 87(3):199, March 1990. <div align="left"> <table BORDER=0 WIDTH="100%" > <tr> <td><img SRC="../images/sophiapresley.jpg" HSPACE=10 VSPACE=10 BORDER=0 height=286 width=200></td> <td><a NAME="presley"></a><span class="subhead">Sophia Presley, 1834-1909 </span> <p>Born in Ireland, Sophia Presley immigrated to the United States at 16 and lived with her family in Ohio, where she became a teacher until 1876. She entered the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania that year and graduated in 1879. She became a member of the Surgical Clinic of the Woman's Medical College and then a clinic physician. She then moved to Camden, where she opened a private practice and worked at the City Dispensary. In 1890 she became the first woman member of the Camden County Medical Society. Dr. Presley also taught at the New Jersey Training School for nurses and was on the board of trustees of the West Jersey Orphanage for Destitute Colored Children. <p><b>Source</b>: [Hutner, GR] "Sophia Presley. Camden County." New Jersey Medicine. 87(3):201-202, March 1990. <p><b>Image Source</b>: <a href="http://www.cchsnj.com/">Camden County Historical Society</a>. Used with permission. The image is also reprinted in Hutner's article.</td> </tr> </table> <a NAME="smith"></a><span class="subhead">Ellen Smith, 1866-1920 </span></div> <p align="left">Ellen Harris was born in Lower Alloways Creek Township and received her degree in 1892 from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She practiced in Brooklyn, where she married Dr. Winfield Scott Smith. They moved to Salem and opened a practice at their home. She became the first woman member of the Salem County Medical Society in 1916. Dr. Smith, who encouraged women to enter the medical profession, died in a tragic automobile accident in 1920. <p align="left"><b>Source</b>: [Hutner, GR] "Ellen Smith. Salem County." New Jersey Medicine. 87(3):223, March 1990. <p> <hr WIDTH="100%"> <div align="left">Return to <a href="http://www4.umdnj.edu/camlbweb/sjmedhist/">South Jersey Medical History</a>. </div> </center> <div align="left"></center> </div>   <p><a href="javascript:history.go(-1)" class="smalllink" onmouseover="window.status='Return to previous page';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;"><img src="../images/back_arrow.gif" alt="Return to previous page" width="40" height="25" border="0" align="absmiddle"> Return to the previous page</a> </p> <p></p> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">  </script> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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