Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-07-10
PERSONAL
DR.. Jennie McCowen. President OF
the Academy of Natural Sciences.

the ACdOenly OF NaIural sciences
DR.. Jennie McCowen, of Davenport,
Ia, has been unanimously elected Pres
ident of the Academy of Natural
Sciences In this city. DIR. McCowen
had for two years previously acted as
Corresponding Secretary for that or
ganization, and for three years preced-
ing that as Librarian, having in charge
the 5000 volumes upon its shelves
She Is one of the best-known and most
popular women in State famous for
Its progressive and aspiring daughters.
The range of her industry and accom-
plishment would put to the blush many
an ostentatious business man Her own
profession, in which she has high rank,
Is not enough to satisfy her poised and
indefatigable spirit. For rest and re-
creation she merely changes works"
When her duties as a physician tax her
strength she turns to literature, philsn-
thropy, or science as an offset. DIR.
McCowen is of French extraction, Pres
byterian on her fathers side and Quak-
er on hsr mothers She was born near
Cincinnati, and Is the daughter of ply
sician. Her parents both died when
she was young, and she educated her
self for teacher at a normal school in
Ohio, fromwhich she now has an "a. VI. ="
title She taught and studied, studied
and taught, until she was able and old
enough to become doctor.
She assumed her own support at six
teen, and became a resident of Iowa In
1864. She took three years course in
the medical department of the State
University. Upon her graduation she
was Immediately offered position on
the medical staff of the State Hospital
ofShe Insane at Mount Pleasant. She
remained there three years, and then
began private practice, with the deter
mination of making mental diseases, es-
pecially those of her own sex, her life
work Her value IN her chosen field
has been generously recognized. She
has been three times elected to the Sec
retaryship of the Scott County Medical
Society. At the close of her last term
as Secretary she was elected President
of the Society, a thing hitherto un-
dreamed of IN the history of the medical
world She Is also a member of various
medical societies, among them the New
York Medico-Legal Society. She was
elected TO this IN 1884, when there were
but two other women members to 400
men. She has been associate editor
since 1885 of the IOlrd Medical RepOrt-
er, and contributor to many medical
Journals, chiefly on insanity. In 1883
she began the issue of little paper in
connection with the Working Woman's
Club, which club Is her especial pride.
This paper Is called Lend a Hand
Echoes, and all the work done upon it
IL done within the membership of the
Club. The motive throughout is phi
lanthropic, being the Improvement and
encouragement of working girls and
women in Davenport.
In person DIR. McCowen Is said to re-
semble Frances Willard, but the resem-
blance Is only IN the type. Her hair
has tinge of warmth, her ewes are
blue, her teeth even and white, her
laugh hearty and contagious, her dis
position sunny, her insight keen and
her will lstrong.-DdUenpOrt { Ia } Letter
to Chicago Tribune.
WFE-''Mrs. Dawson says that am
a perfect fright, even in the handsomest
dress. -
Husband-''DoeS she?,
''She does. Now, do 1 look like a
fright to you, John?''
Look like fright to me? No, L
guess not. tell you, May, it takes a
good deal to frighten me-"
"wHAT are you dong now, Brown?,,
I'm a silver chaser at present, Quinn
by"
it?" -'H
''No; I'm merely looking for a man
with quarter to lend. Do you happen
to have one?''
DINER-oUT-"Wait how's this? I
have Just discovered collar button in
my SOUP
Waiter-"Yes, sah-you's de lucky
man. We has prize soup on MONDAYS
an WedneSdays. a harnsome gift IN
every twentieth plate, sab. ~
ABOUT what time and where did
the knights originate and fiourishp,,
asked the teacher
And the smart bad boy said be reck-
oned in the dark cages. And for the
hftieth time that week the poor. patienJ
die. Wv Auo