Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-11-17
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
AIMEE RAYMoNo. N. 3.

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have forgotten Henry Jarvis Raymond,
the founder of the New York Times, .
his influence upon his contemporaries.
both IN mis- journalistic utterances and
in his political oratory, is a matter of
national history With Horace Greeley,
the senior James Gordon Bennett and
Charles A. Dana, Raymond formed a
quartette of great editors of whose
achievements the nation is rightly
proud, and in hOnoring whom she is but
showing proper gratitude. Dying at
the early age of forty-nine, Mr.. Ray
mond left in the newspaper which he
had founded, and in his political letters,
valuable alike for their sound American
ism and their literary excellence, monu-
ments of his industry and patriotism. And
like so many other of our great Amer
leans his name seems destined to further
fame through the energies and achieve
-nents of at least one of his children.
Among the younger women physi-
clans in New York city, DIR. Aimee Ray
mond, the subject OF this sketch, and
the youngest living child of the late
founder of the Times" promises to
hold rank and pre-eminence very like
her fathers position in his profession
Born in the sixties at a charming spot
on Lake Geneva, in Switzerland, while
the Raymonds were travelling in Eu-
rope, Aimee received every advantage
In her early education, which was
gained chiefly in Italy and France
Mrs Raymond, however, who in spite
of her long residence abroad, remained
at heart a thorough American, was ex-
tremely DESTROYS that her daughter
should complete her education at one
of the home schools, and returned to
this country for that purpose. In her
childhood and early girlhood, Aimee
showed marked talent for music, litera-
ture and the languages, and at the time
of her graduation in New York was a
fine pianist, spoke Italian and French
huently, painted with talent and had
written several stories and sketches
which had been accepted by metropoli-
tan editors.
But the career of the conventional
society girl offered few attractions to
Miss Raymond; the life of fashion was
repugnant to her, and soon after leav-
ing school she determined to devote
herself to the study and practice of
medicine. This desire on her part was
at first discouraged by her relatives, as
the requirements and restrictions of the
profession are so severe and eXacting.
They felt, too, that as her fathers
daughter her undouoted literary bill
ties should receive consideration and
trial before any other talent was forced
into use, but Miss Raymond's plea of
lack of originality in her literary work,
and her very evident determination to
at least test her ability in matters medi-
cal prevailed, and she began a course of
study at the Woman's Medical college
of the New York infirmary, from which
she was graduated in 1889.
In the first year after her graduation,
DIR. Raymond worked in what is known
as the ''out practice" that is, in the
work of medical relief among the tene-
ment house poor. Two years ago she
began her private practice at her resi-
dence on East Thirtieth street, where
she lives with an old friend, and at the
same time made her debut in the lee
ture field. During the past winter she
has delivered a course of lectures on
physiological subjects at the school in
New York where she had graduated as
a girl.
DIR. Raymond, who is communicate
of the resbvterian church, has iden-
titled herself also with several of the
charitable and humane societies in the
metropolis. She is physician to the
Messiah Home for Children, and has
served most effectively upon the hos
pital committee of the state charities,
and the State Aid association.
She holds also the office of correspond
ing secretary in the Association for the
Advancement of Women in Medicine
She has her own clinic in the dispensary
of the Womans medical college, and to
gain greater experience she works in
the clinic at Roosevelt hospital, privi-
lege for which she gladly pays the sum
asked. The practical and unobtrusive
assistance which she renders the male
physicians in her hospital connection
wins for her the most considerable and
courteous treatment
While DIR. Raymond enjoys her pro-
fession so keenly and it is now a vital
part of her existence, she has by no
means become woman of one idea.
AS the duties of her profession afford
her leisure, she attends the meetings of
the Working Woman's society, of which
she is an enthusiastic and active mem
Der This society, which is, / believe,
the only one of its kind in existence,
includes in its membership representa-
tives of fifty-nine different trades and
professions 1t is cooperative in the
respect that its members assist and aid
one another with their gifts and skill,
and many of the sick members can
thank DR.. Raymond for her freely given
medical advice and etficacious prescrip-
tions The main object of the society
is the general betterment of all self
supporting women, and as it is claimed
with a statistical basis of support, that
in New York city alone there are over
three hundred thousand OF this class, it
will be seen that the field Of the activ-
ity and usefulness of this organization
is a large one. DR.. Raymond has dis
tinguished herself on several occasions