New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-19

ATTAINED scUc,Ess THRorGH THEIR
OWN rNArDED EFFORTS
Among the prominent professional women Of Chs.
cago are seyera disciples OF .7.Scuapius who have
won generous recognition for their services on be-
half Of suffering humanity. Long before the days
Of st. Luke "the beloved phys clan" it said that
an Athenan woman pracised medicine.
though # was against the law CT her lard 50
In this progressive age IL s 70 be wondered a.
that the mortar has net los. Us charm for the
DR. Frances Dickinson who & sail 10 he Of
the most intellectual. women CT the Wsst. was born
In Chicago and educated In the grammar and high
schools OF that city whore she graduated In 1874
She adopted the profession Of teaching ard
schooma'am fOr 1--WE years but rer work became
dstasteful to her and -he took up The study OF
medicine at the Chicago Woman's Medical college.
sn inferno in the Women and ChIidren's Hospital.
and then, deciding that ophha ogy would be her
Eye and Ear Inarmary y Ghcago ,' and later
studied under the direction Of Dr. cooper. OF Lon
Graduating with honors. the young student took
a "TRIP abroad ana men returned to her native CITY
Harvey Medical College. Professor in the same
IN ophthalmolosy occupying chair in the Chicago
Post-Graduato School Of Medicine.
The title OF Julia Holmes Smith another Chicago
woman. Is a VI NJ D. She born IN sa-
vannah. Ga. traces her descent on her fathers
side from an old family OF planters. and on her
mothers from the Colonial Turner's. who Will be-
best remembered the family OF George Rayne
turner, the Revolutionary hero. The education OF
Miss Holmes was intrusted 10 an aunt. and when
she was seven years old masters I'm music and
french and Latin employ ed for her. and
the of sixteen she admitted TO the spinger
Institute. from which she graduated In 1860. and
married Walden Abbott the son of the Rev J. $
g Abbott few years after Mr.. Abbott died, and
young business man. Mrs. Abbott taught for sew
era years; occasionally dabbing In literary WORK
and then she married Sabin Smith, OF New London
and removed with him 70 Boston. Here she met n
woman physician. who interested her In the study
Of medicine. anl IL was that she became an
NJ. ID. She was for Ions time a lecturer nj the
Chicago homeopathic College. ANA later became 4
professor. and Is nov member Of the Board or
Directors. The doctor is prolific writer ~ medical
literature. ami occupies a gf'a; many honorary OF,
trustee OF the Illinois State University. and she
esteems IL the grooming glory 50 far OF her life
that she has the honor 10 have beer the first
woman trustee Of the Illinois s,are University Al
though having studied under ihe direction or
many famous men. she boasts thar her career n a
friend who induced her 10 make medicine her pro-
fession.
one OF the best-known physicians Of Chicago is
Dr. Prudence Beden- Sauer % whom It is said IN
her native city that II not for her charitable
gifts she would be wealthy "a % become tho
envy the entire feminiu" world. Tn" instances in
which she has not only given free treatment. but
mention. She j. IN earnest Christian. and never
neglects an pD,rtuniiy Of stlmu1tlng hotter
spiritual well as more normal physical lie N
the men and women sh. comes ~ contact Win
DR. Bed -Sauer was horr IN OHIO. and after re-
ceying thoroush ccmmon-sr,ool educalon Sne
took III legiate cours. 40 ob'iln 'eieg" ana
then q - several yeats IN t1' si,dy 81 advan.eh
ton ana .vi,e b. the leading men lhysicians OF
her city She has filed seyer1. prominent POSITIONS.
and was member f the S'aic Sanitary Board for
several years rs well a. being treasurer OF tho
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