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dr leonora howard king 30 june 1925 farmersville -lrb- now athens -rrb- , canada west 17 april 1851 dr leonora howard king.jpg leonora king
 leonora howard king
leonora king

leonora howard king -lrb- april 17 , 1851 -- june 30 , 1925 -rrb- was a canadian physician and medical missionary who spent 47 years practising medicine in china .
she was the first canadian doctor to work in china .
leonora annetta howard was the daughter of peter t. and dorothy e. howard .
she was born in lansdowne , county leeds , canada west -lrb- ontario -rrb- , march 17 , 1851 .
she was raised in farmersville -lrb- now athens -rrb- .
she was educated in athens , ontario and in new york .
she qualified for and served as a teacher .
king was unable to attend medical school in canada and received her medical degree from the university of michigan in 1876 .
after joining the women 's foreign missionary society of the american methodist episcopal missionary society , she left for china in 1877 where she was a missionary doctor with the american methodist episcopal missionary society in the northern chinese province of chihli .
she took up her residence in peking .
in august , 1879 , dr king attended lady li , the wife of his excellency li hung chang , then seriously ill , in tien-tsin .
on lady li 's recovery , she remained in tien-tsin , in practice with the use of a temple being given to her for the purpose .
she founded , in tien-tsin , the methodist episcopal mission hospital in 1880 .
in 1885 dr. king opened a medical school for chinese women and girls who had been educated in mission schools .
in 1886 , lady li built dr. king another hospital , which was later known as government hospital for women and children , tien-tsin , china .
during the war between china and japan , dr. howard opened her hospital to wounded soldiers as opposed to women and children .
at the close of the war dr. king the first western woman was made a mandarin an honour of the imperial chinese order of the double dragon .
in 1884 she married rev. alexander king , a member of the london missionary society .
in 2000 , she was inducted into the canadian medical hall of fame .
in 2004 , she was inducted into the american medical women 's association 's international women in medicine hall of fame .
