Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1828, Feb. 17 | Born, Dorchester County, Md. |
| 1845 | Graduated, Wesleyan Female College, Wilmington, Del. |
| 1846-1850 | Professor, Wesleyan Female College; taught physiology and literature |
| 1850-1852 | Taught, Baltimore Female College, and continued studies with Dr. Thomas Bond, Jr., founder of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Baltimore, Md. |
| 1854 | Married John Quincy Adams Jones |
| 1862 | Studied medicine, Hygeio-Therapeutic Medical College, New York, N.Y. |
| 1865-1875 | Practiced medicine, Brooklyn, N.Y. |
| 1872 | Enrolled, Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. |
| 1873 | Passed three-month preceptorship with Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi in New York, N.Y. |
| 1875 | Graduated, Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., specializing in the treatment of diseases of the female reproductive system |
| 1876 | Began studying pathology with Dr. Charles Heitzman |
| 1882-1884 | Chief medical officer, Woman’s Hospital of Brooklyn, New York, N.Y. |
| 1884-1891 | Gynecologist, Woman’s Hospital of Brooklyn, New York, N.Y. |
| 1886 | Studied in Europe, touring European surgical theater |
| 1888 | Performed the first successful total hysterectomy for treatment of fibroid tumors while caring for a patient suffering from a seventeen-pound uterine tumor |
| 1890 | Tried and exonerated in the manslaughter case of Ida Hunt |
| 1892 | Lost libel suit against the Brooklyn Daily Eagle |
| 1893 | Only daughter murdered by her daughter’s husband |
| 1895 | Retired from her medical practice |
| 1895-circa 1908 | Researched and wrote articles on the clinical pathology of the female reproductive system |
| 1910, Apr. | Listed on the 1910 census as living in the Bronx, New York, N.Y. |