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Subj: Edith Flower Wheeler
Date: 10/16/2003 6:55:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: wrsamson@orwell.net (Walter R. and/or Jo Samson)
To: JoyceTice@aol.com
George Washington Samson kept a daily log back in the early 1800s. In 1934 Edith Flower Wheeler transcribed it into 144 typed pages, a big task, for the DAR. I spent most of last winter trying to get it into a computer file, so I appreciate her effort.
Along the way I have picked up a few facts about Dr. Flower Wheeler, and I see she was from your area. Pasted below is my "scratch sheet" on her.
She was an early female physician and seems to have been an overall
accomplished woman. When you create your "Women of Note in the
Tri-Counties", I submit her as a candidate.
Walt
Fred H. Wheeler was born on 18 Oct 1878 in Virgil Town, Cortland,
Ny. He married Edith Irene Flower Dr. on 25 Jan 1909.
Edith Irene Flower Dr.
BIOGRAPHY:
State Normal Sch., Mansfield, PA., 1891; M.D.
Woman's Med. Coll. of PA. 1897.
Taught sch., 1891-93;
interne W. Phila. Hosp. for Women, 1897, 98;
asst. physician Markleton, PA Sanitarium 1898-99;
in private practice, Mansfield, PA 1899-1914,
Cortland, NY, 1922-; asst. physician, Gleason Health Resort,
Elmira, NY, NY., 1914-1917;
post-grad. work, Phila., PA, 1917-20.
Sch. physician, Mansfield and Richmond tps., Tioga Co., PA;
mem Bd. Health, Mansfield, PA and Cortland, NT etc.
Mem DAR, IAG, Cortland Co,
NY, Hist Soc., (pres.)
NEHGS, Tioga Co. PA,
Med. Soc. (pres), Cortland Co.
Med. Soc., Woman's Med. Soc. of NY State (v.p.) Republican.
Home: 28 Maple Av., Cortland, NY.
General:
Edith Irene Flower graduated State Normal School, Mansfield Pa., 1891.
She earned her Medical Doctors license from Women's Medical College of
Pa. in 1897. She taught school from 1891-1893. She did her internship with
the Philadelphia Hospital for Women 1897 and 1898. She was the assistant
physician at Markleton, Pa. Sanitarium from 1896 to 1899. She later went
into private practice in Mansfield, Pa., from 1899 to 1914. She again became
assistant physician at Gleason Health Resort in Elmira, N.Y. from 1914
to 1917. She did her post-graduate work in Philadelphia, Pa. from 1917-1920.
She held the position of School physician in the Mansfield and Richmond
Townships, Tioga County, Pa. She was a member on the Board of Health, Mansfield,
Pa. and Cortland, N.Y. She moved to Cortland, N.Y. in 1922. She was a member
of D.A.R.; I.A.G., Cortland Co., (N.Y.); Historical Society, Tioga Co.,
Pa.; Medical Society President, Cortland Co. Medical Society; Vice President
of Women's Medical Society of New York. She was a registered Republican.
She made her home at 28 Maple Street, Cortland, New York.
"Copied by Edith Flower Wheeler 1934
Cortland N.Y.
Tioughnioga Chapter D.A.R."
Women physicians' autobiographies identified but not yet examined are:
Finkler, Rita S. Good Morning, Doctor. (unpubl. typesc. photocopy,
ca. 1960) Also not seen, but described by Dr. Steven Peitzman as follows:
a
wonderful typescript autobiography of Edith Flower Wheeler, Women's
Medical College 1897, with early parts about school years based on letters
written at the time to her father. It provides a great deal of information
about faculty and school life in the 1890s (a kind of "golden age" for
the College). Wheeler calls it "She Saunters into her Past." It is in the
Edith Flower Wheeler Collection, Archives and Sepcial Collections on Women
in Medicine. There exists another unpublished autobiography by Catherine
MacFarlane, also a Women's Medical College graduate (1898) and later a
prominent gynecologist and something of a pioneer in cancer screening for
women. Copies can be found in the ASCWM , and also in the Library of the
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The ASCWM also hold a diary of Mary
Theodora McGavran, graduate of 1895, who went into medical missionary work
in India. It is in the McGavran Collection. Excerpts have been published:
Robert Kaiser, Sandra Chaff, and Steven Peitzman, "A Philadelphia medical
student of the 1890s: the Diary of Mary Theodora McGavran," Penn Mag Hist
Biog 108(1984):217-36. If you know of a woman physicians' autobiography
not listed here, please email pfannenstiel@cctr.umkc.edu
Joyce Tice site. Hisory of Mansfield, PA
Doctors were:
C. V. Elliott (retired),
Moody, F.. G.
Elliott, F. G.
Wood after 1895 and
Edith Flower (Wheeler) after 1899.
August 09, 2003
Called Anita Wright at Cortland Historical Society.
Dr. Wheeler migrated from Mansfield to the Elmira area and then to
Cortland because Fred Wheeler was involved with a local bank. She never
practiced seriously but did contribute to projects at the “Y” and other
teaching. The society has a copy of her biography "She Saunters into her
Past."
67th ANNIVERSARY
Celebration of Life
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Elmira, NY
Pg. 3-A new Medical/Surgical unit of 28 beds will be formally opened on Sunday, September 28. Dedicated to the Memory of long time member of St. Joseph’s Hospital Staff, Dr. Floyd H. Jones. The area is situated on the east side C-side of the hospital and, for direction purposes, is identified as the C-5 unit.
Pg. 10-
Dr. Jones is not Forgotten
A charter member of the Medical Staff of St. Joseph’s Hospital
will be memorialized during dedication ceremonies on Sunday.
Dr. Floyd H. Jones, a benefactor and first member of the Honorary
Board of Directors of the hospital will have the new fifth floor Medical/Surgical
unit dedicated to his years of service to the hospital and to the community.
Dr. Jones was born on Madison Avenue, “ just around the corner
from the hospital” where he served as Chief of Staff from 1936-1940. His
passing in 1970 was followed by editorial comment in the Star-Gazette recognizing
him for his understanding and compassion and his skill as a physician and
surgeon.
In the memorialization of this new modern facility of St. Joseph’s, which will feature a portrait rendering of Dr. Floyd H. Jones created by Theodore Van Brunt, his contributions to all who came in contact with him during his lifetime will not be forgotten.
Saved by Grant H. Jones
Also this write up for Dr. Floyd Harding Jones.
Fred Mosher JONES( son of Finla Jones) and Araminta Kiosa HARDING had
the following children:
1. Dr. Floyd Harding Jones was born May 24, 1888 on Madison Ave, Elmira,
NY. He died JULY 30, 1970.
2. Gertrude Frederica JONES was born Jan. 19, 1893. She died AFT 1948.
On the faculty of Little Falls High School, N.Y.
Gertrude Frederica JONES married Rae B. STEELE
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