Working on Wednesday: Mary Reed Stratton, M.D. (1869 - 1949)

My connection to Mary C. Reed Stratton is rather remote (she's a third cousin, three times removed*) but I want to pay tribute to a pioneering Colorado doctor.

I found this biography of her in The History of Colorado, published in 1918:

 

[History of Colorado; Wilbur Fiske Stone ed.(1833-1920). Publication date: 1918.

Source: Archive.org]

Here's a description of the medical school Dr. Reed Stratton graduated from in 1892 which was then called the Women's Medical College of Chicago, including her listing in the book:

[Alumnae of the Woman’s Medical College of Chicago--1859-1896. Source: Library of Congress]

From the 1920 Journal of the Colorado Medical Society I learned that Dr. Reed Stratton had headed east for further special training.

[Colorado Medicine, Volumes 17-18. Source: Google Books.]

And here's her obituary in the Rocky Mountain Medical Journal:

[Rocky Mountain Medical Journal published by the Colorado Medical Society. Source: Archive.org]

*Our common ancestor is my maternal fifth great grandfather William Sill (1757-1841). I discovered this pioneering female doctor while researching the probate records of Ann Sill, who bequeathed property to Mary's great grandmother Martha (Sill) Penny and her grandmother Margaret (Penny) Miller.

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