Mary Jane Safford 1831 – 1891 | Sue Young Histories

*The family of former Illinois Governor Joel A. Matteson was traveling to Europe in July 1862 and Mary Safford joined them. Mary’s first cousin was married to the sister of Joel A Matteson’s wife so Mary was actually relative by marriage. Mary spoke German and French and likely was helpful in translation for these folks as well as helpful in minding their younger daughters.

*Safford travelled to Vienna to study at the University and in Allgemeines Krankenhaus hospital. She studied there with such greats as Rokitansky, Freund, Oppolzer, Spaeth and Waldeyer. and she then spent a short amount of time in Breslau where she performed what is said to have been the first successful ovariotomy (oophorectomy in current terms) by a woman.


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Health and strength for girls

Health and strength for girls

HEALTH AND STRENGTH PAPERS. I.— THE YOUNG SCHOOLGIRL. LAST summer, down in Maine , several school-girls were among the "summer boarders" at the farmhouse ...

Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

Mary Jane Safford, "The Angel of Cairo," organized the local women in providing general care for the sick. "Mother" Mary Ann Bickerdyke, a nurse, ...

Key command, Ulysses S. Grant's district of Cairo

Key command, Ulysses S. Grant's district of Cairo

The most prominent woman in town, despite her youth, Mary Jane Safford undertook the direction of a group of Cairo women who had come together in the first ...

The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z

The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z

Safford, Mary Jane SECONDARY SOURCES Hallays, Andre. "Le Salon de Madame de la Sabliere. In Les Grands Salons Litteraires. Paris: Payot, 1928. ...

German influences on education in the United States to 1917, edited by Henry Geitz, Jürgen Heideking, Jürgen Herbst

German influences on education in the United States to 1917, edited by Henry Geitz, Jürgen Heideking, Jürgen Herbst

Graduates of the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, such as Anna Broomall, also journeyed to Vienna after earning their degrees.45 Mary Jane Safford ...

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Mary Jane Safford (1831-1891) Safford was born in Hyde Park, Vt. and lived in Crete, Ill., from age 3. in 1849, following her parents' death, family ...

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Mary Jane Safford-Blake (December 31, 1834 – December 8, 1891) was a school ... After her marriage, she adopted the name Mary Jane Safford-Blake. ...

Mary Jane Safford | Civil War Women Blog
Mary Jane Safford was born in Hyde Park, Vermont, but her family ... Mary Jane's birth date is not known, but she was about 29 years old when the Civil War began. ...

Mary Jane Safford 1831 – 1891 | Sue Young Histories
Mary Jane Safford 1831 – 1891 trained at the homeopathic New York Medical College for ... In 1871 Mary Safford returned to the U. S. and went to Chicago where she opened a ...

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(born Dec. 31, 1834, Hyde Park, Vt., U.S.—died Dec. 8, 1891, Tarpon Springs, Fla.) American physician whose extensive nursing experience during the Civil War ...
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