Cleora Augusta Stevens Seaman (June 9, 1814 – July 10, 1869) was an American physician based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Cleora Augusta Stevens Seaman | |
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 Cleora Augusta Seaman, from a 1921 publication | |
| Born | 1814 Middlebury, Vermont, U.S. |
| Died | 1869 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Spouse |
John Farmer Seaman (m. 1833) |
| Children | 7 |
| Relatives | William Seaman Bainbridge (grandson) William Sims Bainbridge (great-great-grandson) |
Early life and education
editStevens was born in Middlebury, Vermont, and raised in Rochester, New York, the daughter of Levi Stevens and Lucy Boynton Stevens.[1] In midlife, she pursued a medical education at Western College of Homeopathy in Cleveland, the only program in Ohio where she could gain admission as a woman. She received her medical degree in 1860, the only woman in her class.[2]
Career
editAfter earning a medical degree, Seaman opened a free dispensary from her home in Ohio,[3] and experimented with combining electricity and hydropathy in her work.[2] In 1867 she was co-founder with Myra King Merrick of the Cleveland Homeopathic College and Hospital for Women.[4] She was the college's first president.[5]
Personal life and legacy
editCleora Stevens married John Farmer Seaman in 1833. They had seven children.[6] Cleora Stevens Seaman died in 1869, at the age of 55, at her daughter's home in Providence, Rhode Island.[1][7]
Her daughter Lucy Seaman Bainbridge became a nurse in the American Civil War, and a temperance leader;[8] she wrote about her mother's work in a 1921 journal article, "One of the Pioneer Women in Medicine".[2] She also wrote about her mother in a memoir, Yesterdays (1924).[3] Cleora Seaman's descendants include surgeon William Seaman Bainbridge (Lucy's son) and sociologist William Sims Bainbridge (Lucy's great-grandson).[9]
References
edit- ^ a b De Forest, Louis Effingham (1950). Ancestry of William Seaman Bainbridge. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Oxford : Scrivener Press, 1950.
- ^ a b c Bainbridge, Lucy Seaman (March 1921). "One of the Pioneer Women in Medicine". Medical Woman's Journal. 28: 75–78.
- ^ a b Bainbridge, Lucy Seaman (1924). Yesterdays. Fleming H. Revell Company.
- ^ Cole, Kimberly. "Pioneering Women Doctors". Cleveland Historical. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
- ^ Cleveland Homeopathic College and Hospital for Women (1868). Annual Announcement. Leader Book and Job Office.
- ^ Bainbridge, William Sims (2018-11-02). Family History Digital Libraries. Springer. pp. 56–58. ISBN 978-3-030-01063-8.
- ^ "Personal". The Ohio Medical and Surgical Reporter. 3: 206. November 1869.
- ^ "Lucy Bainbridge". History of American Women. 2006-10-21. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
- ^ Cassidy, Joseph (1965-05-15). "Three Socialites Die in Blaze". Daily News. p. 58. Retrieved 2023-04-07 – via Newspapers.com.