Jane Elizabeth Hoyt-Stevens (September 23, 1860 – July 1, 1933) was an American physician and suffragist based in New Hampshire.
Jane Elizabeth Hoyt-Stevens | |
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 Jane Elizabeth Hoyt-Stevens, from an 1895 publication | |
| Born | Jane Elizabeth Hoyt September 23, 1860 Concord, New Hampshire |
| Died | July 1, 1933 (aged 72) Concord, New Hampshire |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, suffragist |
Early life and education
editJane Elizabeth Hoyt was born in Concord, New Hampshire, the daughter of Sewell Hoyt and Hannah Elizabeth Nichols. She graduated from Wellesley College and earned her medical degree from the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary in 1890.[1] She served an internship at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1891 and 1892.[2] She pursued further medical training in Europe.[1]
Career
editHoyt was a physician on the staff of the New York Infant Asylum from 1889 to 1890, and at Laselle Seminary in Massachusetts from 1890 to 1891. From 1896 to 1899, she was a physician at Pillsbury Hospital in her hometown.[2]
Hoyt-Stevens was a member of the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, the New Hampshire Historical Society, and the New Hampshire Equal Suffrage Association.[2]
In 1906, she represented the New Hampshire Medical Society as a delegate to the International Medical Congress in Lisbon, and traveled in Spain and North Africa during that trip.[3] She met Gandhi during an extended visit to India,[4][5][6] and published writings about her impressions of him in 1931.[7]
She encouraged a younger generation of women in their medical careers, including Mary Runnells Bird,[8] and donated her family home, an "impressive mansion", to the use of the New Hampshire Congregational Conference, reserving "a small upstairs apartment" for her own use.[4][9]
Personal life
editHoyt married George Washington Stevens in 1907. She adopted a son in Spain, named Abelardo Linares.[4] She died in 1933, in Concord, New Hampshire, at the age of 72.[10]
References
edit- ^ a b Metcalf, Henry Harrison, 1841-1932. New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits And Biographical Sketches of Daughters And Residents of the Granite State. Concord, N.H.: The New Hampshire Publishing Co., 1895.
- ^ a b c Jane Elizabeth Hoyt (1860-1933), New Hampshire Historical Society.
- ^ "Concerning Women". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. September 8, 1906. p. 23. Retrieved April 18, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "N. H. Congregationalists Hold 150th Annual in Ancient Quarters". Concord Monitor. May 12, 1951. pp. 1, 2. Retrieved April 18, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "N. H. Pen Women at Newbury". Groton Times. October 9, 1931. p. 1. Retrieved April 18, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The Vaughans Return to India". The Vermont Missionary. May 1, 1928. p. 1. Retrieved April 18, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Hoyt-Stevens, Jane Elizabeth (1931). Some Impressions of Mahatma Gandhi Or "Gandhiji".
- ^ O'Connell, Wellner (May 6, 1961). "Woman Doctor, 90, Remembers Harsh 1880 Labor Laws". The Montreal Star. p. 28. Retrieved April 18, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "N. H. Congregationalists Dedicate New Quarters". The Boston Globe. October 28, 1932. p. 34. Retrieved April 18, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Woman Author, Traveler Dead in Concord, N.H." Hartford Courant. July 2, 1933. p. 6. Retrieved April 18, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.