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Elmira Y. Howard (3 May 1841 – 7 August 1921)[1] was an American doctor and the first woman to open a medical practice in Cincinnati, Ohio.[2][3] She was called "the first woman physician to practise west of the Allegheny Mountains".[4][5][6]

Life

Elmira Y. Howard was born in Shelby, Ohio on 3 May 1841.[2]

In 1859, she married Jerome B. Howard, an artist.[2] Jerome B. Howard, as an artist, was connected with the State Normal School of New York.[2] They couple had three children: two boys and a girl.[2]

When the Civil War broke out, Jerome Howard volunteered.[2] He was taken prisoner and died in Andersonville prison.[2] Elmira Howard was 23 years old.[2]

The Howards' daughter, Ellen Jeanette, died in 1909 from consumption.[7] Until her illness, Ellen Howard had co-owned and run a bookstore in Palmyra, Missouri.[7]

Medical career

Howard decided to study medicine, partly inspired by her daughter's disability.[2] At the age of 27, she went to New York, where she entered the New York Medical College for Women.[2] There, she studied alongside Susan McKinney Steward.[8][9] Howard graduated in 1869.[8][10]

That year, Howard moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she opened an office for practice: the first woman in the city to do so.[2] After three years developing the practice, in 1873, Howard went to Europe.[2] There, she worked and studied in the Vienna General Hospital for nine months.[2][11] She studied both allopathy and homeopathy.[2]

Howard was also secretary of the Cincinnati Theosophical Society.[12]

After 25 years in practice in Cincinnati, Howard moved to Marion County, Missouri.[4] There, she continued to practice medicine, specializing in diseases of women and children, until her retirement.[5]

In 1894, Elizabeth Nourse, whose twin sister Howard probably attended during her last illness, was commissioned to create a portrait of Howard.[13]

Later years and death

During the last three years of her life, she lived with her son, Dr. Jerome Howard in Covington, Kentucky.[4] She died there on Sunday 7 August 1921.[5][4]

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