Mary A. G. Dight

M.D.
"A Woman of the Century"
Born
Mary Alice Glidden Crawford

November 7, 1860
Portsmouth, Ohio, U.S.
DiedFebruary 8, 1923
Colebrook, New Hampshire, U.S.
Education
Occupationphysician
Spouses
  • Benjamin C. Trago (m. 1885; div.)
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    (m. 1892; div. 1899)​
Medical career
Institutions

Mary A. G. Dight (November 7, 1860 – February 8, 1923) was an American physician. She served as president of the Hempstead Academy of Medicine,[1] had charge of the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia,[2] and was a pioneer in pursuing the establishment of a woman's medical college in New Orleans.[3] During her marriage to Charles Fremont Dight, she was a supporter of the human eugenics movement.[1]

Biography

Mary (nickname, "Minnie")[4]Alice Glidden Crawford was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, November 7, 1860.[1][lower-alpha 1] She was the only daughter of Mary Young (Glidden) and George Crawford. Her mother descended from New England families. Dight's mother supported the higher education of women and encouraged her daughter to pursue the profession of her choice.[1] Minnie had two brothers, George and John.[5]

Dight was an accomplished musician, and a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She spoke German fluently. She was graduated from the department of regular medicine and surgery of the University of Michigan Medical School, one of the youngest of the class of 1884.[1] She was also a graduate of the College of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery, University of Minnesota, 1892.[6]

Returning to Ohio, she practiced medicine for a year.[1] She wed Benjamin C. Trago, May 9, 1885, but unhappy in the marriage,[4] she went abroad in 1886 and continued her studies in Paris and Vienna for two years. She returned to Portsmouth and was chosen president of the Hempstead Academy of Medicine.[1]

While a medical student, she made the acquaintance of Professor Charles Fremont Dight, M. D., at that time one of the medical faculty of the University of Michigan, who after a six year's professorship in the American Medical College in Beirut, Syria, returned to the U.S. to marry her,[1] in 1892; they divorced in 1899.[4]

Dight urged efforts for social reforms. Her home was in Faribault, Minnesota.[1]

Mary A. G. Dight died in Colebrook, New Hampshire, February 8, 1923.[4] Her estate was administered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ Strong records her name as Alice G. Crawford.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "DIGHT, Mrs. Mary A. G.". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. p. 244. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ↑ "Medical News Items". The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal. J.A. Gresham. 50: 45. 1897. Retrieved 6 October 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ↑ "What Women Are Doing". The Woman's Medical Journal. Recorder Publishing Company. 5: 243. 1896. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "DIGHT, Mrs. Mary A. G." marykatemcmaster.org. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  5. 1 2 Strong, Mrs Lucia Mabel Glidden (1925). The Descendants of Charles Glidden of Portsmouth and Exeter, New Hampshire. Retrieved 6 October 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. ↑ University of Minnesota (1901). The University of Minnesota Alumni Record, by Classes and Alphabetically by Colleges, 1873-1900. University of Minnesota. pp. 10, 113. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  7. ↑ "LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 18 May 1923. p. 33. Retrieved 6 October 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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