History of Cayuga County New York United States of America

History of Cayuga County New York

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Biographical Sketch of Eliza Maria Mosher

Eliza Maria Mosher, educator, was born in Cayuga county, N.Y., Oct. 2, 1846; daughter of Augustus and' Maria (Sutton) Mosher; granddaughter of Alien and Hannah (Eddy) Mosher and of Abram and Hester (Carpenter) Sutton, and a direct descendant of both Francis Cooke and Richard Warren wile came over on the Mayflower, and of Hugh Mosher who came a few years later. She was graduated from Friends academy, Union Springs, N.Y., in 1862, and from the department of medicine and surgery, University of Michigan, in 1875. She studied in London and Paris, 1879-80, and practised as resident physician at the Massachusetts Reformatory Prison for Women, 1877-79. She was superintendent of the reformatory, 1881-83; associate professor of physiology and resident physician of Vassar college, 1884-86, and removed to Brooklyn, N.Y., where she engaged in practice, 1886-96. She was appointed lecturer on physiology at the Chautauqua Summer School of Physical Education, 1888, and in 1896 was elected professor of hygiene in the department of literature, science and the arts, and "dean of women" in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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