Eunice P. Shadd

Eunice P. Shadd, also known as Eunice Lindsay (1846 – January 4, 1887), was an American-Canadian physician born in Pennsylvania and raised in Chatham, Ontario. She was one of the first black women to graduate from Howard University College of Medicine.[1]

Eunice P. Shadd
Born1846
West Chester, Pennsylvania
DiedJanuary 4, 1887
Xenia, Ohio
Other namesEunice Lindsay
EducationM.D., Howard University College of Medicine, 1877
OccupationPhysician
Spouse
Frank T. Lindsay
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(m. 1877)​
Parent(s)Abraham D. Shadd
Harriet Burton Parnell
RelativesMary Ann Shadd (sister)
Isaac Shadd (brother)

Early life

Eunice Shadd was born in 1846 in West Chester, Pennsylvania.[2][lower-alpha 1] She was raised Catholic as one of 13 children born to Abraham D. Shadd and Harriet Burton Parnell, who were free African-Americans.[2][3][4] Her father was a conductor on the Underground Railroad and known throughout anti-slavery activists.[3]

Abraham moved his family in 1853 to Canada West (Ontario after Canadian confederation in 1867). Abraham was a landowner, politician, activist, and a farmer.[5][lower-alpha 2] He continued his efforts to aid people escape slavery in Canada.[3] Her siblings were well-educated, many of her sisters were teachers.[3] Her oldest sister, Mary Ann Shadd, became a prominent journalist. Her brother Isaac Shadd (also known as I.D. Shadd) was a prominent and influential newspaper publisher, printer, and bookkeeper before he became Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives.[7][lower-alpha 3]

Adulthood

Eunice Shadd left Canada and moved to Washington, D.C. to be with her siblings Mary Ann and Abraham. She enrolled in the Howard University Normal School in 1870[8] and graduated in 1872.[9] Shadd taught public school, and then enrolled in Howard's medical program in 1875. At Howard, Shadd studied with Charles Purvis.[8]

Shadd graduated from Howard University College of Medicine in 1877. That same year, she married Dr. Frank T. Lindsay, who had graduated from the Howard medical program in 1875. The couple then moved to Xenia, Ohio, where both practiced medicine.[10][11]

Personal life

Shadd married Frank T. Lindsay, who was born in Jamestown, North Carolina, on December 28, 1849. He attended Oberlin College, Santhale Seminary, and Howard University College of Medicine, graduating in 1875 with a medical degree.[12]

Eunice Shadd died on January 4, 1887, in Xenia.[11] Lindsay remarried after Shadd's death.[12]

Notes
  1. From the 1850 census, Isaac was born in 1829 or 1830. He was the oldest of the siblings at home. Both Isaac and Amelia were born in Delaware. The rest of the children - Joseph, Sinclair, Emeline, Garrison, Sarah, Ada, Abraham, Eunice, and Sarah - were born in Pennsylvania. Harriet (49) was born in North Carolina, as was a woman old enough to be her mother, Mary Burton (70).[2]
  2. Her siblings, Isaac Shadd and Mary Ann Shadd, moved to Ontario, Canada about the time that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (September 18, 1850) was enacted that made it easier for slave takers to take runaway and free people into slavery from northern states.[6][5] Mary Ann had written a pamphlet, "A Plea for Emigration, or Notes on Canada West in Its Moral, Social and Political Aspect" that informed free and enslaved blacks of the benefits of moving to Canada for freedom.[5]
  3. A newspaper said that her brother J.D. Shadd was a Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives,[3] which may be confused with her brother Isaac (I.D.) Shadd.[7]

References
  1. Aptheker, Bettina; Aptheker, Laura G. (1982). Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History. Univ of Massachusetts Press. p. 100. ISBN 9780870233654.
  2. "Isaac Shadd, West Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania", Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, Washington, D.C.: National Archives
  3. "J.D. Shadd 1874". New National Era. 1874-04-16. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  4. "Mary Ann Shadd Cary". UNSUNG HISTORY. Retrieved 2023-08-21.
  5. Robinson, Gwen. "Shadd, Abraham D". www.chatham-kent.ca. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
  6. Nave, R. L. (January 4, 2012). "Lessons from the Past". Jackson Free Press. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
  7. Baldwin, DeeDee, History Research Librarian (2020). "Isaac D. Shadd (Warren County)". Mississippi State University Libraries. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/GAX6F.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. Moldow, Gloria (1987). Women Doctors in Gilded-age Washington: Race, Gender, and Professionalization. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252013799.
  9. Brown, Letitia Woods; Lewis, Elsie M. (1972). Washington in the New Era, 1870-1970. Education Department, National Portrait Gallery. p. 26.
  10. Beckford, Geraldine Rhoades (2013). Biographical Dictionary of American Physicians of African Ancestry, 1800-1920. Africana Homestead Legacy Pb. pp. 199, 288. ISBN 9781937622183.
  11. Dept, Howard University Medical; Lamb, Daniel Smith (1900). A Historical, Biographical and Statistical Souvenir. Beresford. pp. 127, 214.
  12. Department, Howard University Medical (1900). A Historical, Biographical and Statistical Souvenir. Beresford. p. 192.
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