Ruth Webster Lathrop

Ruth Webster Lathrop (May 23, 1862 – July 31, 1940) was an American physician and medical school professor, who taught physiology at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

Ruth Webster Lathrop
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Ruth Webster Lathrop, from a 1911 yearbook.
BornMay 23, 1862
New York
DiedJuly 31, 1940
Philadelphia
Occupation(s)Physician, medical school professor

Early life

Lathrop was from Le Roy, New York, the daughter of Francis Cuming Lathrop and Fannie Aurelia Comstock Lathrop.[1] She attended Ingham University in her hometown,[2] and graduated from Wellesley College in 1883. She earned a medical degree at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1891.[3][4]

Career

Lathrop taught physiology and anatomy courses at the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia.[5] She was one of several faculty who resigned in protest in 1923, when colleague Alice Weld Tallant's appointment was not renewed.[6] She later taught at Temple University School of Medicine.[7] She retired in 1937.[3]

Lathrop was one of the vice-presidents of the American Academy of Medicine, an affiliated society of the American Medical Association, focused on "sociological problems in the field of medicine".[8] She and her mother were charter members of the Independence Hall chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.[9] She was also active in the Philadelphia Wellesley Club,[10] and the Association of Collegiate Alumnae.[11]

Personal life

Lathrop lived in Philadelphia with a fellow physician, Annie Bartram Hall. She died at their home in 1940, aged 78 years, from heat exhaustion.[3][7] At her request, her remains were dressed in academic regalia for cremation.[12]

References
  1. Daughters of the American Revolution (1905). Lineage Book. The Society. p. 194.
  2. "One of the first Students of Ingham University is dead". Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express. 1908-07-03. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-09-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Dr. Ruth Lathrop Dies in 79th Year". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1940-08-01. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-09-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Was It Too Mannish?". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1891-05-07. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-09-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Konkle, Burton Alva (1897). Standard History of the Medical Profession of Philadelphia. Goodspeed Bros. p. 340.
  6. Peitzman, Steven Jay (2000). A New and Untried Course: Woman's Medical College and Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1998. Rutgers University Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-8135-2816-8.
  7. "Woman Physician Dies". The Baltimore Sun. 1940-08-01. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-09-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Three Medical Meets On". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1910-06-05. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-09-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "CHAPTER HISTORY". IndependenceHall DAR. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  10. "Alumnae Notes". Wellesley Magazine. 7: 339–340. March 1899.
  11. "Committee on Credentials". The Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. 5: 206. March 1912.
  12. "Brother and Friend Share Estate of Dr. Ruth Lathrop". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1940-09-14. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-09-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  • Ruth Webster Lathrop, "Women Physicians as Teachers" The Woman's Medical Journal 18(April 1908): 70. A paper read before the Woman's Medical Society of the State of New York, March 1908.
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