Eunice P. Shadd

Eunice P. Shadd (1848 – January 4, 1887) was a Canadian-American physician. She was one of the first black women to graduate from Howard University College of Medicine.[1]

Eunice P. Shadd
Born1848
Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada
DiedJanuary 4, 1887
Xenia, Ohio
Other namesEunice Lindsay
EducationM.D., Howard University, 1877
OccupationPhysician
Spouse(s)
Frank T. Lindsay
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(m. 1877)​
Parent(s)Abraham D. Shadd
Harriet Burton Parnell
RelativesMary Ann Shadd (sister)

Life

Eunice Shadd was born in 1848 in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada. She was one of 13 children born to Abraham D. Shadd and Harriet Burton Parnell, who were free African-Americans. Their eldest child, Mary Ann Shadd, became a prominent journalist and anti-slavery activist.

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[2] and graduated in 1872.[3] Shadd taught public school, and then enrolled in Howard's medical program in 1875. At Howard, Shadd studied with Charles Purvis.[2]

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.[4][5]

Eunice Shadd died on January 4, 1887 in Xenia.[5]

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. Moldow, Gloria (1987). Women Doctors in Gilded-age Washington: Race, Gender, and Professionalization. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252013799.
  3. Brown, Letitia Woods; Lewis, Elsie M. (1972). Washington in the New Era, 1870-1970. Education Department, National Portrait Gallery. p. 26.
  4. Beckford, Geraldine Rhoades (2013). Biographical Dictionary of American Physicians of African Ancestry, 1800-1920. Africana Homestead Legacy Pb. pp. 199, 288. ISBN 9781937622183.
  5. Dept, Howard University Medical; Lamb, Daniel Smith (1900). A Historical, Biographical and Statistical Souvenir. Beresford. pp. 127, 214.
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