September 1885
Terra Alta-raised Harriet B. Jones begins practicing medicine in Wheeling
After growing up in Terra Alta and graduating with honors from the Woman’s Medical College of Baltimore in 1884, Harriet B. Jones began practicing medicine in Wheeling in September 1885. She became the first woman licensed as a physician in West Virginia and later specialized in gynecology and abdominal surgery.
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Gibson Lamb Cranmer, History of Wheeling City and Ohio County (1902), pp. 365–366; National Library of Medicine, Changing the Face of Medicine, “Dr. Harriet B. Jones”; West Virginia and Regional History Center, “Dr. Harriet B. Jones, West Virginia Physician, Suffragist, and Activist”
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Portrait of Harriet B. Jones, circa 1897
This portrait was published circa 1897, about twelve years after Jones began practicing medicine in Wheeling.
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