September 1885 · Terra Alta / Wheeling
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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- Citation / research lead
Gibson Lamb Cranmer, History of Wheeling City and Ohio County (1902), pp. 365–366
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