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Clara Marshall was born in 1848 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, of Quaker family. She was the daughter of Pennock and Mary (Phillips) Marshall.
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Clara Marshall was born in 1848 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, of Quaker family. She was the daughter of Pennock and Mary (Phillips) Marshall.
She attended the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, graduating in the class of 1875. Although the college had been in existence since 1850, it was still small and had been able to achieve little standing in medical circles. Clara Marshall became identified with the faculty immediately after graduation and worked for the improvement of the college and the recognition of its graduates throughout a long career. It was largely through her efforts and those of the group with which she was associated that success was attained.
Her entry in 1875 opened to women the doors of the Philadelphia School of Pharmacy and Science. She was so successful as a student that she was assigned the task of arranging the pharmaceutical display at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. During the year 1875-76, she served the Woman's Medical College as demonstrator of pharmacy. The following year she was made professor of materia medica and therapeutics, a post she held for thirty years. She acted as dean from 1888 till 1917, and continued at the college as emeritus professor until 1923. In all her activities, she was noted for energy and enthusiasm. She was responsible for the addition of many new departments to the college, and at the beginning of the century, when it became necessary for a standard medical college to have its own hospital, she secured funds to add a hospital building to the Woman's Medical College. It is largely to her credit that the school received a rating of Grade A when the medical colleges of the country were inspected and classified in the years 1905-09. In addition to her teaching, she practised medicine in Philadelphia for many years. In 1882 she acted as obstetrician at the Philadelphia Hospital, and in 1886 she was appointed attending physician to the girls' department of the Philadelphia House of Refuge. In 1893 she was lecturer at the Nurses Training School of the Jefferson Hospital. She was the first woman to address the graduating classes of nurses at the St. Agnes Hospital and at Bryn Mawr Hospital. Her lecture, "Fifty Years in Medicine", bears upon the place of women in the profession and their contribution to the science. She died in March 1931, at the age of eighty-three.
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Because of her interest in politics she was asked to address a convention of women suffragists that met in Richmond in 1898.
A woman of decisive and energetic character, she made her choice of career early in life and carried out her plans with thoroughness.
There is no information about her personal life. Perhaps she was never married.