Background
Morton, Rosalie Slaughter was born on October 28, 1876 in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. Daughter of John Flavel and Mary Haines (Harker) Slaughter.
Morton, Rosalie Slaughter was born on October 28, 1876 in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. Daughter of John Flavel and Mary Haines (Harker) Slaughter.
Student private schools, Virginia and Maryland. Doctor of Medicine with honors, Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1897. Interne City Hospital, Philadelphia, 1897.
Resident physician Alumni Hospital and Dispensary Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1897-1898.
Post-graduate study in nervous diseases, gynecology and surgery, Berlin, Vienna, Paris and London, 1899-1901. Tropical diseases, Ceylon and India, 1901.
Honorary Doctor Humanities, Rollins College, 1929. Doctor of Science, Rutgers, 1939.
Practiced at Washington, 1902-1905, New York, 1906-1929. At Winter Park, Florida, since 1930, specializing in endocrinology and arthritis. Clinical assistant and instructor gynecology, 1912-1914, lecturer on surgery, 1914-1916, Adjunct Professor gynecology, 1916-1918, New York Polytechnic Medical school and Hospital.
Attdg. surgeon, Vanderbilt Clinic of College Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia), 1916-1918.
Founded social service department New York Polyclinic Hospital, 1917. Visiting surgeon and consultant Volunteer Hospital, 1919-1923.
Member visiting staff Orange General Hospital since 1930. Specialist in treatment of arthritis since 1929.
Active service in France and on Salonica front, 1916.
Was first chairman war service committee of America Women's National Association. Founder and first chairman of America Women's Hospitals. Under appointment of the United States Government represented 6,000 women physicians on United States Council National Defense, Washington, 1917-1918, World War.
Provided hospital equipment for 2 Yugoslav hospitals, and tuberculosis camp for children under Serbian Red Cross, 1919.
Founder and chairman International Serbian Ednl. Committee, under which 60 Yugoslav students were educated in American universities, 1919-1928.
Lectured widely in the United States, also in Serbia, Australia and South Africa. Commissioner on International Education to England, France, Germany and Italy, 1921-1926.
From League of America Pen Women and Women's Medical Society of New York State to South Africa, 1926, to Iraq and Iran, 1935.
Delegate Pan Pacific Scientific Congress, Australia, 1923. To Congress of Societies to Promote League of Nations, France, 1924. Ambassador of good will from various organizations to Mexico, Hayti and Porto Rico, 1928, 29.
Honorary president and ambassador of good will to medical women in Near and Middle East, summer 1935.
Business and professional commissioner of national and international associations to Greece, Turkey and Syria, summer 1935. Foreign distinguished services on Salonica front, on Mediterranean, in Serbia, Yugoslavia and France, was decorated 9 times by France, Serbia and State of New York, 1916-1923.
Tree in Honor Grove, Central Park, New York, planted in her honor for distinguished patriotic service,” 1926. Awarded Palm of Officer French Academy, 1927.
Presented with loving cup by a group of members of America Medical Association, 1934.
Fellow American Medical Association. Member Florida Medical Association, Orange County Medical Society (Florida) Women's Medical Association New York City (president 1917-1918), Woman’s Medical Society State of New York (president 1927-1928), National Institute Social Sciences, Colonial Dames, Daughters of American Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy, National Society Patriotic Women of America, Society of Virginia Women in New York, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Association University Women, League of America Pen Women, Institute of International Education, New York Academy Sciences, American Red Cross (life. Club: Zonta (twice president).
Has studied sociological and economic problems in Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Married George B. Morton, Junior, September 1905 (died 1912).