Background
Eliza M. Mosher was born on October 2, 1846, in Cayuga County, New York, of conservative Quaker ancestry.
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Eliza M. Mosher was born on October 2, 1846, in Cayuga County, New York, of conservative Quaker ancestry.
Mosher overcame the objections interposed by family and friends and at the age of twenty entered the New England Hospital for Women and Children as the first step in the medical career to which she was determined to devote herself.
On October 3, 1871, she matriculated in the medical course of the University of Michigan which had only the year before opened its doors to women. She received her degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1875.
Then she opened her office for private practice in Poughkeepsie, New York, with a classmate, Dr. Elizabeth Hait Gerow. In 1877 she was made resident physician at the Massachusetts State Reformatory Prison for Women at Sherborn, Massachusetts.
Resigning in 1879 in order to study in Europe, she returned in 1881 as superintendent of the institution. An injury to her knee forced her to abandon this position, but while she was still on crutches her friend and former associate at the University of Michigan, Alice E. Freeman, then president of Wellesley College, induced her to lecture for two semesters in that young institution.
With Dr. Lucy Hall, with whom she had been associated at Sherborn, she opened an office in 1883 for private practice in Brooklyn, New York, but was almost immediately called to Vassar College as resident physician and professor of physiology and hygiene. Here she instituted the systematic physical examination of students. In 1886 she resumed her practice in Brooklyn.
Ten years later President James B. Angell asked her to the University of Michigan to become the first dean of women, and first professor of hygiene, sanitation, and household economics, positions which she held until 1902, when she again returned to her Brooklyn practice. Here she continued to work until in March 1928 she suffered an accident which caused her death a few months later on October 16, 1928.
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Testimony was forthcoming as to her services to the colleges Eliza Mosher had served; to the Union Missionary Training Institute where she had established a medical training department and herself taught the course in anatomy; to the Chautauqua Summer School which she had served twenty years as a member of the board of directors; to the American Posture League, of which she was a founder; to the American Women's Hospitals, of which she was a founder and a member of the board of governors for eleven years; to the Medical Women's National Association, of which she was honorary president; to Plymouth Congregational Church; to the medical societies; and to the city of Brooklyn.