Bethenia Owens-Adair
Bethenia A. Owens-Adair | |
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| Born | Bethenia Angelina Owens February 8, 1840 |
| Died | September 11, 1926 (aged 86) Clatsop County, Oregon |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Occupation | physician |
| Spouse(s) | LeGrand Henderson Hill John Adair |
Bethenia Angelina Owens-Adair (February 8, 1840 – September 11, 1926) was an American social reformer and one of the first female physicians in Oregon.[1][2]
Biography
Bethenia Owens was born on February 8, 1840, in Van Buren County, Missouri.[1] She was the third of eleven children born to Tom and Sarah Damron Owens.[1] The family traveled to the Oregon Country via the Oregon Trail in 1843 with the Jesse Applegate wagon train.[1][3] The family settled in the Clatsop Plains and later moved to Roseburg in the Umpqua Valley.[1][4]
At the age of 14, Owens married LeGrand Henderson Hill, one of her father's farmhands.[4][5] Their son George was born when Owens was 16.[1] She and Hill moved to Yreka, California so Hill could join the California Gold Rush.[5] She left Hill, and graduated from the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1874 (writing her thesis on Metritis)[6] and the University of Michigan.[1]
She practiced medicine in Roseburg, Portland, and Clatsop County, Oregon, and in Yakima, Washington.[1]
She married Col. John Adair, in 1884. They divorced in 1907.[1]
She worked in the temperance movement, and promoted the eugenics movement. She died on September 11, 1926, in Clatsop County.[1]
Further reading
- Owens-Adair, Bethenia Angelina (1906). Dr. Owens-Adair: Some of her Life Experiences.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Ward, Jean M. "Bethenia Owens-Adair (1840-1926)". The Oregon Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- ^ "Bethenia Angelina Owens-Adair". Find a grave memorial. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
- ^ Flora, Stephenie. "Emigrants to Oregon in 1843". oregonpioneers.com.
- ^ a b "Bethenia Owens-Adair (1840-1926)". Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- ^ a b Guardino, M. Constance, III; Rev. Marilyn A. Riedel (August 2010). "Sovereigns of Themselves: A Liberating History of Oregon and Its Coast, Volume I". Retrieved March 17, 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Abrahams, Harold J. (1966). Extinct medical schools of nineteenth-century Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. p. 317.
External links
- Bethenia Owens-Adair - Reformer, Doctor in the Oregon Blue Book
- November 20, 1873, letter from Jesse Applegate to Bethenia Owens-Adair from the Oregon Historical Society
- Dr. Owens-Adair on Eugenics from the Oregon State Hospital
- Works by or about Bethenia Owens-Adair at the Internet Archive
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