Jennie Lozier
Jennie Lozier | |
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| Occupation(s) | physician, educator |
| Relatives | Clemence S. Lozier (mother-in-law) |
Jeanne de la Montagnie Lozier (c. 1841 – August 6, 1915) was an American physician and educator from New York City. She worked as an instructor of languages and literature in Hillsdale College from the age of nineteen, and after earning her medical degree from New York Medical College, became a professor of physiology. She was a delegate to the International Homoeopathic Congress in Paris in 1889 and was president of Sorosis Club from 1891 to 1894.[1][2]
Early life and education
Jeanne "Jennie" de la Montagnie was born in New York in 1841
Career
Medical career
After graduating from Rutgers Female Institute, Lozier traveled in the West Indies. When she was nineteen years old, she began teaching language and literature at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. Thereafter, she was elected vice principal of the college's women's department. Returning to New York in 1872, she married widower Abraham Witton Lozier, the father of two children and the only son of her lifelong friend Clemence S. Lozier.[4]
Lozier became interested in medicine through her mother-in-law, Clemence S. Lozier, the founder and long-term dean of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women. Lozier became a Doctor of Medicine shortly after giving birth to her first and only biological child. She then became a professor of physiology at her alma mater and served on the hospital’s staff. After twelve years, she retired from the profession and devoted herself to domestic, social and educational interests.[5]
In 1889, New York Medical College sent Lozier to Paris as a delegate to the International Homeopathic Congress. She presented a paper in French on the medical education of women in the United States, which was printed in full in the subsequent congressional transactions.
Club memberships
Lozier was also the president of two other clubs: the Emerson, a club of men and women belonging to R. Heber Newton's church, of which she was a member, and the Avon, was a fortnightly drawing-room club. Additionally, she was a member of the science committee of the Association for the Advancement of Women and of the Patria Club. She read papers before various literary and reform associations in and near New York City.[5]
Private life
Lozier's family, consisting of her husband, two sons, and one daughter, spent their summers on
She studied literature and art and advocated for more liberal education for women. As she had done, she wanted other women to be able to study art, music, chemistry, social economics, psychology, pedagogy, and physiology.[5]
Death
Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier died at her summer home in New Brighton, Staten Island, on August 6, 1915.[3]
References
- ^ a b White 1906, p. 420.
- ^ "The President of Sorosis". 19th Century U.S. Newspapers. Atchison, Kansas: Atchison Daily Globe. March 24, 1891. Retrieved December 2, 2017.
- ^ a b Wood 1915, p. 366.
- ^ a b Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 476.
- ^ a b c d e Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 477.
Attribution
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: White, J.T. (1906). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (Public domain ed.). J.T. White.- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 476.
- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Wood, W. (1915). Medical Record (Public domain ed.). W. Wood.
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