- MARY LLOYD EWING, M.D., of Evansville, Rock County, is a
distinguished member of the
- homeopathic school of medicine, and has built up a large
and lucrative practice in the city and vicinity. She was born
at Zilwaukee, Mich., near Saginaw, a daughter of Charles H. and
Lucy (GREEN) EWING, natives of Vermont and New York, respectively.
They had four daughters and two sons, and three of their children
are now living: Dr. Mary L.; Ella, wife of Herman LANGEMAK, of
Evansville; and Robert, of Gladstone, Mich., a conductor on the
Northern Pacific road. The father was a merchant in Zilwaukee
for a number of years. His father came to Genesee County, Mich.,
when Charles H. was a child, and the latter spent the greater
part of his youth at Flint, Mich., where he grew to manhood,
obtaining his education in Detroit and Flint, and he was a school
teacher before his marriage. His wedding was celebrated at Flushing,
Mich., and he subsequently went to Zilwaukee and established
himself in a general mercantile business. He was postmaster at
that place three or four terms, receiving his commission from
President Lincoln. He spent his last years on his father's farm
near Flint, and died there in 1870, when only thirty-seven years
old. In religious connection he was an Episcopalian, and his
wife a Congregationalist.
- Ezekiel EWING, our subject's grandfather was a native of
Vermont. He was one of the first
- settlers in Michigan, surveyed and laid out all the roads
and towns in Genesee county and some in neighboring counties.
He also engaged in farming. He was the father of two sons, and
died when young. Robert GREEN, the father of Mrs. Lucy EWING,
was a native of New York, of English descent, and lived to be
sixty. He was a lumberman by occupation, and in his home in Michigan
became quite noted. He married Rachel TAGGERT, and they had four
daughters. Mrs. GREEN was of Puritan stock, and was born in Massachusetts,
of which state her father, a Congregational minister, was also
a native; he was at one time a member of Congress. The TAGGERT
family has a long and honorably history in Massachusetts.
- Dr. EWING lived in Flint until she was about eight years
of age, when her father died. Soon
- afterward the family moved to Appleton, Wis., where our subject
grew to womanhood, attending the public schools and later Ripon
College. At the age of eighteen she secured entrance in the Cook
County (Chicago) Hospital, and had two years' training as a nurse.
She was also in a private hospital at Memphis, Tenn., for six
months, and the next six months had charge of the male department
of the insane asylum at Dunning, Ill., after her retirement from
that position engaging in private nursing for a time. By this
time she had gained such an insight into the practice of medicine
that she thought it wise to go farther, and learn the science
and art itself. She matriculated at Hahnemann College, Chicago,
was graduated in 1892, and at once began to practice in that
city, where she was engaged two years. She then came to Evansville,
liked the place, and opening an office for the practice of her
profession, has remained there to the present time, and has a
wide circle of friends and patrons. She has a general practice,
and stands high in her profession; belongs to the Wisconsin State
Medical Association and attends the meetings of the Northern
Illinois Medical Society and the Chicago Medical Society, before
both of which bodies she has read papers, and has been highly
complimented for her grasp of the subject and her power of expression.
Dr. EWING has a finely appointed office on Madison street, where
she and her mother reside. She belongs to the Congregational
Church, is active in Christian Endeavor work, and has charge
of the banner Junior Endeavor Society of the State.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 87-88.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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