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Show 175 Dr. "Van" - Mary Emma Greene Van Schoonhaven-grandniece of Brigham Young. Mary Elizabeth Hillstead Shipp, another Shipp wife whom we have known as "Lizzie" was, by 1893, also a "practicing physician in Salt Lake City." She apparently had abandoned her earlier goal of becoming a professional musician. Because of economic stress within the family, Elizabeth never did have the opportunity to go back east to study. According to her daughter, Bardella, her mother's qualifications came from on-the-job training over a long period of time in assisting the "best" doctors in the area. She also systematically worked her way through all of Ellis's medical textbooks to better qualify herself for a wider range of services than obstetrics. Ellis, out of a deeply-felt gratitude, gave this cherished sister- wife all the training she could, in order to partially repay her for the willing sacrifices she made in providing monies during Ellis's Philadelphia years. NON-L.D.S. WOMEN DOCTORS By 1915 there were non-L.D.S. women appearing in Utah as doctors and enjoying active careers. "The two brilliant and successful physicians, Dr. Bell Anderson Gemmel and Dr. Elsie Ada Faust are practicing today in this city, and deserve to be mentioned with our own "Mormon" physicians, not only because they are able, and because they are women, but also because they are very near the line of kinship and fellowship which bind the genuine and true together in bonds of fellowship."11 (my emphasis) |