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Show 178 practice medicine and surgery among the saints: Romania Bunnell Pratt, by John Taylor; Ellis Reynolds Shipp, by George Q. Cannon; Margaret Curtis Shipp, by John Taylor; Martha Hughes Paul, by George Q. Cannon. The first two sisters were graduates of the Philadelphia College, and Sister Margaret Curtis Shipp had been studying medicine and surgery in the Eastern States."1 Ellis was in medical college for 2 1/2 years; yet Maggie, beginning her training in the fall of 1877, did not finish until 1883, thereby taking 5 1/2 years. Why? From the few available facts it is possible to make an educated guess. While Maggie was attending the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia, Milford was enrolled at a men's college in the same city. Lizzie's daughter Bardella said that "the couple", after being enrolled in medical college for two years, took a vacation and were not able to return until four years later. Her chronology does not correlate with known dates for many of the other things she covered, and some of her facts are not to be relied upon, but we may assume from the foregoing that there was some interruption of their studies, which no doubt contributed to the length of time between Ellis's graduation in 1878 and theirs in 1883.2 What did Maggie's proximity create for Milford? Companionship. For Maggie? Babies-(four) born after she began school in 1877 and including the year she finished. Ellis and Lizzie had babies, too, during those years, but Maggie's four-all born in Salt Lake City and probably all delivered by Ellis-surely constituted repeated interruptions to her studies. If Ellis, in going home once during her 2 1/2 years, was concerned |