Emeline Cleveland, M.D.
(1820 - 1908)
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Mrs. Emeline (Horton) Cleveland, M.D.- From Dr. G. F.
Horton’ s Horton gen. 217 .- — Grad. from the Ladies’ Dep. of Oberlin College 1853, and from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania 1855; was elected to the Chair of Anatomy in that college 1857, which she held until 1862, when she was transferred to the Chair of Obstetrics. This she still occupies, and is a member of the Board of Corporators.
In 1860, at the solicitation of philanthropic ladies of Philadelphia, who had in view the establishment of a Hospital for Women and Children, Professor Cleveland went abroad for medical study, and to learn the arrangements and management of hospitals. She entered the School of Obstetrics in connection with the Maternite of Paris, and after receiving the diploma of that institution found ready access to the other hospitals. On her return she was chosen Resident Physician of the Woman’s Hospital, which position she filled 7 years. She has been one of the Managers of the Hospital from its organization, and a member of the Consulting Board since her retirement from the office of Resident Physician.
Prof. Cleveland delivered the address of welcome, and. was heartily cheered, at the Horton reunion, Philadelphia, Aug. 24, 1876. — See Proceedings of the Horton Family Gathering, p. 2.
The Eighteenth Annual Report of the Woman’s Hospital refers to the valuable services of Dr. Cleveland in the inception and through the subsequent growth of that noble institution.
The following addresses of Prof. Cleveland have been published in pamphlet form: Introductory Lecture to Class of Female College of Pa., session 1858-9, 8°, pp. 16; Valedictory Address to Graduating Class Female Medical College of Pa., at the nth Annual Commencement, Mar. 14^1863, 16 pp.; Valedictory Address Woman’s Med. Coll., Mar. 14, 1868, pp. 12.
Papers read at the Memorial Hour commemorative of the late Prof. Emeline H. Cleveland, M.D., west lecture room of Woman’s Medical College of Pa., Philadelphia, Wednesday, Mar. 12, 1879, 8 P.M. — Tributes: from Faculty, by Prof. Rachel L. Bodley ; from Students; Alumnae Assn.; Medical Friends, and from Corporators.
A life-size bust of Dr. Emeline H. Cleveland occupies a conspicuous position at the College.