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Frances M. Hollingshead
Frances Murdoch Hollingshead (June 30, 1876 – February 28, 1963) was an American physician and public health official. She was director of the Buffalo Foundation. She went to France with the American Red Cross during World War I. Early life and education Hollingshead was born in Cincinnati, the daughter of Marcus (Mark) Hollingshead and Rosalie Gilbert Murdoch Hollingshead. Her grandfather was actor James Edward Murdoch. She earned a medical degree from Miami University, Miami Medical School in Ohio in 1904, and was the first woman to serve an internship at The Christ Hospital, Christ Hospital in Cincinnati. Her sister Lily Hollingshead James was an elocutionist. Career Hollingshead was trained as an anesthetist. She was a public health physician, and director of the Division of Child Hygiene in the Ohio State Department of Health. "She is considered the chief promoter of Baby Week in Ohio," noted an Ohio newspaper in 1916. She served on the Board of Directors of the Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cincinnati
Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky. The city is the economic and cultural hub of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. With an estimated population of 2,256,884, it is Ohio's largest metropolitan area and the nation's 30th-largest, and with a city population of 309,317, Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and 64th in the United States. Throughout much of the 19th century, it was among the top 10 U.S. cities by population, surpassed only by New Orleans and the older, established settlements of the United States eastern seaboard, as well as being the sixth-most populous city from 1840 until 1860. As a rivertown crossroads at the junction of the North, South, East, and West, Cincinnati developed with fewer immigrants and less influence from Europe than Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
