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Sarah Garland Boyd Jones (née Sarah Garland Boyd; 1866May 11, 1905) was an American physician from the
U.S. state
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of Virginia
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. She was the first woman to receive a certificate from the Virginia State Medical Examining Board, and with her husband, co-founded a hospital in Richmond, Virginia
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Biography
Sarah Garland Boyd was born inAlbemarle County, Virginia
Albemarle County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its county seat is Charlottesville, which is an independent city and enclave entirely surrounded by the county. Albemarle County is part of the Cha ...
. She was the daughter of George W. Boyd, the leading African American contractor and builder of Richmond, Virginia
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, remembered for the Maggie L. Walker house; and Ellen Boyd. She was educated in the public schools of Richmond, and after graduating in 1883 from Richmond Colored Normal School with Maggie L. Walker
Maggie Lena (née Draper Mitchell) Walker (July 15, 1864 – December 15, 1934) was a businesswoman and teacher. In 1903, Walker became both the first African American woman to charter a bank and the first African American woman to serve as ...
, she taught in the Richmond schools for five years.
In 1888, she married Miles Berkley Jones, who, at that time, was also a teacher, and later, G. W. A. Secretary of the True Reformers. From 1890 to 1893, Jones attended Howard University
Howard University (Howard) is a Private university, private, University charter#Federal, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classifie ...
Medical College, sessions 23 to 25, and graduated as a medical doctor in 1893. She passed the Virginia State Medical Examining Board, receiving over 90 per cent on the examination in surgery. Jones was the first woman to receive a certificate from the board. Thereafter, she practiced medicine in Richmond. With her husband, who also became a physician, she opened Richmond Hospital, which was also known as the Women's Central Hospital.
Personal life
Jones died May 11, 1905. Her sister, who also became a physician, married her brother-in-law, the widower, Miles Berkley Jones, The Sarah G. Jones Memorial Hospital, Medical College and Training School for Nurses was named in her honor in 1922.References
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