Rosalie Slaughter Morton, M.D. (1872-1968)

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The childhood home of Rosalie S. Morton, surgeon and public health advocate, stood on the present site of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Morton graduated from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1897 and trained in Europe and Asia. She led a nationwide public-health initiative for the American Medical Association beginning in 1909. During World War I, Morton worked in field hospitals on the Salonika Front and was a founder of the American Women’s Hospitals service, which opened its first hospital in 1918 in France. She established the International Serbian Educational Committee in 1919. Morton received decorations for distinguished service from the governments of France and Serbia.

Department of Historic Resources, 2018

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Rosalie S. Morton, A Woman Surgeon: The Life and Work of Rosalie Slaughter Morton (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1937). Rosalie S. Morton, Social Security Applications and Claims Index. Rosalie Slaughter, U.S. passport application, Sept. 1898. Sanborn Maps, 1885 and 1890. Lynchburg City Directory, 1875-1876, 1885-1886. Lynchburg City Deed Book, 30 Sept. 1887. U.S. Census, 1880. Lynchburg News, 6, 8 May 1968. New-York Tribune, 7 April, 21 July, 11 Nov. 1909, 3 March 1918. Washington Herald, 2 Feb. 1919. Miami Herald, 16 June 1929. “Developing International Minds,” The Survey (15 July 1922). M. Gottlieb correspondence with Amber Dushman of the American Medical Association, Nov. 2018. Minutes of the AMA General Assembly, 1909. American Women’s Hospitals records finding aid: http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/detail.html?id=PACSCL_DUCOM_wmsc010xml Janet Shaffer, “Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton—Woman Pioneer in Medicine,” Lynch’s Ferry (Spring/Summer 1999): 23-30. Ellen S. More, “’A Certain Restless Ambition’: Women Physicians and World War I,” American Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4 (Dec. 1989): 636-660. S. Allen Chambers Jr., Lynchburg: An Architectural History (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981).