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and destruction in its wake. Thompson and her staff ensured her patients were cared for, and soon after reopened for burned and sick patients, male and female, in a private home on Adams street. In 1873, the Relief Aid
Society of Chicago donated $ 25,000 to reopen the hospital and treat patients, and Thompson used the money to open in a new location that same year. Along with the reopening of the hospital, many others in the community began to rebuild what the Chicago fire took, some making use of fireproof materials and others rebuilding with whatever materials were available to them.
235:. Shortly after her death, on June 27th in 1895 the board of the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children legally renamed the hospital the Mary Thompson Hospital of Chicago for Women and Children. The hospital closed in 1988 which was partly attributed to financial issues that made it difficult to keep open and running. In 1905, the hospital board gave the Art Institute of Chicago a marble sculpture titled Bust of Mary Harris Thompson that they commissioned from sculptor Daniel Chester French. Thompson is buried in Fort Ann Cemetery in
210:(AMA), and the AMA's first woman to present a paper to the Section on Diseases of Children, which earned her the distinct role of Section Chair. She published and presented several papers on women's health and childhood diseases during her career which had lasting impacts in the medical field. Thompson's private practice as an abdominal and pelvic surgeon was part of her hospital work, and for years she was the sole woman performing major surgery in Chicago.
134:, on April 15, 1829. She was the daughter of John Harris and Calista Corbin Thompson. She began her studies at a nearby school, then transferred to Fort Edward Institute, New York which offered college preparatory classes among others. She continued her studies at a Methodist school, Troy Conference Academy, located in West Poultney,
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