Seraph Frissell - Knowledge (XXG)

31: 226:. As a child she was reportedly quiet and diffident, not mingling freely with her schoolmates, and with a deep reverence for religious things. Frissell's father died when she was eleven years old, leaving her mother financially responsible for herself and six children, Seraph being the third. At the age of twelve, Frissell was sent to live with an aunt for a year in 247:. In the fall of 1861, she enrolled in the Seminary, where she remained for one year. Then followed one year of teaching, and a second year in the seminary. After four years more of teaching, in the fall of 1868 she resumed her studies and graduated in July, 1869, having completed the four years' course in three years, in the meanwhile teaching for five years. 645: 624: 603: 578: 557: 230:, during which time she derided she would rather earn her own living, if possible, than be dependent on relatives. Returning home, the next year and a half were devoted to school life and helping a neighbor in household work, thereby earning necessary clothing. When she was fifteen, her oldest sister decided to seek employment in a 347:

Medical Society in 1885, being the first woman in Western Massachusetts to be admitted to any district medical society, the law to admit women having been passed in 1884. She was a regular member of the Berkshire, Bennington, Rennsalaer, and Washington County Medical Society from its organization

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of that city. For seven years, she was president of the Woman's Board of Missions of the South Church. She has been superintendent of the Department of Heredity and Health, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, for Hampden County. She died in 1915, and was buried in the Peru Center Cemetery, Peru,

262:, but in deference to her mother's wishes, she did not embark upon the mission. The following three years were spent in teaching, during which time the question of taking up the study of medicine was often considered. She began the study of medicine in 1872, in the medical department of the 178:, on August 20, 1840, the daughter of Augustus Caæsar and Laura Mack (Emmons) Frissell. Her grandparents were Thomas and Hannah (Phillips) Frissell; and Ichabod and Mindwell (Mack) Emmons. Her father and her paternal grandfather had both served as captains in the 242:

The next six years were divided between a factory girl's life and school life. During those years she earned her living and, besides contributing a certain amount for benevolent and missionary purposes, saved enough for one year's expenses in

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Frissell was involved in many of the progressive movements of the day. She was a member of the First Congregational Church of Springfield. During her residence in Pittsfield, she was elected the first president of the

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at Mount Holyoke College. Her specialty was diseases of women and children. A part of her professional success she attributed to not prescribing alcoholic stimulants.

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District Medical Society made Frissell an honorary member in 1877, and she attended its monthly meetings, receiving notices as a regular member.

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A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life

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Physicians and Surgeons of America: (Illustrated). A Collection of Biographical Sketches of the Regular Medical Profession

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to be admitted to any district medical society, and the fourth woman to be admitted a member of the

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Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan from January 1870 to January 1876

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Medical Society. Women were first admitted to medical societies in Massachusetts in 1884; but the

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until she left Berkshire county. She was the fourth woman to be admitted a member of the

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settler in western Massachusetts. Her mother's father, Ichabod Emmons, was a relative of

588: 352:. She was an honorary member of the Alumna' Association of the Woman's Medical College, 198:. Her grandfather. David Mack, was the second settler to make a clearing in the town of 397: 223: 146: 672: 649: 628: 607: 582: 561: 368:; of the Springfield Mount Holyoke Alumna' Association; of the Alumna Association of 294:, Boston, Massachusetts, for hospital and dispensary work; and six months at Doctors 287: 154: 380: 353: 655: 231: 392: 333: 255: 149:

who specialized in diseases of women and children. She was the first woman in

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Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution

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The first eleven years of Frissell's life were spent within sight of

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