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Catherine Underwood Jewell, M.D.
CATHERINE UNDERWOOD JEWELL, M.D., is mentioned With warm commendation by Mrs. SARAH
BURGES STEARNS (herself a faithful worker for women ever since the hour when, as a young student, she sought to open the doors of Michigan University to woman, as a lecturer, writer, and philanthropist).
Dr. Jewell died in Minnesota, March 30, 1873. She was a graduate of the "Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. " She was the dear friend and almost constant companion of Dr. ANN PRESTON, who did so much for the college during the many years that she was connected with it as professor of physiology and hygiene. Miss Underwood was very thorough in her preparation for medical practice. For nearly five years she continued her studies at this institution and at the New York Infirmary for Women under the supervision of Drs. Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell. She was a birthright Quaker, and was liberal in her religious views.
She practised for some time in Bloomington, Ill., and was there married to Dr. P. A. Jewell of Ann Arbor, Mich., where she practised till, robbing herself of outer clothing for another's protection, she suffered from an attack of pneumonia ; and thence came consumption, to cure which she and her husband removed to Minnesota in 1867. But health only came to her in a fairer clime, 'the land which no mortal may know.'
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