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Dr. Hannah E. Longshore
Dr. HANNAH E. LONGSHORE was the first to put up her professional "sign" in Philadelphia.
She was born May 30, 1819, in Maryland. Her parents were Quakers. She married when twenty-two ; and, when the youngest of her two children was four years old, she commenced the study of medicine with her husband's brother, Prof. I. S. Longshore, whose books and
maps, skeletons, &c., were at her service. She was one of the ten members who composed the first graduating class of the Woman's Medical College in Pennsylvania.
She was immediately elected "
Demonstrator of Anatomy," and served acceptably in that capacity.
Afterward she delivered lectures to women on medical themes. She
afterward relinquished all but private practice, and in this was
remarkably successful.
Her sister, JANE V. MEYERS, M.D., resided in her family, and had a large practice. An older half-sister, MARY F. THOMAS, M.D., now residing in Indiana, has been active and successful for several years.
For two years Dr. Thomas was editor, and for a longer time contributor, to a semi-monthly journal devoted mainly to the cause of woman, published in Richmond, Io.
During the Rebellion she was occupied much in collecting and distributing supplies ; and a portion of the time her husband, O. Thomas, M.D., and herself, had charge of a hospital in
Tennessee.
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