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Dr. Josephine B. Mix
Dr. JOSEPHINE B. MIX is now practising in Chicago, having been graduated in New York City, and practised with success in that city and vicinity for a few years.
She was born March 16, 1837, in Wheeling, Va., whither her parents had removed from Western New York. She is the youngest of eight children. She began her work in life with teaching for a short time, acting as clerk in a store, and using the needle; then was married, and was one among the army of widows whose husbands died for liberty. After various trials and struggles, she commenced the study of medicine in Philadelphia. She decided, however, to attend the
Eclectic Medical College of New York City; and holds the first matriculation ticket ever given by that institution to a woman, and the fourth ever issued to any student.
Dr. Mix's maiden name was Dexter; and on her father's side she is a descendant of Rev. Gregory Dexter, who came to Rhode Island in 1640, and was the personal friend of Roger Williams. He was the
first practical printer who came to this country, and was the fourth pastor of the Baptist Church in Providence. Dr. Mix is a descendant of the eldest son, in the seventh generation. On her mother's side she was also of Baptist stock; for her mother's father was Rev. Asa Turner, a Baptist minister of Western New York. For many years she was connected with the
same denomination ; but in 1875 united with the Universalists, and is now connected with Rev. Dr. Ryder's church in Chicago, in which city she is busily engaged in a benevolent enterprise and in the work of her profession.
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