Alfreda Bosworth Withington

Withington was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, where her father, James Hervey Withington, was headmaster of Germantown Academy.[1] She was named for her mother, Alfreda Bosworth.[2] She attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York from 1877 to 1881. She then interned at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, but was refused a position at the Infirmary, as none of the directors would agree to let her take the entrance examination.[3] At the age of 63, she obtained a Kentucky medical license and traveled to work as a medical settlement physician for 7 years, between 1924 and 1931, ordinarily making calls on horseback.[4] Withington wrote her memoir titled Mine Eyes Have Seen in 1941.[5] On October 1, 1951, she died and was buried in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.[6]