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In 19th-century America, it was assumed that woman patients would be treated by male doctors. The idea of a "woman doctor" was deemed by many to lie somewhere between unfathomable and repugnant. Then along came Susan Dimock. A young North Carolinian who dreamed of becoming a physician, and grew up to practice medicine in Boston, Dimock was not the first American woman to battle the patriarchal medical establishment. But in the 1870s, she was arguably the best-educated, most-skilled woman surgeon in the nation as well as living proof that a woman could be competent, smart, lovely, and kind--all in the same package. Dimock's life reads like an adventure story, from recoiling at slave auctions ...
William J. Hicks was born 28 March 1820 in Tazewell County, Virginia. He married Oma or Naomi Reffitt in 1844. They had ten children. He died 3 February 1877 in Brush Creek, Hippo, Kentucky. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio.
John Wesley Ross, Sr. (1823-186_) married Rhoda Ann Standridge about 1840, and moved from Tennessee to Pope County, Arkansas before 1842. Descendants lived in Arkansas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.
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Chiefly a record of some of the ancestors of John Edward Vance. He was born 14 May 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, to Joseph Harvey Vance and Betty Joan Markwith. He married Marie Esterline in Ot 1968. He died 29 Jan 1969. Ancestors lived in the midwest and east coast areas of the United States.