Susan Rose, M.D.    

SUSAN F. ROSE, M. D., physician, Meadville, was born in the city of Philadelphia, September 21, 1845, and is a daughter of Peter and Eliza A. (Boyer) Rose. Her parents were also natives of Philadelphia, her father of Welsh and English, her mother of French descent. Peter Rose, who came with his family to this county about 1857, was a farmer and lumber dealer. He raised a family of eight children, Susan F. being the fourth. He died in 1882. Our subject received her education in the graded schools of her native city, and studied medicine under Dr. Smith in this county from 1872 to 1875. In 1873-74 she attended the Woman’s Medical College at Philadelphia, and graduated at the Homoeopathic Hospital and College at Cleveland, in the year 1875. She then commenced the practice of medicine at Townville, in this county, and two years later came to Meadville, where she has continued practice.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 767

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