Ethel Amanda (Edgerton) Hurd (1845 - 1929)

Born 11 Aug 1845 in Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, USA

Wife of Tyrus J. Hurd — married 22 Feb 1865 in Henry, Illinois, United States

Died 20 Aug 1929 at age 84 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA [uncertain]

Biography

From Woman’s Who’s Who of America, p. 417:

HURD, Ethel Edgerton, 602 Nicollet Av., Minneapolis, Minn. Physician; b. Galesburg, Ill., Aug. 11, 1845; dau. S. Everest and Martha L. (Belding) Edgerton; ed. public school and Knox Coll.; Univ. of Minn. Med. Dep't, M.D.; m. Woodhull, III., Feb. 22, 1865, Capt. Tyrus I. Hurd (now deceased); children: Addle (deceased), Annah. After graduation took post-graduate course in electro-therapeutics; mem. Med. Woman's Club (sec. four years, pres. two years); now sec. Minn. State Homœopathic Inst. Mem. Minneapolis Med. Soc. (pres. 1908); lecturer in electro-therapeutics, Univ. of Minn., four years. Chairman Social Hygiene Com., Minn. Federation of Woman's Clubs; lecturer on social hygiene and eugenics. Favors woman suffrage: has held various offices in Political Equality Club of Minneapolis; mem. Exec. Board of Minn. Woman Suffrage Ass'n, and since 1897, excepting one year (sec. several years), lecturer on Woman and the Franchise. Universalist. Mem. Minn. State Homœopathic Inst.; D.A.R

Burial

Lakewood Cemetery; Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA

Plot: Section 19 Lot 378 Grave 2.5

Source: Find a Grave

Note: Place of death is an assumption based on place of burial and that she was a resident of Minneapolis as recently as 1920^[1].

Sources

• Source: S33 John William Leonard, ed. Woman’s Who’s Who of America, A Biographical Dictionary of Comtemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. New York : The American Commonwealth Company, 1914. (Note: This book is out of copyright and available for download in PDF and other formats at Archive.org.)

• Source: S7 FindAGrave.com. Source for cemetery, date of death. Further confirmation for exact date of birth. Includes links to memorial pages for her parents, four siblings, husband, one daughter.

• Source: S5 U.S. Census, 1920. Shows her widowed, age 74, living with daughter Annah in Minneapolis.

1. ↑ 1920 census

Acknowledgments

• Wikitree profile Edgerton-525 created through the import of McNair_2015-04-19.ged on Apr 19, 2015 by Douglas MacNair. See the Changes page for details of edits.