Elizabeth (Smith) Smith-Shortt MD (1859-1949)

Elizabeth Smith-Shortt MD formerly Smith

Born 18 Jan 1859 in Winona, Hamilton, Wentworth, Canada West

Ancestors

Daughter of Sylvester Smith and Damaris Isabella (McGee) Smith

Sister of Ernest D'Israeli Smith, Mauritane (Smith) Coon, Gertrude Smith, Cecil Brunswick Smith and Violet B. Smith

Wife of Adam Shortt — married 24 Dec 1886 in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada

Mother of Muriel Gwendolen Shortt, George Ernest Shortt and Mary Lorraine Shortt

Died 14 Jan 1949 at age 89 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Elizabeth (Smith) Smith-Shortt MD is Notable.

Elizabeth (Smith) Smith-Shortt MD is/was a significant Ontarian .

Elizabeth Smith-Shortt, the daughter of Sylvester Smith and Damaris McGee, was an early Canadian feminist and one of the first three women physicians to practice in Canada.

She opened her practice in Hamilton in 1884. Two years later, she married Queen's professor Adam Shortt and moved to Kingston, where she became a lecturer and later professor in medical jurisprudence at the Women's Medical College. Their three children, Muriel, George and Mary, were born in Kingston.

When Adam Shortt became Canada's first civil service commissioner, the family moved to Ottawa. Elizabeth lent her voice to numerous women's causes and served as vice-president of the National Council of Women.^[1] She was largely responsible for organizing a hostel for women immigrants and for convening a committee to petition the provincial government to establish Mother's Allowances. When this was accomplished in 1920, she was appointed vice-chairman of the Provincial Board of Mother's Allowances, a position she held for seven years.^[2]

Books and Articles on Elizabeth Smith-Shortt

Sheryl Ann Stotts, “Becoming Indispensable: A Biography of Elizabeth Smith Shortt" (1859-1949), PhD diss., York University (Canada), 2002.

Peter E. Paul Demski, “An English, Protestant, Upper-Canadian Feminist on the Grand Tour: Elizabeth Smith Shortt in Great Britain and Europe, 1911,” Journal of Canadian Studies v. 28, iss. 4 (Winter 1993-94): 72-87.

Elizabeth Smith Shortt, A Woman with a Purpose: the Diaries of Elizabeth Smith, 1872-84, edited with an introduction by Veronica Strong-Boag (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980)

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elizabeth by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Elizabeth:

~1.56% Dale Dickinson : 23andMe
~1.56% Rick Mathieson : AncestryDNA
~1.56% Richard Cooper : AncestryDNA
~0.78% Kal Perry : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A752603 [compare], Ancestry member kalperry1
~0.78% David L. Stewart : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch 9295 [compare], Ancestry member dstewart193
~0.78% Susan (Powell) Marx : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A698161 [compare], Ancestry member rrrose593
~0.78% Lynn Dickinson : Family Tree DNA Family Finder, yourDNAportal LYN93d82ac4, FTDNA kit #MK81465 + Autosomal DNA Test