Eunice Shadd was a Canadian-American physician, born in Pennsylvania and raised in Chatham, Ontario. She was one of the first Black women to graduate from Howard University College of Medicine.[1]
Eunice Shadd was born free about 1846 in Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Harriet Burton (Parnell) and abolitionist Abram Shadd, who were free African-Americans. Her father moved the family to Canada after the Fugitive Slave Act was enacted in 1850.
She left Canada and moved to Washington, D.C. to be with her siblings Mary Ann and Abraham Shadd.
In 1870 she enrolled in the Howard University Normal School and graduated in 1872. Eunice first taught public school, then in 1875 she enrolled in Howard's medical program and in 1877 was one of the first Black women to graduate from Howard University College of Medicine.
In 1877, Eunice married Dr. Frank T. Lindsay,[2] who had graduated from the Howard medical program in 1875. The couple then moved to Xenia, Ohio, where they both practiced medicine.
She died on January 4th 1887/8 in Xenia, Ohio, and has a memorial gravestone at Maple Leaf Cemetery in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, where her family is buried.[3]
↑ "Washington, D.C., U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1830-1921" Ancestry Record 60261 #502964 (accessed 19 October 2021)
Eunice R Shadd marriage to Frank L. Lindsay on 26 Apr 1877 in Washington, District of Columbia.
↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #165532733 for Eunice P. (Shadd) Lindsay, b: 1845 West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA; d: 04 Jan 1888 Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, USA; buried: Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, Chatham-Kent Municipality, Ontario, Canada
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4H9-CYL : 21 December 2020), Eunice Shadd in household of Abram D Shadd, West Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.) which included (whole household is recorded as "Mulatto")
"Canada Census, 1871," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4Q2-QVM : 19 March 2021), Eunice Shadd in household of Abraham Shadd, Raleigh, Kent, Ontario, Canada; citing 1871; citing National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8MV-8CY : 19 February 2021), Eunice Lindsey in household of Frank Lindsey, Xenia, Greene, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district ED 93, sheet 475D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,020.
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