Leonora King, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian physician and medical missionary
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Place of Birth: Athens, Ontario, Canada
About Leonora King
- Leonora Howard King (April 17, 1851 – June 30, 1925) was a Canadian physician and medical missionary who spent 47 years practising medicine in China.
- She was the first Canadian doctor to work in China.Leonora Annetta Howard was the daughter of Peter T.
- and Dorothy E.
- Howard.
- She was born in Lansdowne, County Leeds, Canada West (Ontario), March 17, 1851.
- She was raised in Farmersville (now Athens).
- She was educated in Athens, Ontario and in New York.
- She qualified for and served as a teacher.King was unable to attend medical school in Canada and received her medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1876.
- After joining the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the American Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society, she left for China in 1877 where she was a missionary doctor with the American Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society in the northern Chinese province of Chihli.
- She took up her residence in Peking. In August, 1879, Dr King attended Lady Li, the wife of Li Hung Chang, then seriously ill, in Tien-Tsin.
- On Lady Li's recovery, she remained in Tien-Tsin, in practice with the use of a temple being given to her for the purpose.
- She founded, in Tien-Tsin, the Methodist Episcopal Mission Hospital in 1880.
- In 1885 Dr.
- King opened a medical school for Chinese women and girls who had been educated in mission schools.
- In 1886, Lady Li built Dr.
- King another hospital, which was later known as Government Hospital for Women and Children, Tien-Tsin, China.
- During the war between China and Japan, Dr.
- Howard opened her hospital to wounded soldiers as opposed to women and children.
- At the close of the war Dr.
- King the first Western woman was made a Mandarin an honour of the Imperial Chinese Order of the Double Dragon.In 1884 she married Rev.
- Alexander King, a member of the London Missionary Society.In 2000, she was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
- In 2004, she was inducted into the American Medical Women's Association’s International Women in Medicine Hall of Fame.
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