Rowland, Amy F. (Amy Farley), 1872-

Executive secretary to Dr. George W. Crile at the U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 4 (Lakeside Unit) in France, 1917-1918. She later headed the editorial department of the Cleveland Clinic (1921-1926) and engaged in biophysical research there in the 1940s.

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Amy Farley Rowland (1872-1953) served with the Lakeside Unit during World War I. As George W. Crile's assistant, she edited a number of his publications. She was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, to Tace Wardwell Rowland and Reverend Lyman S. Rowland. The family soon moved to Lee, Massachusetts, where Rowland attended public schools. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1893 and did one year of postgraduate study at Columbia University. Rowland taught school in New York and Washington, D.C., for the next decade, and for three years, represented the United States at the International Institute for Girls in Spain. She became editorial secretary and assistant in surgical research to Dr. Crile of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914. In the winter of 1914-1915 she worked with the American Ambulance in France, as part of the Western Reserve University Unit. After America entered World War I, she again traveled to France, this time with the Lakeside Hospital Unit as assistant registrar. After Crile and others founded the Cleveland Clinic, Rowland took charge of its editorial department (1921-1926) and then became executive secretary there.

Rowland was a charter member of the Women's City Club of Cleveland and its director (1919-1925) and president (1923-1924); a founder of the Women's Council for the Promotion of Peace; a founder, officer and trustee of the Cleveland Girls' Council, a trustee of Alta House and Woman's General Hospital and president (1919-1922) of the Mt. Holyoke Alumnae Association of Cleveland. From 1928-1935 she served as trustee of Mt. Holyoke College, which had awarded her an honorary Master of Science degree in 1921. Rowland is buried in Ipswich, Massachusetts.