Selmon, Bertha Eugenia Loveland, 1877-1949.

Dr. Bertha Loveland Selmon was born in Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio, Dec. 15, 1877, the daughter of Nicholas Eugene and Annie Parker Loveland. She graduated from Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's Sanitarium and Battle Creek College in 1898. She continued her study at the American Medical Missionary College in Chicago, graduating with a degree in medicine in 1902. On July 6, 1903 she was married to Dr. Arthur Selmon and the couple immediately moved to China where they worked as medical missionaries, first in Honan Province, then in Shanghai. They returned to the United States in 1924 where she became a private physician as well as practicing industrial medicine with the W.K. Kellogg Corn Flake Co. In Battle Creek she was one of the founders of the Maternal Health Center and served as its clinician from 1932 until 1943. Apart from medical practice Selmon had two principal interest -- the furtherance of birth control or controlled parenthood and the study of the lives and careers of women physicians. As history editor of the Medical Women's Journal, Selmon collected pictures and compiled life stories of women doctors. She died January 25, 1949.

From the guide to the Bertha Eugenia Loveland Selmon papers, 1932-1949, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan)

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