Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda

Biographical Note

• 1828, Feb. 17: Born, Dorchester County, Md.
• 1845: Graduated, Wesleyan Female College, Wilmington, Del.
• 1846 - 1850 : Professor, Wesleyan Female College; taught physiology and literature
• 1850 - 1852 : Taught, Baltimore Female College, and continued studies with Dr. Thomas Bond, Jr., founder of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Baltimore, Md.
• 1854: Married John Quincy Adams Jones
• 1862: Studied medicine, Hygeio-Therapeutic Medical College, New York, N.Y.
• 1865 - 1875 : Practiced medicine, Brooklyn, N.Y.
• 1872: Enrolled, Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1873: Passed three-month preceptorship with Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi in New York, N.Y.
• 1875: Graduated, Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., specializing in the treatment of diseases of the female reproductive system
• 1876: Began studying pathology with Dr. Charles Heitzman
• 1882 - 1884 : Chief medical officer, Woman’s Hospital of Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.
• 1884 - 1891 : Gynecologist, Woman’s Hospital of Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.
• 1886: Studied in Europe, touring European surgical theater
• 1888: Performed the first successful total hysterectomy for treatment of fibroid tumors while caring for a patient suffering from a seventeen-pound uterine tumor
• 1890: Tried and exonerated in the manslaughter case of Ida Hunt
• 1892: Lost libel suit against the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
• 1893: Only daughter murdered by her daughter’s husband
• 1895: Retired from her medical practice
• 1895 - circa 1908 : Researched and wrote articles on the clinical pathology of the female reproductive system
• 1910, Apr.: Listed on the 1910 census as living in the Bronx, New York, N.Y.

From the guide to the Mary Amanda Dixon Jones Papers, 1839-1925, (bulk 1874-1907), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)