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Title	Harveysburg Public Schools Commencement Program
Subject	Ohio Women Education Graduation ceremonies Physicians
Place	Harveysburg (Ohio) Waynesville (Ohio) Warren County (Ohio)
Description	This four-page commencement program for the Harveysburg Public Schools class of 1887 includes a listing for Mary L. Cook's address "To-Day." Cook graduated in 1887 and was the valedictorian of the first graduating class in Harveysburg. The program measures 3.5" x 4.5" (8.89 x 11.43 cm). Cook (1869-1964) was born to Seth and Hannah Cook, Quakers who lived near Mt. Holly in Warren County. She attended Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. After graduating, she returned to the Harveysburg-Waynesville area and taught school at the Harmony Grove country school, where her mother had once taught. Within a year of Cook's return, her family decided to sell their farm and moved to Oregon. After a few weeks, her family decided to move back, but Cook stayed in Oregon for three years as a teacher, then moved to Chicago and lived there for 12 years. While working as a secretary, she enrolled in an evening medical school and graduated after four years. Soon after, she contracted typhoid and spent the next five years recovering and continuing to work as a secretary. She eventually saved enough money to study one year at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at the University of Illinois. She graduated in 1908, and in the fall she returned to Waynesville, Ohio and opened her office, located in the Waynesville National Bank building on the northwest corner of Main and North streets. She practiced medicine in Waynesville for more than 52 years. In 1958, at the age of 88, Cook ranked as one of the oldest women practitioners in the United States. Cook was instrumental in the founding of the public library in Waynesville. In early 1917, she gathered together interested citizens and established a library association. The state granted a charter on Ohio May 1, 1917. In 1924 the Library Association Board assumed the responsibilities of a school district public library. Cook was appointed the first president of the board of trustees, a position she held until 1960.
Creator	Lebanon Gazette
Date of Original	May 20, 1887
Collection	Mary L. Cook Public Library History Collection http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/ohioana_roommary_l.htm (Ohioana Room in the Mary L. Cook Public Library)
Source	Published material R BD 977.1763
Submitting Institution	Mary L. Cook Public Library
Type	Text

Title	Om1559_2752301_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1559_2752301_001.tif
Image Height	1306
Image Width	1042
File Size	401.005 KB

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