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{{Short description|American physician (1857–1944)}}
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| birth_place = [[Wilton, Iowa]], U.S.
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'''Mary Ryerson Butin''' (1857–1944) was an American physician. She was the first women to enter the Nebraska State Medical Society.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893">{{cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Frances Elizabeth |author1-link=Frances Willard |last2=Livermore |first2=Mary Ashton Rice |author2-link=Mary Livermore |title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life |year=1893 |publisher=[[Charles Wells Moulton]] |via=Wikisource |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Mary_Ryerson_Butin |page=142 |chapter=BUTIN, Mrs. Mary Ryerson |access-date=13 March 2024}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
'''Mary Ryerson Butin''' (1857–1944) was an American physician. She was the first woman to join the [[Nebraska]] State Medical Society.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893">{{cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Frances Elizabeth |author1-link=Frances Willard |last2=Livermore |first2=Mary Ashton Rice |author2-link=Mary Livermore |title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life |year=1893 |publisher=[[Charles Wells Moulton]] |via=Wikisource |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Mary_Ryerson_Butin |page=142 |chapter=BUTIN, Mrs. Mary Ryerson |access-date=13 March 2024}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>


==Early life and eduction==
==Early life and education==
Mary Eva Ryerson was born near [[Wilton, Iowa]], August 17, 1857. Her parents were Richard Allen Ryerson (1805–1894) and Nancy (Cole) Ryerson (1825–1899). Mary had six brothers: David, Peter, Nathan, John, Richard, and Maurice.<ref name="familysearch">{{cite web |title=Mary Eva Ryerson Female 17 August 1857 – 30 March 1944 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LVHY-FWV |website=www.familysearch.org |access-date=13 March 2024}}</ref> She lived on a farm until the age of 18, and then took up her residence in the village of [[Wilton, Iowa|Wilton Junction]].<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" />
Mary Eva Ryerson was born near [[Wilton, Iowa]], August 17, 1857. Her parents were Richard Allen Ryerson (1805–1894) and Nancy (Cole) Ryerson (1825–1899). Mary had six brothers: David, Peter, Nathan, John, Richard, and Maurice.<ref name="familysearch">{{cite web |title=Mary Eva Ryerson Female 17 August 1857 – 30 March 1944 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LVHY-FWV |website=www.familysearch.org |access-date=13 March 2024}}</ref> She lived on a farm until the age of 18, and then moved to the town of [[Wilton, Iowa|Wilton Junction]].<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" />


There, with alternate schooling and teaching, she succeeded in nearly completing the course in the academy in that place, until the school closed. Entering the high school, in one year, she was graduated from it with the highest honors.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" />
There, with alternate schooling and teaching, she nearly completed the course in the academy in that place, until the school closed. Entering the high school, in one year, she graduated with the highest honors.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" />


At the age of 21, she began the study of medicine, with the help and encouragement of the family physician and his partners. She entered the medical college in [[Iowa City, Iowa]] a co-educational institution, which at that time had enrolled a membership of 90 men and ten women. From that college, she became a firm opponent of co-education in medical colleges. The following year, she attended the [[Northwestern University Woman's Medical School]] in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], from which she was graduated.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" />
At the age of 21, she began the study of medicine, with the help and encouragement of the family physician and his partners. She entered the medical college in [[Iowa City, Iowa]] a co-educational institution, which at that time had enrolled a membership of 90 men and ten women. From that experience, she became a firm opponent of co-education in medical colleges. The following year, she attended the [[Northwestern University Woman's Medical School]] in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], from which she was graduated.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" />


==Career==
==Career==
In the spring of 1881, afterwards entering the South Side Hospital as resident physician. Her duties were so arduous, the lack of nurses making it necessary for her to supply that position sometimes, that, after four months' service, she resigned and returned home for rest.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" />
In the spring of 1881, Butin entered the South Side Hospital{{efn|According to the ''Illinois medical directory, 1910'', a South Side Hospital was established in Chicago in 1905.<ref name="Illinois1910">{{cite book |title=Illinois medical directory, 1910 |date=1910 |publisher=American Medical Association |page=25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=imvWhN4NQYwC&pg=PA25 |access-date=8 November 2024 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> As Willard & Livermore (1893) indicate that Butin joined the South Side Hospital staff in 1881,<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" /> it appears that the hospital was located elsewhere.}} as resident physician. Her duties were so arduous, the lack of nurses making it necessary for her to supply that position sometimes, that, after four months' service, she resigned and returned home for rest.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" />


While on a visit to her brother in [[Dorchester, Nebraska]], her practice became so extensive as to cause her to settle there, where she gradually overcame opposition among physicians and people to women practitioners. There she met the physician Dr. John L. Butin (1855–1933)<ref name="familysearch" /> and they married in May 1883.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" />
While on a visit to her brother in [[Dorchester, Nebraska]], her practice became so extensive as to cause her to settle there, where she gradually overcame opposition among physicians and people to women practitioners. There she met the physician Dr. John L. Butin (1855–1933)<ref name="familysearch" /> and they married in May 1883.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" />


Before she had been in the State a year, she became a member of the Nebraska State Medical Society. She was the first woman to enter that society and was received in [[Hastings, Nebraska]] in 1882. Placed upon the programme for a paper the next year, she was thereafter a contributor to some section of that society. She was elected first vice-president in 1889. She was a contributor to the [[Omaha, Nebraska]] ''Clinic'' and other medical journals, and was State superintendent of hygiene and heredity for the [[Woman's Christian Temperance Union]] (WCTU), county and local.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" />
Before she had been in the State for a year, Butin became a member of the Nebraska State Medical Society. She was the first woman to enter that society and was received in [[Hastings, Nebraska]] in 1882. Placed upon the program for a paper the next year, she was thereafter a contributor to some section of that society. She was elected first vice-president in 1889. She was a contributor to the [[Omaha, Nebraska]] ''Clinic'' and other medical journals, and was State superintendent of hygiene and heredity for the [[Woman's Christian Temperance Union]] (WCTU), county and local.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" />


Associated with all progressive movements, Butin battled and conquered much of the prejudice against woman in the field of medical science.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" />
Associated with all progressive movements, Butin worked to end the prejudice against woman in the field of medical science.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" />
[[File:Mary Ryerson Butin (Problems Women Solved, 1915).png|thumb|(''Problems Women Solved'', 1915)]]
[[File:Mary Ryerson Butin (Problems Women Solved, 1915).png|thumb|(''Problems Women Solved'', 1915)]]
In 1891, with her husband, she came to [[Madera, California]] and purchased a [[vineyard]] in the [[John Brown Colony]].<ref name="TheFresnoBee1944" /> In Madera, she was active in all matters pertaining to public health, including 13 years City and County Health Officer; and district chair of Public Welfare, for California Federation of Women's Clubs.<ref name="BinheimElvin1928">{{cite book |last1=Binheim |first1=Max |last2=Elvin |first2=Charles A. |title=Women of the West: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Living Eminent Women in the Eleven Western States of the United States of America |date=1928 |publisher=Publishers Press |page=30 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Women_of_the_West/California |via=Wikisource |access-date=13 March 2024 |language=en |chapter=California}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
In 1891, with her husband, she came to [[Madera, California]] and purchased a [[vineyard]] in the John Brown Colony.<ref name="TheFresnoBee1944" /> In Madera, she was active in all matters pertaining to public health, including 13 years as City and County Health Officer, and district chair of Public Welfare for the [[California]] Federation of Women's Clubs.<ref name="BinheimElvin1928">{{cite book |last1=Binheim |first1=Max |last2=Elvin |first2=Charles A. |title=Women of the West: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Living Eminent Women in the Eleven Western States of the United States of America |date=1928 |publisher=Publishers Press |page=30 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Women_of_the_West/California |via=Wikisource |access-date=13 March 2024 |language=en |chapter=California}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>


Though retired from medical practice by 1918, Butin provided volunteer medical services during the [[Spanish flu|Spanish flu epidemic]].<ref name="TheFresnoBee1944" />
Though retired from medical practice by 1918, Butin provided volunteer medical services during the [[Spanish flu|Spanish flu epidemic]].<ref name="TheFresnoBee1944" /> She was a member of the [[Fresno County, California|Fresno County]] Medical Society, [[American Medical Association]], and National Woman's Medical Society.<ref name="BinheimElvin1928" />


Butin was active in the [[Women's suffrage in the United States|woman's suffrage movement]] with [[Carrie Chapman Catt]] and [[Susan B. Anthony]].<ref name="TheFresnoBee1944" /> She was a member of the Fresno County Medical Society, [[American Medical Association]], National Woman's Medical Society, [[American Association of University Women]], Ina Coolbrith Society of Authors, Fresno Parlor Lecture Club, Business & Professional Women's Club, and the Madera Women's Improvement Club.<ref name="BinheimElvin1928" />
Butin was active in the [[Women's suffrage in the United States|woman's suffrage movement]] with [[Carrie Chapman Catt]] and [[Susan B. Anthony]].<ref name="TheFresnoBee1944" /> She was associated with the [[American Association of University Women]], [[Ina Coolbrith]] Society of Authors, Fresno Parlor Lecture Club, Business & Professional Women's Club, and the Madera Women's Improvement Club.<ref name="BinheimElvin1928" />


==Death==
==Death==
Mary Ryerson Butin died in Madera, California, March 30, 1944.<ref name="TheFresnoBee1944">{{cite news |title=Death Takes Dr. Mary Butin, Early Day Woman Physician |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fresno-bee-death-takes-dr-mary-buti/143281977/ |access-date=13 March 2024 |work=The Fresno Bee |date=31 March 1944 |page=13}}</ref>
Mary Ryerson Butin died in Madera, California, on March 30, 1944.<ref name="TheFresnoBee1944">{{cite news |title=Death Takes Dr. Mary Butin, Early Day Woman Physician |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fresno-bee-death-takes-dr-mary-buti/143281977/ |access-date=13 March 2024 |work=The Fresno Bee |date=31 March 1944 |page=13}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* {{wikisource-inline|Woman of the Century/Mary Ryerson Butin}}
* {{wikisource-inline|Woman of the Century/Mary Ryerson Butin}}
* [https://www.anylaw.com/case/estate-of-mary-ryerson-butin-v-ryerson/california-court-of-appeal/07-28-1947/b6EaR2YBTlTomsSB2y3F Estate of Mary Ryerson Butin v. Ryerson, Civ. No. 7381, 81 Cal. App. 2d 76 (1947)], [[California Courts of Appeal|California Court of Appeal]], July 27, 1947
* [https://www.anylaw.com/case/estate-of-mary-ryerson-butin-v-ryerson/california-court-of-appeal/07-28-1947/b6EaR2YBTlTomsSB2y3F Estate of Mary Ryerson Butin v. Ryerson, Civ. No. 7381, 81 Cal. App. 2d 76 (1947)], [[California Courts of Appeal|California Court of Appeal]], July 27, 1947.


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Dr.
Mary Ryerson Butin
M.D.
B&W photo of a standing woman with her hair in an updo, wearing a dark dress.
Portrait from A Woman of the Century
Born
Mary Eva Ryerson

August 17, 1857
Wilton, Iowa, U.S.
DiedMarch 30, 1944 (aged 76)
Madera, California, U.S.
SpouseDr.
John L. Butin
​
​
(m. 1883; died 1933)​

Mary Ryerson Butin (1857–1944) was an American physician. She was the first woman to join the Nebraska State Medical Society.[1]

Early life and education

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Mary Eva Ryerson was born near Wilton, Iowa, August 17, 1857. Her parents were Richard Allen Ryerson (1805–1894) and Nancy (Cole) Ryerson (1825–1899). Mary had six brothers: David, Peter, Nathan, John, Richard, and Maurice.[2] She lived on a farm until the age of 18, and then moved to the town of Wilton Junction.[1]

There, with alternate schooling and teaching, she nearly completed the course in the academy in that place, until the school closed. Entering the high school, in one year, she graduated with the highest honors.[1]

At the age of 21, she began the study of medicine, with the help and encouragement of the family physician and his partners. She entered the medical college in Iowa City, Iowa a co-educational institution, which at that time had enrolled a membership of 90 men and ten women. From that experience, she became a firm opponent of co-education in medical colleges. The following year, she attended the Northwestern University Woman's Medical School in Chicago, Illinois, from which she was graduated.[1]

Career

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In the spring of 1881, Butin entered the South Side Hospital[a] as resident physician. Her duties were so arduous, the lack of nurses making it necessary for her to supply that position sometimes, that, after four months' service, she resigned and returned home for rest.[1]

While on a visit to her brother in Dorchester, Nebraska, her practice became so extensive as to cause her to settle there, where she gradually overcame opposition among physicians and people to women practitioners. There she met the physician Dr. John L. Butin (1855–1933)[2] and they married in May 1883.[1]

Before she had been in the State for a year, Butin became a member of the Nebraska State Medical Society. She was the first woman to enter that society and was received in Hastings, Nebraska in 1882. Placed upon the program for a paper the next year, she was thereafter a contributor to some section of that society. She was elected first vice-president in 1889. She was a contributor to the Omaha, Nebraska Clinic and other medical journals, and was State superintendent of hygiene and heredity for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), county and local.[1]

Associated with all progressive movements, Butin worked to end the prejudice against woman in the field of medical science.[1]

(Problems Women Solved, 1915)

In 1891, with her husband, she came to Madera, California and purchased a vineyard in the John Brown Colony.[4] In Madera, she was active in all matters pertaining to public health, including 13 years as City and County Health Officer, and district chair of Public Welfare for the California Federation of Women's Clubs.[5]

Though retired from medical practice by 1918, Butin provided volunteer medical services during the Spanish flu epidemic.[4] She was a member of the Fresno County Medical Society, American Medical Association, and National Woman's Medical Society.[5]

Butin was active in the woman's suffrage movement with Carrie Chapman Catt and Susan B. Anthony.[4] She was associated with the American Association of University Women, Ina Coolbrith Society of Authors, Fresno Parlor Lecture Club, Business & Professional Women's Club, and the Madera Women's Improvement Club.[5]

Death

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Mary Ryerson Butin died in Madera, California, on March 30, 1944.[4]

Notes

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  1. ^ According to the Illinois medical directory, 1910, a South Side Hospital was established in Chicago in 1905.[3] As Willard & Livermore (1893) indicate that Butin joined the South Side Hospital staff in 1881,[1] it appears that the hospital was located elsewhere.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "BUTIN, Mrs. Mary Ryerson". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. p. 142. Retrieved March 13, 2024 – via Wikisource. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ a b "Mary Eva Ryerson Female 17 August 1857 – 30 March 1944". www.familysearch.org. Retrieved March 13, 2024.
  3. ^ Illinois medical directory, 1910. American Medical Association. 1910. p. 25. Retrieved November 8, 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ a b c d "Death Takes Dr. Mary Butin, Early Day Woman Physician". The Fresno Bee. March 31, 1944. p. 13. Retrieved March 13, 2024.
  5. ^ a b c Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A. (1928). "California". Women of the West: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Living Eminent Women in the Eleven Western States of the United States of America. Publishers Press. p. 30. Retrieved March 13, 2024 – via Wikisource. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Further reading

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  • LIFE'S STORY MARY E. RYERSON BUTIN, MD. MADERA, CALIFORNIA −1930 (text)
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