Mary Maxwell Hathorn

Mary Maxwell Hathorn (March 18, 1884 – November 13, 1935) was an American osteopathic physician.

Mary Maxwell Hathorn
A young white woman with dark hair, in profile, wearing a light-colored dress with an off-the-shoulders smocked neckline; in an oval frame
Mary Maxwell Hathorn, from the 1905 yearbook of the Mississippi State College for Women
BornMarch 18, 1884
Columbia, Mississippi
DiedNovember 13, 1935 (aged 51)
New York City
Other namesMaxie Hathorn, Mary M. Hathorne
OccupationOsteopathic physician

Early life and education

Hathorn was born in Columbia, Mississippi, the daughter of Nevin Clowney "Scott" Hathorn and Susan Rebecca Cooper Hathorn. She graduated from the Mississippi State College for Women (MSCW) in 1906,[1] and trained as an osteopath at the American School of Osteopathy in Kirksville, Missouri, with further education at the College of Osteopathy in Chicago and at the University of Chicago.[2]

Career

Hathorn practiced osteopathy in Bonham, Texas and in Crowley, Louisiana,[3] sometimes with her brother, John D. Hathorn,[4][5] She wrote an advice column, "Health Hints", for the local newspaper in Crowley.[6][7][8] From 1920 to 1935, she had both a private practice and a charity practice on West 74th Street in New York City. "She was almost a genius for diagnosis and was often called in consultation not only by her colleagues in osteopathy but by medical doctors as well," according to one obituary, which also noted that she could drive a car and change a tire "better than most professional chauffeurs."[2]

Personal life

Hathorn lived with two of her MSCW instructors, Pauline Van de Graaf Orr and Miriam Greene Paslay, in New York City.[9][10] She also rented their apartment in Chicago in 1920, with another Mississippi woman, Mrs. Joseph Carson.[11] Her niece Betty Hathorn Dreyer lived with the women while she was attending school in New York.[12] Hathorn died in a New York hospital in 1935, at the age of 51, a few weeks after mastoid surgery.[2][13]

References
  1. Mississippi Industrial Institute & College, Meh Lady (1905 yearbook): 18.
  2. "Famed Physician Buried in State; Dr. Mary Maxwell Hathorn is Brought to Columbia for Interment". Clarion-Ledger. 1935-11-17. p. 12. Retrieved 2023-06-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Dr. Hathorn Returns". The Crowley Signal. 1918-10-05. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-06-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Dr. Hathorn's Brother Will Locate Here". The Crowley Post-Signal. 1917-08-03. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-06-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Advertisement". The Crowley Post-Signal. 1917-08-08. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-06-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Hathorn, Mary Maxwell (1917-02-27). "Health Hints: The Proper Feeding of Babies". The Crowley Post-Signal. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-06-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. Hathorn, Mary Maxwell (1917-02-12). "Health Hints: Coughs and Sore Throats". The Crowley Post-Signal. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-06-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. Hathorn, Mary Maxwell (1917-01-29). "Health Hints: Some Methods of Ventilating in Winter". The Crowley Post-Signal. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-06-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Grantham, Misty LaChelle (2008). A "Boston Marriage" in Mississippi: The Relationship of Pauline Van de Graaf Orr and Miriam Greene Paslay, 1891-1932. University of Southern Mississippi.
  10. "First Graduate for Mississippi State College Dies at N.Y." The Shreveport Journal. 1932-04-26. p. 13. Retrieved 2023-06-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Chat of People and Events". The Columbus Dispatch 19??-1922. 1920-03-21. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-06-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Columbia Native is Interred Here Sunday Aftern'n". Columbian-Progress. 1968-09-26. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-06-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Dr. Mary M. Hathorn" The New York Times (November 14, 1935): 21. via TimesMachine
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