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Rh Society. Was appointed in 1876, one of the vice-presidents of the New York Committee for the Prevention and State Regulation of Vice. She is a member of the Sorosis Club, and is considered a woman of marked executive ability for hospital administration. Her work is of a high standard and she occupies a conspicuous position for a woman in the profession which she has chosen.

Was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, November, i860. Her father was Josiah H. Rhodes, of Pennsylvania Dutch stock, and her mother, Sarah Crosby Swift was descended from a New England Puritan family. Although a successful student of music in the New England Conservatory of Music, in Boston, in 1881, she entered the musical school of Boston University and graduated with honor in 1884. In 1880, she married Charles F. Lummis, and in 1885 removed to Los Angeles, California, where she began the practice of medicine. She has served as dramatic editor of the Los Angeles Times and also musical editor and critic on that journal. She was instrumental in the formation of a humane society which was brought about through her observations of the neglect and cruelty to the children of the poor, and Mexican families, visited in her practice. She is a writer for Puck, Judge, Life, Women's Cycle, San Francisco Argonaut, and the Californian, as well as contributing many important papers to the various medical journals of the United States.

Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi was born in August, 1842, in London, England, daughter of George B. Putnam, the well-known publisher. Her parents returned to this country when she was quite young and she was educated in Philadelphia, taking a course in the Women's Medical College of that city; afterwards taking a course at the New York College of Pharmacy, being one of the first women graduates of that institution. She was the first woman to be admitted to the Ecole de Medecin in Paris, and received the second prize for her thesis. On her return to America she immediately took up the work of having women students placed on the same footing with men and received on these terms in all medical societies. In 1872 she read before the American Journal Association an able paper, the first ever given by a woman. In 1873 she married Doctor Abraham Jacobi, a distinguished physician and specialist of New York City. After her marriage she was known by the name of Doctor Putnam-Jacobi. For many years she held the chair of therapeutics and materia medica of the Woman's College of the New York Infirmary and was afterwards professor in the New York Medical College. Mrs. Jacobi, in 1874, founded an association for the advancement of the medical education of women and was its president for many years. She has written much on medical and scientific subjects. Doctor Putnam-Jacobi takes front rank among the women of America, as her knowledge of medicine and its allied sciences is profound and accurate and she has won a distinguished position for herself among physicians and specialists of note.