Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
OWLER-ORMSBEE
A. L., M. D., of Orange, N. J., daughter of Horace Fowler, was born
March 4th, 1826, in Cohocton, Steriben county, N. Y. At the age of nine
her father moved with his family, and settled near Jackson, Mich. That
part of the country being then quite new, there were no near school
advantages, and her education was for some years conducted by private
teachers resident in the family. She subsequently attended the school of
Rev. Marcus Harrison, in Jackson, and then coming east, devoted about
two years more to the usual course.She commenced the study
of medicine early in 1849, and spending one year under the preceptorship
of Dr. J. W. Redfield, entered the Female Medical College of
Pennsylvania in 1851. After three courses of lectures (the second of
which was a spring term in Boston, where she held the position of
Demonstrator of Anatomy), she graduated in Philadelphia in 1853,
receiving flattering encomiums from the faculty for the persevering
industry and unusual ability with which she had mastered the various
branches of the medical course. She was appointed Demonstrator of
Anatomy and Chemistry for the succeeding year, the duties of which were
discharged to the satisfaction of the faculty and class. During the
following years she declined several invitations to take a professorship
in that and other colleges.In 1858, she went to
reside on Orange Mountain, N. J., two and a half miles from the city of
Orange, to superintend the improvement of some property she had
previously purchased ; without expecting, however, to pursue her
profession ; but circumstances called her directly into practice,
and at the end of six years, without a business card or sign of any
kind, she numbered on her list over three hundred families, the greater
portion of them among the most intelligent and prosperous people of the
surrounding country.Her practice -which is
of a general character- has continued to increase, and for the last six
or seven years she has had daily office hours in the city of Orange. In
childhood she was remarkable for her self-control, and has always had
the credit among those who have known her best, of possessing an unusual
degree of sound judgment, equanimity of character, good taste, and great
practical sympathy and kindness ; of being a wise and faithful
friend and a skilful manager of household and of young people. She is
almost passionately fond of children, and always makes them her friends.
She is of medium height ; full, well-formed figure ; has a
wholesome, kindly face ; is graceful in her movements, and
accomplishes a vast amount of work by judicious planning, perseverance,
and making every movement fill its own appropriate place.On the 18th of October,
1871, she was married to Mr. J. Holden Ormsbee, a merchant of New York,
and a gentleman of much intelligence, sterling integrity, prepossessing
appearance and genial frankness of manner.Since her marriage she
has continued her professional duties in the same unassuming, successful
way as in the previous years.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave