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Show 3 tose Dr EUis R shipp utall.s 6 " Oldest Woman Physician Dies In Salt Lake City Dr. Ellis Reynolds Shipp, Utah's inity fa oldest woman physician, with a record rec-ord of sixty years' of practice, died rn Tuesday at the heme of her daugh-, daugh-, , ' i, ter, Mis. Ellis S. Musser in Salt ;t Lake City. Dr. Shipp was a former !nlor resident of Mt. Pleasant. 1 1S Di-. Si Jpp. selected last year as . ; one of eigi.t fe.xinlne leaders for , Hollan. meiTiibership In the Salt Lake council of Women's Hall of Fame, had been father i jy several weeks, but .was able on :. GeM?! January 20 to greet friends on her arren C 92nd birthday anniversary. Death father;- t;ns attributed to a heart attack. Dr. Shipp was bom in Davis countyIowa, in 1847, while her par-ents par-ents we.e en route to Utah. She did not reach Salt Lake City until 'Jht five years later, having walked most ' of t e way. Si e spent a typical lef j",, pioneer glrlhrcd, one of the high-iJJoiix high-iJJoiix limits of w.hich w;as attendance at just tg; tne Young family school at the re-'tt'oro'jjj re-'tt'oro'jjj quest of Brigham Young himself. fceM ,w At the age of 19 she was married rturj to Miliordi Bard Shipp, and emr tse tet- arked tn l?er first career mother-li. mother-li. hood. In the space of nine years JTQ she bore five children, two of wuom died in infancy. But her ambition !PKRll9 Ior another career imedicine was no nrlll farming during this period, and at rS the aee cf 28 she left her chudren nlGESll"1 with relatives ana! went east to the Woman's Medical college of Phila- delpida. iple Graduated with honors tfhree rcifcle t-- years later, Dr. SMipp returned to at me51. Ltah and an active life as an e vl'-s1- obstetrician. She estimated recent- r eca. lv tnat she had taken care of 5000 maternity cases during her years of uiedical practice. reiitv iBesides Mrs. Musser, she leaves , flj two other daughters, Mrs. John H. v Hill of Blackfcot, Idaho, and Mrs. BrsfW. Nellls S. McKinney of Salt Lake .jdaC" City, thlrty-eisf.it grandchidren, , pgyfl twenty-five greatgrandchildren and coid! four great-great-grandchildren. , "3e0 Bin""1, Funeral services will be conducted I 7rlibV Friday at 12:15 p. m. in the Yale L D- S. w.)rd chapel in Salt Lake ssip City, with S. M Foster, bishop's counselor, presiding. I |