Adaline Weed

Adaline Melinda Willis Weed (1837–1910), known as Ada Weed, was an American hydropathic medicine practitioner and lectured on women's issues while advocating for women's rights.

Biography[edit]

She was born Adaline Melinda Willis in Marion, Illinois in 1837.[1] She started at the New York Hygeio-Therapeutic college in 1856, and while there she met Gideon A. Weed whom she married in 1857. The wedding description in Water-Cure Journal indicates they both graduated and had their M.D. degrees, and they were "now united in hands, hearts, fortunes, and diplomas".[2] Following the wedding they moved to California where they planned to practice hydropathic medicine.[2] Weed would go on to publish about her experience with water-cures and travel.[3]: 72  Ada Weed would become the first female physician in Oregon.[4]

Weed was also known as an advocate for women's rights,[5] lecturing about the possibility of women being doctors and lawyers in 1858,[6] though the news about her lectures also raised comments from her as she did not agree with the portrayal of her words.[7] She also lectured on diseases specific to women.[8][9]

With her husband, they recruited patients in Sacramento, California[10][11] and Oregon.[12] The Weeds moved to Seattle in 1870,[13] where he would twice be elected mayor.[14] She stopped practicing medicine, became the director of the Library Association, and started hosting charitable events as a society lady.[15]

She died on September 8, 1910, in Berkeley, California.[16][1]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Weed, Adaline M.W. (March 1861). "Water-cure travel on the Pacific Coast". Water-Cure Journal. 31 (3): 40.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Haarsager, Sandra (1997). Organized womanhood : cultural politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1840-1920. Norman : University Of Oklahoma Press. pp. 76–78. ISBN 978-0-8061-2974-7.
  2. ^ a b "A wedding on hydropathic principles". 24 (5). Open Court Publishing Co. 1857: 107. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ Cayleff, Susan E. (1987). Wash and be healed : the water-cure movement and women's health. Philadelphia : Temple University Press. ISBN 978-0-87722-462-4.
  4. ^ Edwards, G. Thomas (1977). "Dr. Ada M. Weed: Northwest Reformer". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 78 (1): 4–40. ISSN 0030-4727. JSTOR 20613557.
  5. ^ Peterson del Mar, David (2003). Oregon's promise : an interpretive history. Corvallis : Oregon State University Press. pp. 93–94. ISBN 978-0-87071-558-7.
  6. ^ "Weekly Oregon Statesman". Newspapers.com. November 9, 1858. p. 2. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  7. ^ "Letter to the paper". Weekly Oregon Statesman. November 30, 1858. p. 1. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  8. ^ "Lectures". Daily National Democrat. December 18, 1860. p. 2. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  9. ^ "Clipped From The Hydraulic Press". The Hydraulic Press. December 1, 1860. p. 3. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  10. ^ "Clipped From The Sacramento Bee". The Sacramento Bee. March 20, 1861. p. 3. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  11. ^ People in history : an index to U.S. and Canadian biographies in history journals and dissertations. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO. 1988. pp. 186–187. ISBN 978-0-87436-493-4.
  12. ^ Fermoile, Kristin Sohn (November 29, 2022). "Drs. Ada & Gideon Weed" (PDF). University of Nevada School of Medicine. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 29, 2022. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  13. ^ "Voters re-elect Gideon A. Weed as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 9, 1877". historylink.org. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  14. ^ "Obituary for Gideon A Weed". San Francisco Chronicle. April 25, 1905. p. 13. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  15. ^ Fermoil, Kristin Sohn (November 29, 2022). "Drs. Ada & Gideon Weed, Part 2" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 29, 2022. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  16. ^ "Mrs. Adeline Weed Dies". The San Francisco Examiner. September 9, 1910. p. 3. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
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