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Mary Helen Barker Bates

17 December 1845—3 August 1924

1 Born at Hannibel, Oswego County, New York; daughter of Jane Ruth Freeman and Ezra Ferris Barker.2 Physician and surgeon. Graduated from Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1873.3 Opened an obstetrics school for women in Salt Lake City, 1873.4 Member of the Women’s Centennial Executive Committee for Utah.5 Married George Clinton Bates at Salt Lake City, 1876.6 Moved to Colorado, circa 1876–1877.7 Died at Denver.8 (See Document 3.23, 3.28)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804–1929,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Aug. 2014), Mary Helen Barker Bates; extracted from Arthur Wayne Hafner, ed.,  Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804–1929: A Genealogical Guide to Over 149,000 Medical Practitioners Providing Brief Biographical Sketches Drawn from the American Medical Association's Deceased Physician Masterfile (Chicago: American Medical Association, 1993).
  2. 2 “International Genealogical Index,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Dr. Mary H. Barker LHRB-3BC . 1860 U.S. census, Antioch, Lake Co., Illinois, p. 56, Mary H. Barker in household of E.F. Barker; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com, accessed Aug. 2014), from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 193.
  3. 3 “Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804–1929,” database, Ancestry.com, entry for Mary Helen Barker Bates.
  4. 4 “Home Affairs,” Woman’s Exponent 2, no. 7 (Sept. 1, 1873): 53, 56. Kate B. Carter, comp., Our Pioneer Heritage (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1963), 6:363.
  5. 5 “Circular,” Deseret News [weekly], Jan. 5, 1876.
  6. 6 “International Genealogical Index,” database, Dr. Mary H. Barker LHRB-3BC and George Clinton Bates LHRB-35L .
  7. 7 Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 6:363. 1885 U.S. census, Arapahoe Co., Colorado, p. 53, Mary Bates; digital image, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), from NARA microfilm publication M158, roll 1.
  8. 8 “Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804–1929,” database, Mary Helen Barker Bates.