Eleanor Dorcas Pond, Boston University, makes the rounds to visit patients in Schenectady, New York.
After graduating in 1889, Eleanor spent four years as a teacher of Latin and science in Massachusetts before enrolling at Tufts Medical College in 1893. She graduated in 1896, becoming the first female student at Tufts Medical College to be appointed class speaker. In an article for The Trident, she described some of the obstacles she faced as a woman in medicine but also wrote, "The field of the woman physician is constantly widening, and the amount of good she will do among women and children of the future generations is, as yet, a vast but unknown quantity."
Eleanor married Arthur Mann, an engineer and MIT graduate, in 1896. The two lived in Chicago, New York City, and Australia before settling in Schenectady, New York. Eleanor continued to practice medicine and lectured at the Chicago Post Graduate School and Woman's Medical School in New York City. In Australia, where women were barred from practicing medicine, Eleanor taught mathematics.
After her husband's death in 1915, Eleanor continued to practice medicine in Schenectady, offering free medical care to those who needed it, including many in the immigrant community. While living in Chicago, Eleanor founded the Chicago Alliance in 1897. She was also a charter member of the Syracuse Alliance and remained deeply involved with Beta Chapter. She passed away on December 19, 1932, at the age of 65.
