Ellis Reynolds Shipp

Ellis Reynolds Shipp MD FAAP[1] (January 20, 1847 – January 31, 1939)[2] was one of the first female doctors in Utah and west of the Mississippi. She founded the School of Nursing and Obstetrics in 1879, and was on the board of the Deseret Hospital Association. Shipp successfully combined motherhood and a medical practice, saying, "It is to me the crowning joy of a woman’s life to be a mother."[3] In her 50-year medical career, she delivered more than 5000 babies and led the School of Nursing and Obstetrics to train more than 500 women as licensed midwives.

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Ellis Reynolds Shipp.

Biography

Born Ellis Reynolds, she emigrated with her family to Utah Territory in 1852. Her family was among the early Mormon pioneer settlers of Pleasant Grove, Utah. In 1866, Ellis Reynolds married Milford Shipp. She bore a total of ten children, six of whom survived infancy.[4]

Shipp began studying at the University of Deseret,[5] and later in Philadelphia at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1875. She left her children behind in Utah Territory in the care of her husband's three other wives. Brigham Young sponsored her education in the eastern United States and she later did further medical studies at the University of Michigan. When she returned to Utah, Ellis Shipp worked with Eliza R. Snow to start an obstetrics school, eventually training 660 midwives.[6]

In 1910, she published a book of her own poems, Life Lines.[7]

Shipp served as a member of the General Board of the Relief Society from 1898 to 1907. She also served on the general board of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association.[8]

Shipp died at age 92 in Salt Lake City on January 31, 1939, of cancer.[2]

Honors

A neighborhood park in Salt Lake City, Utah, is named in Shipp's honor; it is located near where she lived and practiced medicine.[9] A public health center in West Valley, Utah, is also named in her honor.[10]

Ellis Reynolds Shipp Hall (Building 11) of the women's dormitories in the old Heritage Halls at Brigham Young University was named after Shipp.

Shipp is honored with a display room in the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Pioneer Memorial Museum in Salt Lake City.[11]

Notes
  1. FFAAP was initiated with Amer. Board of Pediatrics, designation only to Fellows of AAP" https://www.aap.org/en-us/Pages/FAAP-Designation.aspx and partial list of past piedetrac Fellows.
  2. "Certificate of Death". State Board of Health, State of Utah. February 4, 1939. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
  3. "Ellis Reynolds Shipp—Mother and Doctor". LDS Church. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
  4. Jaworski, Karen Kay. "Ellis Reynolds Shipp". Utah History Encyclopedia. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Archived from the original on 2010-03-26. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  5. Davis Bitton; Thomas G. Alexander (25 November 2009). "Shipp, Ellis Reynolds (1847-1939)". The A to Z of Mormonism. Scarecrow Press. p. 210. ISBN 9780810870604. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
  6. Shipp, Ellis Reynolds (1985), While Others Slept: Autobiography and Journal of Ellis Reynolds Shipp, Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, ISBN 0-88494-569-3
  7. Shipp, Ellis Reynolds (1910). Life Lines: Poems. Salt Lake City, Utah: Skelton Publishing Company. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
  8. "Dr. Ellis Reynolds Shipp". University of Utah. 2004-03-15. Archived from the original on 2010-03-26. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  9. Ellis Reynolds Shipp Park
  10. "Ellis Reynolds Shipp Public Health Center". Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-10-18.
  11. "Utah Pioneer Memorial Museum". Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Retrieved 2011-12-21.

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