Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel
{{short description|Pioneer American dentist}}
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| name = Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel
| image = Mary Stilwell.png
| caption = Dr. Mary H. Stilwell
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| birth_name = Mary Haviland Stilwell
| birth_date = April 30, 1866
| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| death_date = {{death date and age|1936|6|22|1866|4|30}}
| death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| nationality = American
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| occupation = Dentist
| years_active =
| known_for = Founded the Women's Dental Association of the U.S.
| spouse = George C. Kuesel
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Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel sometimes spelled Stillwell-Kuesel (April 30, 1866 – June 22, 1936) was a pioneer American dentist.{{sfn|Historical Society of Pennsylvania|1991|p=}} She was the founder of the Women's Dental Association of the United States, which she founded in 1892 with 12 charter members.{{cite web|author=unknown|url=http://www.aawd.org/?page=HistoryofAAWD|title=History of AAWD |publisher=American Association of Women Dentists |access-date=May 7, 2013}}
Biography
Mary Haviland Stilwell was born April 30, 1866, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1892, she founded the Women's Dental Association of the U.S. with 12 charter members.{{cite web|title=About AAWD – AAWD|url=https://www.aawd.org/about-aawd/|publisher=American Association of Women Dentists|access-date=30 September 2017}}{{sfn|Bird|Robinson|2016|p=8}}
In 1902, she married Dr. George C. Kuesel,{{sfn|White|McQuillen|Ziegler|1936|p=1332}} a medical doctor.{{sfn|American Public Health Association|1950|p=1588}} They were associate members of the Fairmount Park Art Association.{{sfn|Fairmount Park Art Association|1914|p=58}} She died June 22, 1936, in Philadelphia of coronary thrombosis.{{sfn|White|McQuillen|Ziegler|1936|p=1332}} Her correspondence is held in a collection by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.{{cite web|title=Holdings: Mary H. Stillwell Kuesel correspondence|url=https://discover.hsp.org/Record/ead-1442|publisher=Historical Society of Pennsylvania|language=en}}
See also
{{Portal|Biography}}
References
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=Attribution=
- {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|author=Fairmount Park Art Association|title=Annual Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z60eAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA58|edition=Public domain|year=1914}} }}
=Bibliography=
- {{cite book|author=American Public Health Association|title=American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-0M7AAAAIAAJ|year=1950|publisher=American Public Health Association}}
- {{cite book|last1=Bird|first1=Doni L.|last2=Robinson|first2=Debbie S.|title=Modern Dental Assisting - E-Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=arHSCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA8|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences|isbn=978-0-323-22121-4}}
- {{cite book|author=Historical Society of Pennsylvania|title=Guide to the manuscript collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania|url=https://archive.org/details/guidetomanuscrip0000hist|url-access=registration|date=May 1991|publisher=Historical Society of Pennsylvania}}
- {{cite book|last1=White|first1=J. D.|last2=McQuillen|first2=John Hugh|last3=Ziegler|first3=George Jacob|title=The Dental Cosmos|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Te8wAAAAIAAJ|volume=78|year=1936|publisher=S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company}}
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Category:American women dentists