Mary Young Ridenbaugh

{{Short description|American biographer}}{{Infobox Author

| name = Mary Young Ridenbaugh

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| birth_place = Shelby County, KY

| occupation = Novelist, biographer

| spouse = William Ridenbaugh

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Mary Young Ridenbaugh (c. 1834 in Shelby County, Kentucky – {{c.}} 1941) was an American biographer and novelist, best remembered for her novel Enola; Or, Her Fatal Mistake (1886).{{cite book |last1=Ridenbaugh |first1=Mary Young |title=Enola; Or, Her Fatal Mistake |date=1886 |publisher=For the author |location=Kentucky |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4GUtAAAAYAAJ |access-date=8 August 2023 |language=en |quote=Volume 3 of Wright American fiction}}{{free access}}

Career

Ridenbaugh's works include:

  • Enola, Or Her Fatal Mistake (1886)
  • The Biography of Ephraim McDowell: The Father of Ovariotomy (1890).
  • {{cite book |last1=Ridenbaugh |first1=Mary Young |title=The Biography of Ephraim McDowell, M.D. |date=1890 |publisher=Charles L. Webster and Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4vIIAAAAIAAJ |access-date=8 August 2023 |language=en}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Ridenbaugh |first1=Mary Young |title=The Biography of Ephraim McDowell: The Father of Ovariotomy |date=1894 |publisher=author |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZaAEAAAAYAAJ |access-date=8 August 2023 |language=en |quote=second edition, revised}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Valentine |first1=Mary Thompson |title=Biography of Ephraim McDowell, M.D. |date=1897 |publisher=McDowell Publishing Company |location=New York City |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LOsIAAAAIAAJ |access-date=8 August 2023 |language=en |quote=First Edition}}
  • [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Biography_of_Ephraim_McDowell_M.D.%2C_%22the_father_of_ovariotomy%22_%28IA_b2169431x_0002%29.pdf Biography_of_Ephraim_McDowell_M.D.] wikimedia
  • https://archive.org/details/biographyephrai01ridegoog

Selected Reprints from Biography of Ephraim McDowell:

  • Portrait and Biographical Sketch of J.{{cite web |title=James Harvie Dew |url=https://archivesweb.vmi.edu/rosters/record.php?ID=2297 |website=VMI Archives Historical Rosters |publisher=Virginia Military Institute |access-date=8 August 2023}} Harvie Dew, M.D. (1890),{{cite web |title=Century Company records |url=https://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 |website=archives |publisher=nypl.org |access-date=8 August 2023}}
  • Biographical sketch of George Engelmann, M.D., 1809-1884 (1896).{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/101472689.nlm.nih.gov | title=Biographical sketch of George Engelmann, M.D., 1809-1884 | date=1896 }}
  • A sketch of the life of Joseph Eastman, M. D., LL. D., president of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, etc., Indianapolis, Ind (1905).{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/101697962.nlm.nih.gov | title=A sketch of the life of Joseph Eastman, M. D., LL. D., president of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, etc., Indianapolis, Ind | date=1905 }}

Personal life

She was the granddaughter of Ephraim McDowell and the wife of William Ridenbaugh. She was also known as Mary Thompson Valentine{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/biographyephrai01ridegoog | title=Biography of Ephraim McDowell, M.D. | date=1897 }} and Mary Thompson Young.{{cite book |title=Buffalo Medical Journal |date=1891 |page=315 |volume=46 |language=en}}{{cite book |title=Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal |date=1891 |publisher=Joseph Warren & Company, Printers |page=315 |volume=30 |language=en}}{{cite book |title=The Medical Tribune: A Monthly Magazine |date=1891 |publisher=Medical Tribune Company |page=371 |language=en}}{{cite book |title=The History of Buchanan County, Missouri|date=1881 |publisher=Union Historical Company |pages=873–874 |language=en}}{{cite book |title=Medical Standard |date=1888 |page=96 |volume=3 |language=en}}{{cite book |title=New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal |date=1888 |publisher=Louisiana State Medical Society |page=586 |volume=40 |language=en}}

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