Sarah Garland Boyd Jones
{{short description|American physician}}
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| birth_name = Sarah Garland Boyd
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1866}}
| birth_place = Albemarle County, Virginia
| death_date = {{death date and age|1905|5|11|1866|mf=y}}
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| nationality = American
| alma_mater = Richmond Colored Normal School
Howard University Medical College
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| occupation = Physician
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| spouse = Miles Berkley Jones
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Sarah Garland Boyd Jones (née Sarah Garland Boyd; 1866{{spaced ndash}}May 11, 1905) was an American physician from the U.S. state of Virginia. She was the first woman to receive a certificate from the Virginia State Medical Examining Board and co-founded a hospital in Richmond, Virginia with her husband, Miles Berkley Jones.
Early life and education
Sarah Garland Boyd was born in Albemarle County, Virginia. She was the daughter of Ellen Boyd and George W. Boyd, a leading African American contractor and builder in Richmond, Virginia, remembered for the Maggie L. Walker house.{{cite news|last1=Middleton|first1=Otesa|title=Sarah Garland Jones|url=http://www.richmond.com/special-section/black-history/article_b0030d65-4f6b-58b3-84d6-d8a53b3e6a3d.html|publisher=Richmond Times-Dispatch|access-date=17 February 2017|date=18 February 1998}} She was educated in the public schools of Richmond, and after graduating in 1883 from Richmond Colored Normal School with Maggie L. Walker, she taught in Richmond schools for five years.{{sfn|Howard University. Medical Department|Lamb|1900|p=187}}
Career
In 1888, Boyd married fellow teacher Miles Berkley Jones, who later became G.W.A. Secretary of the True Reformers.{{sfn|Majors|1893|p=242}} From 1890 to 1893, Jones attended Howard University Medical College, sessions 23 to 25, and graduated as a medical doctor in 1893. She passed the Virginia State Medical Examining Board, receiving over 90 percent on the examination in surgery.{{sfn|Majors|1893|p=242}} Jones was the first woman to receive a certificate from the board. Thereafter, she practiced medicine in Richmond.{{sfn|Howard University. Medical Department|Lamb|1900|p=187}} With her husband, who also became a physician, she opened Richmond Hospital, which was also known as the Women's Central Hospital.
File:Sarah-G-Jones-and-Maggie-L-Walker-03.jpg at the Virginia Women's Monument]]
Death
Jones died May 11, 1905. Her sister, who also became a physician, married her brother-in-law, the widower, Miles Berkley Jones,{{sfn|Kollatz|2007|p=70}} The Sarah G. Jones Memorial Hospital, Medical College and Training School for Nurses was named in her honor in 1922.{{cite web|last1=Julienn|first1=Marianne E.|last2=Dictionary of Virginia Biography|title=Sarah Garland Boyd Jones (1866–1905)|url=http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Jones_Sarah_Garland_Boyd_1866-1905|publisher=Encyclopedia Virginia|access-date=17 February 2017|date=26 January 2015}}
References
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External links
- {{Commons cat inline|Sarah Garland Boyd Jones}}
=Attribution=
- {{Source-attribution|M. A. Majors' Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities (1893)}}
- {{Source-attribution|Howard University. Medical Department & D. S. Lamb's A Historical, Biographical and Statistical Souvenir (1900)}}
=Bibliography=
- {{cite book|author1=Howard University. Medical Department|last2=Lamb|first2=Daniel Smith|title=A Historical, Biographical and Statistical Souvenir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_gaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA187|edition=Public domain|year=1900|publisher=Beresford}}
- {{cite book|last=Kollatz|first=Harry Jr. |title=True Richmond Stories: Historic Tales from Virginia's Capital|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ItJ2CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT70|date=31 July 2007|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Incorporated|isbn=978-1-62584-401-9}}
- {{cite book|last=Majors|first=Monroe Alphus|title=Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities|url=https://archive.org/details/notednegrowomen00heargoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/notednegrowomen00heargoog/page/n35 242]|edition=Public domain|year=1893|publisher=Donohue & Henneberry}}
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{{Virginia Women in History}}
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Category:People from Albemarle County, Virginia
Category:20th-century African-American physicians
Category:20th-century American physicians
Category:Physicians from Virginia
Category:Howard University alumni
Category:Health professionals from Richmond, Virginia
Category:19th-century American women physicians
Category:19th-century American physicians