Catherine Louise Roe Mabie [35409] 7013
- Born: 24 Mar 1872, Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA 32
- Died: 13 Jun 1963, Los Angeles County, California, USA at age 91 969
Another name for Catherine was Louisa M.
General Notes:
From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.
Noted events in her life were:
• Anecdote. 32 Dr. Catherine L. Mabie was born in a Baptist Parsonage in Rock Island, Illinois, March 24, 1872. Her mother died within a week and she was cared for in various homes until about four years old, when she was placed in the home of her father's sister, Mrs Watson Gleason of Chicago, Illinois, where she remained until adulthood. She had all of her education in Chicago, including that for an M.D. in an era when there were few women physicians. In 1898 she sailed as a medical missionary to the Belgian Congo under the American Foreign Missionary Society where she served until her return to America in 1941. Her first field was at Mbanza Mantake On furloughs she traveled extensively in Japan, China, Europe, and all around Africa, stopping at all ports. During furloughs she traveled in much of the United States, speaking in the north, and visiting Negro schools and colleges in the South. Dr. Mabie was an outstanding educator and served on the faculty of the Kimpase Training School from 1912 to 1941. Her hygiene and physiology books continue to be widely used, and she will long be remembered by many hundreds of mothers who were the object of her tender ministry as an obstetrician. She served on an educational commission in the Belgian Congo, known as the Phelps-Stokes Commission. She was aithor of numerous books in the Pikongo language and of "Congo Cameos" which is her autobiography.
• No Name, 1880, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. 4291 Catherine Louise Roe Mabie appeared on the census of 1880 in the household of Watson W. Gleason and Almeda Vasht Mabie Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
• Occupation: Baptist medical missionary in the Congoand Author of, Bet 1898 and 1941. 8797 Congo Crossing
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