Elmira Y. Howard

Elmira Y. Howard (3 May 1841 – 7 August 1921) was an American doctor and the first woman to open a medical practice in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was called "the first woman physician to practise west of the Allegheny Mountains".

Life Elmira Y. Howard was born in Shelby, Ohio on 3 May 1841.

In 1859, she married Jerome B. Howard, an artist. Until her illness, Ellen Howard had co-owned and run a bookstore in Palmyra, Missouri. Howard graduated in 1869.

That year, Howard moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she opened an office for practice: the first woman in the city to do so. She studied both allopathy and homeopathy.

After 25 years in practice in Cincinnati, Howard moved to Marion County, Missouri.

Later years and death During the last three years of her life, she lived with her son, Dr. Jerome Howard in Covington, Kentucky. She died there on Sunday 7 August 1921.