Eunice D. Kinney

Eunice D. Kinney (1851–1942; , Draper; after first marriage, Gartley; after second marriage, Kinney) was a Canadian-born American physician who specialized in hypertrophic arthritis and neuritis. She was born and passed her early years in a log cabin in New Brunswick. Her educational opportunities were so limited that up to the age of 21, she had attended school for only two and half years. Kinney graduated from the Boston Training School for Nurses (now, Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing) in 1881, obtained her medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, in 1890, and her post-graduate degree from Tufts College Medical School in 1895. While working as a practicing physician, she engaged to some extent in literary work, editing several nursing and medical journals, and serving as a press correspondent. Kinney was the first woman physician to testify as an expert before the U.S. circuit court.

She was a great-granddaughter of Isaac Draper, an Englishman who settled in Ireland in the first half of the 18th century, engaging in manufacturing industries. He owned several linen factories and more than 50 houses, but was completely ruined by the invention of the spinning jenny in 1767. and on the editorial staff of the Medical Times, and Register, a progressive medical publication with influence and international circulation. In September 1919, while making a temporary home in Zaferia, Long Beach, California, Kinney was injured on The Pike by falling over a rope, wrenching her shoulder and wrists, and bruising her face. In 1925, after a nervous breakdown, Kinney removed permanently to Long Beach, where she fully recovered.

In 1940, Kinney became a patient in a Bell, California sanitarium where she died on June 28, 1942.