Euthanasia Sherman Meade

Early life Euthanasia Sherman was born on September 8, 1837, in New York. She developed asthma and eventually moved to San José where she practiced for 25 years. In 1876, Meade and four other women physicians were admitted to the State Medical Society. having practiced medicine there since 1869.

After Sarah Winchester, widow of William Wirt Winchester who owned the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, moved to California and purchased a property in the Santa Clara Valley, Meade became Winchester's personal physician.

Meade also trained women in the medical career, including Mary Bennett Ritter, who wrote of her experiences with Sherman in her autobiography, More than Gold In California (1933). Of Meade, Ritter wrote, "The spirit of the profession at its best was imbued in me by this indomitable, high-minded woman."

Death Meade died November 1, 1895 due to a cerebral embolus from an endocarditis. She was cremated and her ashes placed at Cypress Lawn Cemetery. Of her death, Ritter wrote, "Many of the poor and the rich of San Jose felt that they had lost their best friend when Dr. Euthanasia Sherman Meade died."