Juliet Stillman Severance

Juliet Hall Worth Stillman Severance (1 July 1833 in De Ruyter, Madison County, New York – 3 September 1919 in New York City) was an American physician and feminist of the 19th century.

Biography Julie H. Severance married twice and had three children. She is a relative to abolitionist and suffragist Lucretia Mott.

She was one of the first woman physicians of the United States, having graduated in 1858 from Russell Trall’s Hygeio-Therapeutic College in New York. Severance later moved to Whitewater, Wisconsin where she opened her medical practice.

She opposed slavery, death penalty and abortion and supported the temperance movement. She was the leader of several Labour organizations. She participated in several anti-slavery, water-cure, dress reform, and dietary reform movements.

Works Her works centered around the idea of marriage equating a form of slavery, the women's rights to take control of their health and the ideology that men should be held at the same standard as women.

A Lecture on Industrial and Financial Problems (1881)