Louise Purington
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Louise Purington was a physician who lived on Allston Street from the 1880s until her death in 1916. She graduated from Mt. Holyoke Seminary in 1864 and from Hahnemann Medical College in 1874. Purington was the National Superintendent of the Department of Health and Heredity for the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
In 1885, Dr. Purington and Ella Gilbert Ives, established a private school for girls and operated it for nearly twenty-five years.
In 1903, at the World’s Convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Geneva, Switzerland, Purington was appointed world’s Superintendent of the Department of Health.
Her published works included many articles for leading periodicals and these two books:
The Literature of Missions, 1876
Medical Missions: Teaching and Healing, 1903