Ana Dolores Pérez Marchand (17 April 1885 – 19 January 1983) was a Puerto Rican physician and suffragist, one of the first Puerto Rican women to earn a medical degree.
Ana Dolores Pérez Marchand | |
|---|---|
 Dolores Pérez Marchand, from the 1911 yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania | |
| Born | 17 April 1885 |
| Died | 19 January 1983 (aged 97) |
| Other names | Lola Pérez Marchand |
| Alma mater | Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (MD) |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, obstetrician |
Early life and education
editPérez Marchand was born in Utuado, and raised in Ponce, the daughter of Vicente Pérez Andújar and Monserrat Marchand Muñoz.[1] She attended Wilson College in Pennsylvania. She completed her medical at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1911,[2] where she was also editor-in-chief of the yearbook.[3] She was one of the first Puerto Rican women to earn a medical degree.[4][5] She completed further studies in obstetrics, gynecology, and urology at Johns Hopkins University, and at hospitals in Baltimore and New York.[1]
Career
editPérez Marchand was active in the causes of women's suffrage and prohibition in Puerto Rico.[6] She was president of the Puerto Rican Women's League in Ponce.[1] Beginning in 1914, Pérez Marchand was an obstetrician at the Hospital de Damas in Ponce. In 1928 she lectured in Virginia on child health.[7][8] In 1933 she was removed from her civil service position as medical obstetrician for political reasons, and appealed the decision up to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in 1935, but the removal was permitted to stand.[9]
Personal life and legacy
editPérez Marchand married Ramón Gerónimo Goyco in 1914; they had a daughter, Irene, and later divorced. She died in 1983, aged 97 years, in Ponce.[1] Her papers are in the Museo de la Historia de Ponce.[5] There is a "Calle Ana D. Perez Marchand", named for her, in Ponce, she was buried at Cementerio Católico San Vicente de Paul also in Ponce.[10]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Ana Dolores Pérez Marchand". EnciclopediaPR. 2022-04-03. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ^ "Women of All Nations Studying Medicine". The Wahpeton Times. 1908-02-13. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1911). Scalpel : the 1911 yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. [Philadelphia, PA : Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania]. p. 69 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Méndez-Méndez, Serafín; Fernandez, Ronald (2015-07-14). Puerto Rico Past and Present: An Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-4408-2832-4.
- ^ a b "Collections". Ponce History Museum. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ^ "Women's Temperance Societies". National Women's History Museum. 2018-09-10. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ^ "Dr. Perez Marchand to Lecture on Caring for the Health of Children". Ledger-Star. 1928-10-24. p. 17. Retrieved 2024-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "State Health Speaker will be Heard Here". The Virginian-Pilot. 1928-10-21. p. 49. Retrieved 2024-04-14 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Pérez Marchand v. Garrido Morales (May 7, 1935), Supreme Court of Puerto Rico No. 6877 48 P.R. Dec. 457; Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School.
- ^ "Ponce School of Medicine". Newswise. Retrieved 2024-04-14.