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| Daughter of: | Jabez Abel Bostwick (1830) and Helen Celia (1848) | ABL |
| Born: | 7/6/1872 on Statern Island, NY | GBFA |
| Died: | 3/3/1921 in Paris, France | ABL |
| Married (1): | Albert Joseph Carstairs, a Scottish colonel, on 7/6/1892 | GBFA |
| Children (1): | Marian Barbara (1900) | ABL |
| Married (2): | Francis Francis | ABL |
| Children (2): | Evelyn , Francis jr. | ABL |
| Married (3): | Dr. Serge Voronoff 1/7/1919 in Paris, France | ABL |
| She was known as Evelyn. The following are extracts from the Biographical Cyclopedia of American Women - Volume I. Evelyn was educated to speak fluent French as well as English, and in 1888 completed the course at Miss Dana's School, Morristown, NJ with honours in literature and arts. As she had always been interested in surgery, on account of her father's belief in a practical training for girls, and his requirement that his daughters should choose a trade or profession, she followed the course at the old Orthopaedic Hospital, NY, where she has since become accomplished as a scientist. Throughout her life she has had her father as an ideal. He trained her mind to be systematical and methodical, and her aim was to be worthy of his name. In 1892 her first marriage took her to England, where she lived until 1912. There she frequently engaged in parish and charitable nursing, and continued her studies at the clinics at King's College, London, to which she was invited by the leading surgeons of the faculty, and also at the Sorbonne, Paris, where she specialised in the arts and at the same time studied singing under Mme Marchesie. During the Boer War (1901 - 1903) she served as a nurse with the British Army and was decorated with the Military Cross for bravery. After her return to England there ensued a period of social and political activity. She was appointed by the London County Council Inspector of Schools and Hospitals for the Hoxton Division, London, and there organised the women's Conservative Union. In 1910 she campaigned in Derbyshire, and in 1911 the Hoxton Division, London, in the interest of Arthur Balfour, and contributed articles to London journals and magazines. At this period the militant woman suffrage agitation was at its height, but as a scientist, philosopher and practical politician, she declared her opposition to the suffrage movement, and especially to the militant methods. She stresses the physical and nervous difference between man and woman, that man proceeds by logic, woman by intuition; and held that man, because of his greater mental balance, is the one to govern, while woman has her important sphere in education, economics and the carrying out of good laws. While in England, she also became identified with the Girl Guides movement, and was herself an active sportswoman. She sailed her yacht Bona in yacht races in the Mediterranean, winning the King Edward VII Cup at Cannes in 1911, 1912 and 1913, the Prince of Monaco's Cup, the same years, and the Nice Yacht Club's Cup once. Upon the outbreak of the World War in August 1914 she offered her services as a nurse to the French Government. For a month she was stationed as an infirmière superieure at Valde-Grece Military Hospital, Paris, where she performed many minor operations and, after that, was on the front in Vosges, in Champagne, and on the Somme. In 1916 she was appointed head of the nursing staff of the Military Hospital at the Hotel Majestic, Nice, but broke down from overwork and was blind for four months. Upon her recovery on 13/2/1917 she was honoured by being appointed the only woman on the staff of the College de France with the title of Assistante de Laboratoire. Here she collaborated in the experiments and discoveries of Dr. Serge Voronoff, with whom she was associated for many years in scientific research, and whom she married in Paris on 1/7/1919. |
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| Doctor Voronoff, born in Russia in 1868, had a distinguished career as a surgeon in Egypt and France, with a speciality in bone and skin grafting. They wrote a book describing their work and its successes, which they entitled "Vivre". Evelyn translated it into English, entitling it "Life", and in 1920 they demonstrated their methods at the American Hospital in Chicago, Ill, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at the Mount Sinai Hospital, NY. |
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| Her daughter "Joe" Carstairs, 1900 - 1993, had an interesting career, and her success as a sportswoman is written up in the Sports sub-section of the Narrative. |
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