Mary Eugenie Pogue (1867 - 1932)

Born 7 Sep 1867 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States

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Died 3 Jan 1932 at age 64 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

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Biography

Mary was born in Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin in 1867 to Andrew Pogue and Mary Brown.^[1] She grew up in Fond du Lac.^[2] Her mother passed away when she was seventeen years old.

In the 1890s, Mary earned her doctorate and was a resident physician at the Illinois Hospital for Feeble-Minded Children in Chicago.^[3] In 1903, she opened the Oak Leigh Educational Sanitarium in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, for mentally disabled children. The sanitarium was part hospital, part school, teaching reading and math while also working with speech defects and nervous disorders.^[4]

In 1905, Mary presented a paper on her work at the sanitarium at a National Education Association conference.^[5] In 1913, she attended an American Neurologists and Alienists convention in Chicago, and by 1914, she was a member of and presenter at the Wisconsin Medical Women's society.^[6] By 1916, the Oak Leigh Educational Sanitarium closed.

In 1916, Mary tried and failed to found a new sanitarium in Chicago.^[7] By 1918, however, she managed to found the Mary E. Pogue Sanitarium in Wheaton, Illinois.^[8] Similar to Oak Leigh, the new sanitarium also focused on education as well as healthcare, listed as a private school by the Bureau of Education in 1919.^[9]

She lived in Milton and worked in Wheaton for the rest of her life.^[10] In 1932, she passed away at the Passovant Hospital in Chicago.^[1][11]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2M8-9TTD : 18 March 2018), Mary E Pogue, 03 Jan 1932; citing Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference , record number , Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm .
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN96-D2G : 24 May 2021), Mary Pogue in entry for Andrew Pogue, 1870.
3. ↑ "Children's Sanitarium." Lake Geneva Regional News, Nov 19, 1903. Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39527409/oak-leight-childrens-sanitarium-opens/
4. ↑ "Oak Leigh." Polk's Medical Register and Directory of the United States and Canada, R. L. Polk & Company, 1908, page 558. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=qcU0AQAAMAAJ&dq.
5. ↑ "[Topics] 1905." Fiftieth Anniversary Volume 1857-1906, National Education Association, 1907, page 649. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=aUlSWOfvL7wC&.
6. ↑ "Women Doctors Will Meet." Vilas County News, Oct 7. 1914. Chronicling America, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85040613/1914-10-07/ed-1/seq-2/.
7. ↑ "Bits of News." The Day Book, August 18, 1916. Chronicling America, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1916-08-18/ed-1/seq-29.
8. ↑ Bureau of Education. "Schools and Classes For Feeble-Minded and Subnormal Children 1918." Bulletin, 1919, no. 70, page 28. ERIC, https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED541371.pdf
9. ↑ Bureau of Education. "Education Directory, 1919-20. Part 4. Special Schools." Bulletin, 1919, no. 71, page 4. ERIC, https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED541376.pdf
10. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSY3-8TL : accessed 24 May 2022), Dr. Mary E Pogue M.D., Milton, DuPage, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 56, sheet 1A, line 1, family , NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 511; FHL microfilm 2,340,246.
11. ↑ "Former Resident Passes Away, Sunday, Jan. 3rd." Lake Geneva Regional News, Jan 14, 1932. Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39490546/obituary-for-mary-e-pogue/