Original located at the Utah State Historical Society.
Ellis Reynolds Shipp was born 20 January 1847 in David City, Iowa. Her parents joined the LDS Church and emigrated to Utah in 1852. In 1866, Ellis married Milford Shipp. She entered the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1875, graduating three years later. She wrote numerous medical articles and papers and was elected to Utah's Hall of Fame during her lifetime. Ellis Shipp died 31 January 1939.
The Ellis Reynolds Shipp papers (1866-1962) consist of an autobiography and diary transcription of Ellis Shipp (1847-1939) by her daughter, Ellis Shipp Musser. Ellis Shipp was a Mormon pioneer and doctor, specializing in obstetrics and nursing.
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Processed by Ann Reichman in 1979.
Forward by Ellis Shipp Musser.
Typewritten miscellaneous excerpts from Nine Minutes of the 64th Annual Meeting, 1939 June 13; reprint from "Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1965 July; and entries from diary.