Elizabeth Martha Farrand | |
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 Four University of Michigan Women Medical Students of the Eighteen Eighties. Elizabeth M. Farrand is second from the right | |
| Born | March 31, 1852 |
| Died | August 17, 1900 (aged 48) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Occupation(s) | Librarian, physician, and author |
Elizabeth Martha Farrand (March 31, 1852 – August 17, 1900)[1] was an author and librarian. She wrote the second book-length history of the University of Michigan and the one that was most frequently cited thereafter, History of The University of Michigan, in 1885.[2] Prior to that she served as assistant librarian at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 1878 until 1884 at a time when that position and the university librarian were the only full-time positions in the library and both were listed among the “faculty” positions in the university's general register. In a seemingly surprising career change, she left the library after being accepted to the university's medical school, from which she received an M.D. degree in 1887. After a year's residency training at the Woman's Hospital in Detroit, she spent the rest of her life in private medical practice in Port Huron, Michigan, where she died in 1900.