Dr. Kate J. Jackson | |
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Born | Katharine Johnson April 7, 1841 |
Died | February 24, 1921 | (aged 79)
Education | Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary |
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Relatives | James Caleb Jackson (father-in-law) |
Medical career | |
Field | water cure |
Institutions | Jackson Sanatorium |
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Katharine Johnson Jackson (better known as Kate J. Jackson; April 7, 1841 – February 24, 1921) was an American physician affiliated with the water cure movement at the Jackson Sanatorium in Dansville, Livingston County, New York. Earlier in her life, she studied stenography, and became one of the first women to adopt that profession.[1]