Phebe Stone

Phebe Stone
A young Chinese woman with dark hair arranged in a bouffant updo
Phebe Stone, from the 1915 yearbook of Goucher College
Born1891
Jiujiang
DiedMay 1930
Occupation(s)Physician, missionary, hospital founder
RelativesMary Stone (sister)

Phebe Stone (1891 – May 1930) was a physician and medical missionary who worked in Kiukiang (Jiujiang), China. She was the younger sister of the notable missionary Mary Stone, also known as Shi Meiyu. Her family was from the Hubei province in China and were one of a handful of Christians in the area. Stone went on to Goucher College in the United States for her undergraduate degree and later was awarded a fellowship to attend Johns Hopkins, where she received medical degree in 1918. Stone was the first Chinese woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Afterward, Stone briefly worked as a medical intern at a women's hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, then returned to her hometown of Jiujiang to take over the Danforth Hospital established by her sister Mary. She later founded the Bethel Mission and its encompassing hospital in 1920 along with Mary and the American missionary Jennie Hughes. She contracted tuberculosis and died in 1930.