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Jennie De La Montagnie Lozier 1841 ~ 1915

Physician and president of the Sorosis
Club, of New York City, where she was born. Her father was
William de la Montagnie, Junior. Her ancestors were Huguenot
French. She is a graduate of Rutger's Female Institute, now
Rutger's Female College, which conferred upon her in 1891 the
degree of Doctor of Science. She received a very thorough and
liberal education and traveled extensively after leaving school.
When but nineteen years of age she was instructor in the
languages and literature of Hillsdale College, Hillsdale,
Michigan, and was later chosen vice-principal of the women's
department of this college. In 1873 she married Doctor A. W.
Lozier, of New York City. Her interest in medicine was brought
about through her mother-in-law, Doctor Clemence S. Lozier, who
was founder and for twenty-five years dean of the New York
Medical College and Hospital for Women.
Mrs. Lozier graduated from this college
after her first child was born and was made professor of
physiology in that institution serving also on the hospital
staff. Before retiring from her professorship she was invited to
address the Sorosis Club on physical culture. She soon became a
member and prominent in the councils of this club. She is a
cultured woman, brainy, broad-minded, and forceful speaker. She
served on the various important committees of the Sorosis Club
and in 1891 was elected president of this organization and
re-elected in 1892.
In this year she was sent as a delegate
to the council of the Women's Federation of Clubs held in
Chicago, reading before this gathering an able paper on "Educational
Influences of Women's Clubs." In 1889 she was sent to
represent the New York Medical Club and Hospital for Women in
the International Homeopathic Congress in Paris, before which
she read a paper in French on the "Medical Education of
Women in the United States." She has been the president of
the Emerson and Avon Clubs. Was a member of the Association for
the Advancement of Women and also the "Patria Club."
She has read papers of great merit before the various literary
and reform associations of New York City and the United States.
She always speaks for the liberal and
thorough education of women not only in art and music but also
in chemistry, social economics, psychology, pedagogy, and
physiology. Mrs. Lozier has exerted a wide influence among the
club women of this country and occupies a commanding position in
the fields open to women for advancement in social, literary and
general culture.
Women of
America

Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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