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Dr Amelia Elvira “Mille” Wilson

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Dr Amelia Elvira “Mille” Wilson

Birth
Oakland County, Michigan, USA
Death
15 Mar 1957 (aged 80)
Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Plainwell, Allegan County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
Plot
W32/1
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Daughter of Dr. Jesse Wilson and Susan A. Richardson Mack. She attended Lombard University in Galesburg, Illinois and Michigan College of Medicine and Surgery in Detroit, Michigan, from which she was graduated with a medical degree in 1903. She was on staff at Detroit Emergency Hospital until 1905, when she returned to Rochester, Michigan to practice with her father. In 1907 she was appointed assistant physician at the Lapeer State Home and Training School (formerly the Michigan Home for the Feeble-Minded), a position she held until her retirement in 1948. Upon her retirement, she moved to Plainwell, Michigan, where she lived with a friend. She died in Lapeer in 1957.

Although Dr. Wilson's given name on her birth record was Amelia, she used the name Mille professionally throughout her adult life.

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Cenotaph here
Daughter of Dr. Jesse Wilson and Susan A. Richardson Mack. She attended Lombard University in Galesburg, Illinois and Michigan College of Medicine and Surgery in Detroit, Michigan, from which she was graduated with a medical degree in 1903. She was on staff at Detroit Emergency Hospital until 1905, when she returned to Rochester, Michigan to practice with her father. In 1907 she was appointed assistant physician at the Lapeer State Home and Training School (formerly the Michigan Home for the Feeble-Minded), a position she held until her retirement in 1948. Upon her retirement, she moved to Plainwell, Michigan, where she lived with a friend. She died in Lapeer in 1957.

Although Dr. Wilson's given name on her birth record was Amelia, she used the name Mille professionally throughout her adult life.

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Cenotaph here

Inscription

DR. MILLE E WILSON
1876-1957

Gravesite Details

Although Dr. Wilson's name is also carved on the headstone of her parents in Mount Avon Cemetery, Rochester, Oakland, County MI, she is not buried there.



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