Schoolteacher, Physician
Birth: September 6, 1845
Death: February 21, 1910
Burial: Vienna Township Cemetery
Xenaphon Betts and his wife Jane were among the later settlers of Vienna. Betts was a minister and served the Presbyterian church twenty-eight years. He was not only interest in his own township, but in the county's educational and religious affairs. He had five children, the best known being Dr. Helen Betts, now a successful practicing physician in Boston. She was the first woman physician in Trumbull County, being a student of D. B. Woods. After she had taken her medical course and graduate, practiced for a little time in Warren, she went to Youngstown, and then to Boston. She made a place for herself in the profession, when that profession hardly tolerated women.
http://viennapedia.viennahistory.org/people/betts-helen-l
https://digital.maag.ysu.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1989/11654/MCMS_V2_1932_11.pdf?sequence=14&isAllowed=y
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Birth: September 6, 1845
Death: February 21, 1910
Burial: Vienna Township Cemetery
Xenaphon Betts and his wife Jane were among the later settlers of Vienna. Betts was a minister and served the Presbyterian church twenty-eight years. He was not only interest in his own township, but in the county's educational and religious affairs. He had five children, the best known being Dr. Helen Betts, now a successful practicing physician in Boston. She was the first woman physician in Trumbull County, being a student of D. B. Woods. After she had taken her medical course and graduate, practiced for a little time in Warren, she went to Youngstown, and then to Boston. She made a place for herself in the profession, when that profession hardly tolerated women.
http://viennapedia.viennahistory.org/people/betts-helen-l
https://digital.maag.ysu.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1989/11654/MCMS_V2_1932_11.pdf?sequence=14&isAllowed=y
page 8.
Schoolteacher, Physician
Birth: September 6, 1845
Death: February 21, 1910
Burial: Vienna Township Cemetery
Xenaphon Betts and his wife Jane were among the later settlers of Vienna. Betts was a minister and served the Presbyterian church twenty-eight years. He was not only interest in his own township, but in the county's educational and religious affairs. He had five children, the best known being Dr. Helen Betts, now a successful practicing physician in Boston. She was the first woman physician in Trumbull County, being a student of D. B. Woods. After she had taken her medical course and graduate, practiced for a little time in Warren, she went to Youngstown, and then to Boston. She made a place for herself in the profession, when that profession hardly tolerated women.
http://viennapedia.viennahistory.org/people/betts-helen-l
https://digital.maag.ysu.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1989/11654/MCMS_V2_1932_11.pdf?sequence=14&isAllowed=y
page 8.
Birth: September 6, 1845
Death: February 21, 1910
Burial: Vienna Township Cemetery
Xenaphon Betts and his wife Jane were among the later settlers of Vienna. Betts was a minister and served the Presbyterian church twenty-eight years. He was not only interest in his own township, but in the county's educational and religious affairs. He had five children, the best known being Dr. Helen Betts, now a successful practicing physician in Boston. She was the first woman physician in Trumbull County, being a student of D. B. Woods. After she had taken her medical course and graduate, practiced for a little time in Warren, she went to Youngstown, and then to Boston. She made a place for herself in the profession, when that profession hardly tolerated women.
http://viennapedia.viennahistory.org/people/betts-helen-l
https://digital.maag.ysu.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1989/11654/MCMS_V2_1932_11.pdf?sequence=14&isAllowed=y
page 8.
Gravesite Details
She died in California, and in accordance with her last wish, she was cremated and her ashes brought to Vienna where they were scattered over the graves of her parents.
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