Elizabeth Reifsnyder

Martha Elizabeth Reifsnyder (17 January 1858 – 3 February 1922) was an American physician, surgeon, teacher, and missionary.

Early in her career, she was the only woman physician native to Perry County, Pennsylvania.

The work was begun in a temporary building, and the hospital was built in 1885 from plans drawn by Reifsnyder herself.

She left China about 1914 to come home for a visit, but owing to her health was never able to return.

She left in China a large sum of money which she had received for services, and with these funds the Woman's Union Missionary Society erected a maternity building, the first one in China, and named it in her honor, the Elizabeth Reifsnyder Hospital.