Ellis Reynolds Shipp

In her 50-year medical career, she led the School of Nursing and Obstetrics to train more than 500 women as licensed midwives.

Her mother died when she was fourteen years old, and her father remarried and relocated the family to Sanpete County.

[1]: 258  Brigham Young sponsored her education in the eastern United States, and she later did further medical studies at the University of Michigan in 1893.

[5] Along with her established school, Shipp also traveled to settlements to teach women about health and nursing, at the request of the Relief Society.

[7]: 373 Shipp served as a member of the General Board of the Relief Society, the women's organization for the LDS Church, from 1898 to 1907.

Her second talk, entitled "Medical Education of Women in Great Britain and Ireland" was in the final publication of the congress.

[5] Shipp combined motherhood and a medical practice, saying, "It is to me the crowning joy of a woman’s life to be a mother.