Leonora Howard King (April 17, 1851 – June 30, 1925) was a Canadian physician and medical missionary who spent 47 years practising medicine in China. She was the first Canadian doctor to work in China.
Leonora Annetta Howard was the daughter of Peter T. and Dorothy E. Howard. She was born in Lansdowne, County Leeds, Canada West (Ontario), March 17, 1851. She was raised in Farmersville (now Athens). She was educated in Athens, Ontario and in New York. She qualified for and served as a teacher.
King was unable to attend medical school in Canada and received her medical degree from the University of Michiganin 1876. After joining the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the American Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society, she left for China in 1877 where she was a missionary doctor with the American Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society in the northern Chinese province of Chihli. She took up her residence in Peking
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Leonora Annetta Howard was the daughter of Peter T. and Dorothy E. Howard. She was born in Lansdowne, County Leeds, Canada West (Ontario), March 17, 1851. She was raised in Farmersville (now Athens). She was educated in Athens, Ontario and in New York. She qualified for and served as a teacher.
King was unable to attend medical school in Canada and received her medical degree from the University of Michiganin 1876. After joining the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the American Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society, she left for China in 1877 where she was a missionary doctor with the American Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society in the northern Chinese province of Chihli. She took up her residence in Peking
to read the rest of her biography, click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_King