Rosetta Sherwood Hall

Rosetta Sherwood Hall (born Liberty, Sullivan County, New York; September 19, 1865, died 1951) was a medical missionary and educator. She founded the Pyongyang School for the Deaf and Blind. Dr. Hall spent forty-four years in Korea, helping develop educational resources for the handicapped and implementing women's medical training.

Biography

Rosetta Sherwood was born in Liberty, New York, the eldest of English immigrants, Phoebe (née Gildersleeve) and Rosevelt Rensler Sherwood.[1] She graduated from Oswego State Normal School in 1883 and worked as a local school teacher.[1] After attending an 1886 visiting-lecture about the need for medical missions in India, she enrolled in the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania.[1] She graduated with her medical degree by 1889.[1]

While working in lower Manhattan at Madison Street Mission Dispensary, she met her Canadian-born husband Dr. William James Hall.[1] She lost her U.S. citizenship when she married a Canadian. Dr. William Hall also was working at the same dispensary and was listed to leave on a medical mission to China with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada, which inspired her to for a similar position as her spouse.[1]

In 1894, she initiated the teaching of sight-impaired people in Korea by teaching a blind girl, using a modification of Braille that she had developed. In 1909, she established a school for people with hearing impairments. Along with two Korean doctors, she founded the Chosun Women's Medical Training Institute in 1928, with the goal of eventually elevating it to a Women's Medical School. Today, this institute has become Korea University College of Medicine in Seoul. She was also responsible for getting or helping get other institutions of higher learning established.

In 1933 she left Korea.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sicherman, Barbara; Hurd Green, Carol (1980). Notable American Women: The Modern Period : a Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. pp. 299–300. ISBN 0674627334.

Bibliography

  • Hall, Rosetta S. (1906) "The Clocke class for blind girls," Korea Mission Field 2 (No.9, July) 175-76.
  • Hall, Rosetta Sherwood, ed. (1990) Life of Rev. William James Hall: Medical Missionary to the Slums of New York, Pioneer Missionary to Pyong Yang, Korea; Introduction by Willard F. Mallalieu. https://archive.org/details/lifeofrevhall00unknuoft
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