Fearn, Anne Walter (1865–1939)
Fearn, Anne Walter (1865–1939)
American physician. Name variations: Anne Walter, Anne Fearn. Born Anne Walter, May 21, 1865, in Holly Springs, Mississippi; died April 28, 1939, in Berkeley, California; dau. of Harvey Washington Walter (prominent attorney, died 1878) and Martha Fredonia (Brown) Walter; Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, MD (1893); m. John Burrus Fearn (medical missionary), April 21, 1896 (died 1926); children: Elizabeth Fearn (1897–1902).
Headed women's hospital for Woman's Board of Foreign Missions of Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Suzhou (Soochow), China (1893–96); established 1st coeducational medical school for Chinese students (1895); ran private practice in Suzhou (1896–1907); lived in Shanghai (1908–38), managing own hospital, Fearn Sanatorium (1916–26), working as voluntary clinician at Margaret Williamson Hospital for Chinese Women, and conducting private practice; helped found Shanghai American School (1912); was welfare worker with relief agencies in Shanghai.
See also autobiography, My Days of Strength (1939).