Hall, Rosetta Sherwood (1865–1951)
Hall, Rosetta Sherwood (1865–1951)
Canadian-American physician and missionary. Name variations: Rosetta Sherwood. Born Rosetta Sherwood on Sept 19, 1865, in Liberty, NY; died April 5, 1951, in Ocean Grove, NJ; dau. of Rosevelt Rensler Sherwood and Phoebe (Gildersleeve) Sherwood; m. William James Hall (missionary doctor), June 27, 1892 (died 1894); children: son (b. 1893), dau. (1895–1898).
Interned at Nursery and Children's Hospital on Staten Island and worked at Methodist Deaconess's Home in NYC (late 1880s); joined (Methodist) Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and went to Seoul, Korea (1890); founded Baldwin Dispensary School (later Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital) in Seoul (early 1890s); through marriage, became a Canadian citizen (1892); worked for Korea mission, was examining physician to children's mission in NY, and advisor to medical students at International Medical Missionary Union, NYC (1895–97); worked in Pyong Yang, Korea (1897–1917), serving as head of Institute for the Blind and the Deaf; built Edith Margaret Memorial Wing of Women's Dispensary (1899, destroyed by fire 1906) and Women's Hospital of Extended Grace (1908); worked in Seoul (1917–33), helping found Women's Medical (Training) Institute (1928); wrote, lectured and practiced medicine in NY (1933–43); designed braille-like system for reading Korean alphabet. Received certificate of merit from Japanese Government General (1915).