Husband Dr. Robert Lowry Sibbet, M.D. 1
Born: - near Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA
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Died: Aft 1886
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Father: Thomas Sibbet (1797- ) 2 3
Mother: Catherine Ryan (1793- ) 2
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Robert Lowry Sibbet, M.D.
He graduated in Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with the degree of A. B., in 1856. He afterward engaged in teaching a classical school, first in Centreville, and then in Shippensburg, in his native county, until 1862, when he began the study of medicine. He graduated with the degree of M. D. in the University of Pennsylvania, in 1866, and in the meantime the degree of A. M. was conferred upon him. He practiced his profession in Harrisburg and afterward in New Kingston. In 1870 he visited Europe, where he spent two full years in the universities and hospitals, being seven months in Paris during the entire siege, two months in Berlin, ten months in Vienna and two months in London. After returning from Europe Dr. Sibbet settled in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, as a general practitioner. In 1873 the medical society of the State appointed him chairman of a committee on medical legislation, and it was mainly through his persevering efforts, in the midst of great opposition, that the passage of a registration law was secured. In 1882, nine months after the law took effect, he collected statistics and made a report to the society, which showed that 6,492 practitioners had voluntarily complied with the law in the several counties, that 838 of these were practicing without graduation, and that 105 were females. At the same time he corresponded with a large number of prominent medical gentlemen in the United States, and in 1876 was instrumental in effecting the organization of the American Academy of Medicine, an association founded on protracted courses of literary and medical study with degrees corresponding thereto. As a recognition of these services he was elected "vice-president of the section of obstetrics in the Ninth International Medical Congress, to be held in Washington, D. C., in 1887." He was a frequent contributor to the literature of his profession, and also completed a series of chapters on the Franco-Prussian war and siege of Paris. [HCC 1886, 395]