In 1870, the family moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts, where she attended public schools.[2][2] She decided to study medicine out of respect for her father's career as a doctor, and on the advice of the well-respected physician, Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi.[3] She became a student at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1885, where in 1888 she graduated as an M.D. She became an intern at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston where she studied with Dr. Marie Zakrzewska.[4] She did post-doctoral work in Paris, Stockholm, and London.[3]