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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 226-227



MARY REED STRATTON, M. D.

	Dr. Mary Reed Stratton, most thoroughly trained for the practice 
of medicine and displaying marked skill and ability in the conduct of 
her professional interests, was born in Hudson, Wisconsin. February 1, 
1869, a daughter of the Rev. James Stewart and Caroline T. (Miller) 
Reed, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania. They removed to 
Wisconsin in early life and there resided for a number of years. The 
father was a prominent minister of the Presbyterian church and after 
leaving Wisconsin accepted a call to Chariton, Iowa. Later he came to 
Colorado, taking charge of the Presbyterian church in Alamosa, where he 
remained to the time of his death, which occurred in 1895, when he was 
fifty-seven years of age. He was a most earnest and zealous worker in 
behalf of his church, a forceful and fluent speaker, and his labors 
wrought great good in the moral progress and development of the 
communities in which he lived. His widow survives and is now a resident 
of Denver. Their family numbered six children, five of whom are still 
living: William A., who is a resident of Gainesville, Texas; Walter S., 
living in Denver; Helen F., who also makes her home in Denver; Ralph 
E., residing in Portland, Oregon; and Mary, of this review.

	In early girlhood Dr. Stratton attended school in Iowa and in 
Kansas and also pursued a normal school course in northern Missouri. 
She afterward attended medical college, becoming a pupil in the 
Northwestern University of Chicago, Illinois, in the women's 
department. There she was graduated in 1892 and entered upon the active 
work of the profession as house physician in the Girls' Industrial 
School of Iowa, where she remained for a year. In Chicago, Illinois, on 
the 10th of October, 1894, she married Charles J. Stratton, a son of 
Mr. and Mrs. William James Stratton, well known and prominent people of 
Elkhorn, Wisconsin. Charles J. Stratton was engaged in mining and was 
killed in a mine accident in the mountains of Colorado on the 18th of 
September, 1898. He was a manufacturer in Lexington, Kentucky, and had 
come to Colorado in order to supervise some mining property in the 
Cripple Creek district in which he was interested. Dr. Stratton had 
given up her practice subsequent to her marriage but after her 
husband's death resumed her connection with the profession. By her 
marriage she had become the mother of one son. Jack Reed Stratton, born 
in Cripple Creek district, February 18, 1897. He is a graduate of the 
Augusta Military Academy, Defiance, Virginia, and is now a non-
commissioned officer in the United States army, stationed at Camp 
Funston, Kansas. After the death of her husband Dr. Stratton returned 
to the Northwestern University of Chicago and resumed her studies. In 
1900 she finished her post-graduate work there, after which she became 
physician for the White Breast Fuel Company of Illinois, at one of 
their mines, Cleveland No. 4 Mine, in Iowa, continuing in that 
connection for tour years. In 1904 she returned to Colorado and since 
1907 has practiced in Denver. She has done excellent work in all 
branches of medical practice but is particularly proficient in the 
treatment of children's diseases, in which she specializes. Dr. 
Stratton belongs to the Medical Society of the County and City of 
Denver, to the Colorado State Medical Society and the American Medical 
Association. She is now physician for the State Home for Dependent 
Children. She is also examining physician for the Home Life Insurance 
Company of New York at Denver.

	Dr. Stratton belongs to the Women's Benefit Association of The 
Maccabees. Her religious faith is indicated by her membership in the 
Methodist Episcopal church. She has become well known during the period 
of her residence in Denver, and has attained enviable professional 
prominence and success and her influence has been a potent force for 
good along many lines outside the path of her profession.