Dr. Angela B. Farley
In no profession in which woman has entered has she demonstrated her ability more largely than in the practice of medicine. Given the intellectual power necessary for the mastery of the comprehensive, scientific principles which underlie the work, she adds to this the sympathy and the ready intuition which enables her to quickly understand her patient. In her chosen life work Dr. Angela B. Farley has won excellent success, specializing in her practice in the treatment of women’s and children’s diseases. She was born in Cincinnati, a daughter of John S. and Catherine Farley. Her father was a native of Ireland and about the time he attained his majority came to the new world, thinking that better business opportunities might be secured on this side of the Atlantic. He is still living at the age of eighty years and remains an active factor in the business world. For years he was connected with the old Cincinnati Insurance Company and is now engaged in the fire insurance business, being the oldest insurance man in the city.
Dr. Farley pursued her education in the Convent of Our Lady of Mercy and afterward took a business course prior to entering the Miami Medical College. She completed her preparation for the profession by graduation with the class of 1906 and put her theoretical knowledge to the practical test as interne in the Children’s Episcopal Hospital, where she remained for a year. She then began an independent practice and has done much important work as both physician and surgeon. She is enjoying an increasing patronage in surgery and has won the recognition of the profession as an able representative of that branch of the work. She holds to high ideals in her chosen calling and conforms closely to the strictest professional ethics. She has been a member of the Academy of Medicine since 1907 and belongs also to the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In addition to a large and growing private practice which is increasing in importance as the years go by, she is serving as medical examiner for the Ladies Catholic Benefit Association, the Catholic Ladies of Columbus and the ladies auxiliary of the Knights of St. John. Thoroughly womanly, she has a most pleasing personality and manifests in all her social as well as professional relations good judgment, tact and progressive spirit.
From Cincinnati, The Queen City, Volume III, by Rev. Charles Frederic Goss, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912