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{{Short description|Argentine-born American physician; medical missionary (1849–1942)}}
{{Infobox medical person
| honorific_prefix = Dr.
| honorific_suffix = M.D.
| image = Anna Julia Lore Mcgrew (passport photo, 1920).png
| caption = U.S. passport photo, 1920
| birth_name = Anna Julia Lore
| birth_date = June 17, 1849
| birth_place = [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina
| death_date = February 5, 1942
| death_place = [[Washington, D.C.]]
| education = [[University of Michigan]]
| occupation = {{hlist|physician|medical missionary}}
| field = Women's health
| work_institutions = [[Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church]]
}}
'''Julia Lore McGrew''' (1849–1942) was an American physician and medical missionary in India. Affiliated with the [[Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church]],<ref name="Wheeler1883">{{cite book |last1=Wheeler |first1=Mary Sparkes |title=First Decade of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With Sketches of Its Missionaries |date=1883 |publisher=Phillips & Hunt |pages=179–88 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_kpBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA179 |access-date=1 February 2024 |language=en |chapter=Anna Julia Lore, M.D.}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> she was, in 1876, the first to provide medical missionary services in [[Moradabad]].<ref name="Price1907">{{cite book |editor-last1=Price |editor-first1=Frederick B. |title=India Mission Jubilee of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Southern Asia: Story of the Celebration Held at Bareilly, India, from December 28th, 1906, to January 1st, 1907, Inclusive |date=1907 |publisher=Methodist Publishing House |page=105 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oH-tAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA105 |chapter=Work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society – Medical |first=Edna |last=Beck |access-date=2 February 2024 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Anna Julia Lore was born in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina, June 17, 1849.<ref name="auspostalhistory">{{cite web |title=Julia Lore, Medical Missionary, Moradabad, India 1874|url=https://www.auspostalhistory.com/articles/432.php |website=auspostalhistory.com |access-date=1 February 2024 |language=en-AU |date=4 April 2023}}</ref> Her father, Dallas Dayton Lore, D.D. (1815–1875), joined the Philadelphia Conference of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]] in 1837. In 1840, he was nominated as a missionary to Africa, but circumstances prevented his entering upon the work. In 1847, he went as a missionary to Buenos Aires, where, two years after, Julia was born. McGrew's mother, Rebecca (née, Toy) (1819–1903), accompanied her husband to Buenos Aires, and here they remained seven years.<ref name="Wheeler1883" /> Julia's siblings were Isaiah, Dallas, Elizabeth, and Frank.<ref name="familysearch" />

After founding the Methodist mission, Dr. Lore returned from Buenos Aires, and was sent upon a tour of observation in [[New Mexico Territory]], with a view to the establishment of a mission in that Territory, after which he entered the pastorate. In 1864, he was elected editor of the ''Northern Christian Advocate'' ([[Auburn, New York]], which position he held until his death.<ref name="Wheeler1883" />

It was while in the city of [[Buffalo, New York]] and when about twelve years of age, that Julia joined "Grace Church", of which her father was pastor. From that time, she was particularly interested Christian missionary work, and began teaching a class of young girls in a German Mission School. As she grew to maturity, her interest in mission work increased.<ref name="Wheeler1883" />

She spent some time in preparatory work in [[Clifton Springs, New York|Clifton Springs]], afterward in the medical college in [[Philadelphia]],<ref name="Gracey1881" /> and three years at the [[Michigan Medicine|medical school]] of the [[University of Michigan]] at [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], graduating in 1873,<ref name="TheChronicle1886">{{cite journal |title=Members of N.Y. Alumni Association |journal=The Chronicle |date=December 18, 1886 |volume=18 |issue=6 |page=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ULfmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA89 |access-date=1 February 2024 |publisher=Chronicle Association. |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> with the first class that included women.<ref name="Eveningstar1942" /> Subsequently, she spent nine months at the [[Brigham and Women's Hospital|Woman's Hospital]], in [[Boston]].<ref name="Wheeler1883" />

==Career==
In 1874, then living in [[Auburn, New York]],<ref name="Gracey1881">{{cite book |last1=Gracey |first1=Annie Ryder |title=Medical Work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society: Methodist Episcopal Church |date=1881 |publisher=A.O. Bunnell, printer |pages=70–85 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eKZAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA70 |access-date=2 February 2024 |language=en |chapter=Appointment of Miss Julia Lore, M. D.}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> she offered herself to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. At the executive committee held in Philadelphia in the spring of 1874, she was accepted as medical missionary for India, sent out by the New York Branch.<ref name="Gracey1881" /> With her parents, she attended the International Camp-meeting, held at [[Round Lake (village), New York|Round Lake, New York]] in July 1874.<ref name="Wheeler1883" />

McGrew sailed from the [[Port of New York and New Jersey|port of New York]], October 20, 1874.<ref name="Wheeler1883" /> She reached her destination in December, in time to the Annual Conference. Immediately after the close of Conference, McGrew proceeded to Moradabad. She at once commenced the study of the language, made herself familiar with the customs and habits of the people, and soon made frequent professional visits. But as the days passed, it was found necessary, in order to reach the women more effectually, to have a dispensary. She succeeded in renting a property in the native city centrally located, and well adapted to their needs. This building was opened in March 1875, and by July 1, 400 patients had been prescribed for at the building, and a great number of professional visits were made to the city and villages.<ref name="Gracey1881" />

The record of the first eight months of medical work given in the Annual Report of 1875, was 840 patients treated at Dispensary; and 1,780 prescriptions compounded. At the Mission House, about 400 cases were prescribed for, and in the city, about 100 houses had been visited, with an average of three patients in each house. Once a week, McGrew visited a Muslim neighborhood that had a girls' school. Here sick women and children were treated. Visits were also made to other neighborhoods, where medicines were in great demand from all sorts of people, particularly during the hot season. Over 1,170 patients were registered that year as visiting the Dispensary, and over 2,000 prescriptions dispensed. In the Annual Report of 1876, McGrew stated, "that increased familiarity with the people in their everyday life and habits of thought, have increased our opportunities for more direct Missionary effort. In several instances, the visits of the Doctor have opened the doors of the zenanas to the Bible women, and regular instruction is being given in many families of the highest caste."<ref name="Gracey1881" />

On September 11, 1876, she married the Rev. George Harrison McGrew (1846–1917),<ref name="familysearch">{{cite web |title=Anna Julia Lore Female 17 June 1849 – 5 February 1942 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KZPN-1JY |website=www.familysearch.org |access-date=1 February 2024}}</ref> whom she had met in the U.S. before leaving for India, and who was afterward sent out as a missionary by the parent Board. After marriage, she continued her medical missionary work.<ref name="Wheeler1883" />

After serving in Moradabad three years, in house and zenana practice,<ref name="TheMethodist">{{cite book |title=The Methodist Year-book |date=1883 |publisher=Philips & Hunt |page=33 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aw_ZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA33 |access-date=2 February 2024 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> and extending her work to neighboring villages which she visited,<ref name="Price1907" /> McGrew took charge of the medical work at [[Bareilly]], where she had to contend with flood, famine, and pestilence until 1880.<ref name="Baker1896">{{cite book |last1=Baker |first1=Frances J. |title=The Story of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1869–1895 |date=1898 |publisher=Curts & Jennings |pages=131, 140 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PQ7PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA140 |access-date=2 February 2024 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> She then spent three years in [[Kanpur|Cawnpore]] (1880–1883).<ref name="TheChronicle1886" />

The family returned to the U.S. in 1883. In 1886, they were living in [[Meriden, Connecticut]]. where Rev. McGrew was pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church.<ref name="TheChronicle1886" />

==Personal life==
The couple had four children: James (b. 1877), Elizabeth (b. 1878), Dallas (b. 1882), and Bessie (b. 1883).<ref name="familysearch" />

Julia McGrew died at her home in [[Washington, D.C.]], February 5, 1942,<ref name="Eveningstar1942">{{cite news |title=Dr. Julia McGrew Dies; Was India Missionary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star-dr-julia-mcgrew-dies-was/140054955/ |access-date=1 February 2024 |work=Evening star |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |date=6 February 1942 |page=17}}</ref> and was buried at [[Kingwood, West Virginia]].<ref name="TheMichigan1942">{{cite journal |title=Medical School |journal=The Michigan Alumnus |date=March 20, 1943 |volume=49 |issue=17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u_rhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA296 |access-date=2 February 2024 |publisher=Alumni Association of the University of Michigan. |language=en}}</ref>

==Selected works==
* "Concerning Mothers-in-Law and Daughters-in-Law", ''The Female missionary intelligencer'', 1878<ref name="TheFemale1878">{{cite journal |last1=McGrew |first1=Julia Lore |title=Concerning Mothers-in-Law and Daughters-in-Law |journal=The Female Missionary Intelligencer |date=1878 |volume=XX |page=68 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=By4EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA68 |access-date=2 February 2024 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
* "The Goddess Kali and Her Worshipers", ''The Heathen Woman's Friend'', 1888.<ref name="TheHeathen">{{cite journal |title=The Goddess Kali and Her Worshipers |first=Julia Lore |last=McGrew |journal=The Heathen Woman's Friend |date=July 1888 |volume=XX |issue=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A35IAAAAYAAJ |access-date=2 February 2024 |publisher=Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
* "Trees in Legend and History", ''Woman's Missionary Friend'', 1913<ref name="WomansMissionary1913">{{cite journal |last1=McGrew |first1=Julia Lore |title=Trees in Legend and History |journal=Woman's Missionary Friend |date=July 1913 |volume=XLV |issue=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XanNAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA233 |access-date=2 February 2024 |publisher=Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

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[[Category:1849 births]]
[[Category:1942 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century American medical doctors]]
[[Category:Methodist missionaries in India]]
[[Category:Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church]]
[[Category:19th-century American women medical doctors]]
[[Category:Medical doctors from Buenos Aires]]
[[Category:University of Michigan Medical School alumni]]

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