the education of female medical students at Mount Holyoke. The scholarship exists today as the Dr. Mary P. Dole Medical Fellowship. Funds for the scholarship were also provided by the sale of her autobiography. Dole died in her home in Shelburne in 1947 and is buried in the East Shelburne Cemetery. Honors In 1902, Dole was elected as a member of the Franklin District Medical Society. She was President of the Mount Holyoke Club of Franklin County and Honorary President of the Mount Holyoke Club of New Haven In 1937, she became one of the fourteen first recipients of Mount Holyoke College's Medal of Honor for her service to the college as an alumna. Autobiography She privately published her autobiography, A Doctor in Homespun, in 1941. It chronicles her life and her medical practice, focusing on her time as a "country doctor." References External links Mary Phylinda Dole Papers at Mount Holyoke College 1862 births 1947 deaths Physicians from Connecticut Mount Holyoke College alumni American women physicians American expatriates in France American expatriates in Germany People from Shelburne, Massachusetts