Mary Young Ridenbaugh

Ridenbaugh's works include:

• Enola, Or Her Fatal Mistake (1886)
• The Biography of Ephraim McDowell: The Father of Ovariotomy (1890).^[2]

Selected Reprints from Biography of Ephraim McDowell:

• Portrait and Biographical Sketch of J.^[3] Harvie Dew, M.D. (1890),^[4]
• Biographical sketch of George Engelmann, M.D., 1809-1884 (1896).^[5]
• A sketch of the life of Joseph Eastman, M. D., LL. D., president of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, etc., Indianapolis, Ind (1905).^[6]

She was the granddaughter of Ephraim McDowell and the wife of William Ridenbaugh. She was also known as Mary Thompson Valentine^[7] and Mary Thompson Young.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13]}