Amador County Biographies

Ida E. Mushett

Submitted by Betty Wilson

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Dr. Ida E. Mushett, of Jackson, received her elementary education in 
Minneapolis, at the Episcopal and the Sisters’ Schools, and after the opening of 
the public schools she continued her education therein until her eighteenth 
year, and for the next five years she taught public school in that State. In 
1876 she came to California to visit her parents at Truckee. The next year she 
went to Portland, Oregon, where she married Dr. J.C. Andrews, to whom she had 
for some time been engaged, and with whom she then resided at the home he had 
established in Umatilla County, that State.
      Having decided to enter the medical profession, she attended a course of 
lectures at Scudder’s  Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, and 
graduated there in 1879. Returning to Oregon, she practiced her profession at 
Albany, Linn County, for five months; from April to September1879, she practiced 
at Portland; then until January 1881, at Walla Walla; next she went to San 
Francisco, and two years afterward she was divorced from her husband; then she 
practiced her calling in Sacramento County until October 17, 1882, when she was 
thrown from her carriage and received injuries that compelled her to use 
crutches for about three years.
      June 8, 1884, she went to Oleta, Amador County, to visit her old teacher, 
Mrs. C.M. Cooper, and while there she visited different towns of the county, 
delivering lectures, which were well received. On the 4th of July, 1884, she 
complied with a request to deliver a patriotic oration at Oleta, the orator of 
the day not arriving  from San Francisco; and for her oration she received many 
compliments. August 1 following she went to Jackson to lecture, and was so well 
pleased with the place that she decided to locate there and devote herself 
entirely to the practice of medicine, in which she has been very successful. She 
now owns a beautiful home in the pleasantest part of the city, and she has in 
view the establishment of a sanitarium: and her untiring energy will undoubtedly 
carry her to ultimate success.
       May 8, 1887, she married John A. Mushett, a native of Ohio, and by this 
marriage there is one child, born June 26, 1888, and named Charles Thurman. Mrs. 
Mushett has also a son by her first marriage, born September 29, 1880, and named 
Mark T. Andrews. He is a bright and promising boy, making rapid progress in his 
studies at the public schools of Jackson. 
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891 Pages 827-828