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DE OLLOQUI, MARIA JUANITA (1876-1957)

DE OLLOQUI, MARIA JUANITA, doctor; b. Kingston, Kent Co., N.B., 1876, d/o Dr Rufino De Olloqui and Jane Sutherland; m. 1919, John William Maloney (q.v); d. Newcastle, 26 Apr 1957.

Maria Juanita De Olloqui's father was a native of Bilbao, Spain, who studied pharmacy in Cuba, took an MD at Harvard, and did postgraduate study in Edinburgh, Scotland. He then settled into a career at Richibucto, where he was medical officer for the Micmac Indians as well as a general practitioner.

In 1896 M. Juanita De Olloqui, who had acquired part of her education in Spain, became the first teacher of the school on the Big Cove Indian reserve, but she left the next year to study medicine, first at Dalhousie University (1897-99), and then at Tufts Medical College in Boston (MD 1902). She interned in Havana, and after returning to New Brunswick, she practiced at Moncton, Rexton, and Rogersville.

De Olloqui moved to the Miramichi following her marriage to J. William Maloney in 1919, when she was in her forties. She had an "office practice" in Newcastle which did not entail surgery or house calls. In 1923 she brought a suit for slander against Dr J. Alexander M. Bell of Newcastle, after he allegedly stated that one of her patients had been poisoned by medicine which she prescribed. She claimed $16,000 in damages, but the case was thrown out by the Supreme Court of New Brunswick.

De Olloqui did postgraduate study at Columbia University in 1923-24 and afterwards practiced as an ear, eye, nose, and throat doctor. Her marriage was childless.

Sources

[b] Stewart [m] Advocate 8 Apr 1919 [d] Leader 3 May 1957 / Advocate 6 Feb 1923, 13 Feb 1923, 25 Dec 1923; Hamilton (FIDS); NB Medical Registers


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