Current genealogy record
Generated at build time from the current GEDCOM (July 10, 2026). The record is validated by name and birth date so the page does not depend solely on a changeable GEDCOM ID.
- Born
- Jan 1836 — Paterson, Passaic Co., NJ
- Died
- 19 Oct 1903 — Asbury Park, NJ
- Burial
- Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, NJ
Parents
- Alexander Patterson Fonda (28 Apr 1794–3 Aug 1873)
- Margaret (1800–)
Marriages and children
James Hetherington Mackintosh (23 Nov 1837–5 Aug 1921)
Married 13 Nov 1867 — Paterson, NJ
No children listed in the current GEDCOM.
m. Paterson, NJ; [New Jersey Marriage Records - Sarah F. Fonda; Birth Year: abt 1841; Marriage Date: 13 Nov 1867; Spouse: James H. Mackintosh; Marriage Place: Paterson, Passaic]; [Mackintosh - Fonda - On Wednesday, Nov. 18, at Paterson, N.J., by Rev. Charles M. A. Hewes, Dr. James H. Mackintosh, of Indiana, to Sarah F., only daughter of A. P. Fonda, of Paterson, N.J. New York Times, November 16, 1867]
Genealogy notes
b. Paterson, Passaic Co., NJ; 1850 US Federal Census, Manhattan, New York City, NY; 1860 US Federal Census, Acquacknonk, Passaic Co., NJ; 1870 & 1880 US Federal Census, Paterson, Passaic Co., NJ; 1900 US Federal Census, Asbury Park City, Monmouth Co., NJ; bur. Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, NJ; o. Physician; [Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929 - Name: Sarah F. Mackintosh; Birth Date: 1836; Death Date: 19 Oct 1903; Death Place: Asbury Park, NJ; Type Practice: Allopath; Licenses: NJ, 1880; Medical School: Woman's Medical College of New York Infirmary for Women and Children, New York, 1872, (G); JAMA Citation: 41:1154]; [Ami McKay's The Virgin Cure - Ami McKay’s debut novel The Birth House was inspired by the former midwife’s home she and her husband bought in Nova Scotia near the Bay of Fundy. Her 2011 novel The Virgin Cure also has a real-life inspiration - McKay's great-great grandmother was a woman doctor who ministered to the poor in the 1870s in New York's Lower East Side. Dr. Sarah Fonda Mackintosh was in the first graduating class of the medical school founded by Emily and Elizabeth Blackwell, the first women ever to practise medicine in the U.S. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/books/story/2011/11/09/ami-mckay-virgin-cure.html]; [Sarah F. Mackintosh, M.D., became the first woman member of a New Jersey county society (Passaic County Medical Society), on October 7, 1872, and in June 1873, the first woman member of Medical Society of New Jersey. Mackintosh graduated in 1872 from the Women‘s Medical College of the New York Infirmary and started a practice in Paterson with her husband James. After joining the Passaic County Medical Society, she became the county society reporter. Mackintosh presented a paper on the use of chloral hydrate to the membership of the state medical society in 1874. (A History of Medicine and the Establishment of Medical Institutions in Middlesex County, New Jersey That Transformed Patient and Doctor Relationships During the Early Twentieth Century, Linda Whitfield-Spinner, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, May 2011)] >> www.fonda.org <<