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  2. List of African-American women in medicine - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Garland Boyd Jones in 1893 became the first woman physician licensed in Virginia. [23] Sophia B. Jones was a Canadian-born American medical doctor, who founded the nursing program at Spelman College. She was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Michigan Medical School and the first black faculty member at Spelman. [24] M

  3. Elizabeth Blackwell - Wikipedia

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    At the same time, she gave lectures to women in the United States and England about the importance of educating women and the profession of medicine for women. [6] In the audience at one of her lectures in England, was a woman named Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who later became the first woman doctor in England, in 1865. [6]

  4. Alfreda Johnson Webb - Wikipedia

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    First Black woman to serve in the North Carolina General Assembly Alfreda Johnson Webb (born February 21, 1923, in Mobile , Alabama) was a professor of biology and a doctor of veterinary medicine. She was the first Black woman licensed to practice veterinary medicine in the United States.

  5. Rebecca Lee Crumpler - Wikipedia

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    Crumpler first practiced medicine in Boston, primarily serving poor women and children. After the American Civil War ended in 1865, she moved to Richmond, Virginia, believing treating women and children was an ideal way to perform missionary work. Crumpler worked for the Freedmen's Bureau to provide medical care for freedmen and freedwomen.

  6. Women in medicine - Wikipedia

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    She was also the first Colombian woman (and first woman from Latin America) to obtain a medical degree. Constance Stone (1856–1902) was the first woman to practice medicine in Australia. Dolors Aleu i Riera (1857–1913) was the first female medical doctor in Spain when she started practicing medicine in 1879.

  7. List of people from Columbus, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Prescott Bush (1895–1972), U.S. Senator elected from Connecticut, father and grandfather of Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, respectively; born in Columbus and spent his childhood there until 1908; moved back to Columbus for part of 1923 for a job in business; Patrick Clifford, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, born in ...

  8. List of first female physicians by country - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the first qualified female physician to practice in each country, where that is known. Many, if not all, countries have had female physicians since time immemorial; however, modern systems of qualification have often commenced as male only, whether de facto or de jure. This lists the first women physicians in modern countries.

  9. Ohio Women's Hall of Fame - Wikipedia

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    The Ohio Women's Hall of Fame was a program the State of Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services ran from 1978 [1] through 2011. The Hall has over 400 members. [2] In 2019, the Hall's physical archives and online records were transferred to the State Archives in the Ohio History Center.