Mary Whitmarsh
Mary Whitmarsh (1853-1943) was a pioneering pharmacist who owned and operated a drug store in Boston for over 20 years, earning acclaim as a chemist and druggist.
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Mary E P Davis
Co-founded the American Journal of Nursing and the American Nurses Association
Mehitable Sunderland
Mehitable Sunderland (1807-1901) is recognized as the first physician in Boston’s Hyde Park.
Dr Anna Quincy Churchill
Anna Quincy Churchill (1884-1971) was a physician who served on the faculty of Tufts University School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine from 1918 to 1954.
Armeda Gibbs
Gibbs was an abolitionist who helped escaped slaves. During the Civil War, she became the first female nurse for the Union.
Dr Lucy Anne Kirk
Successful homoeopathic physician of Boston
Dr Mary Safford-Blake
Mary Jane Safford (1834-1891), known as the “Cairo Angel,” was a nurse during the Civil War and later a physician and advocate for women’s health and suffrage. She taught at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Jessie Garnett
Boston’s first African American woman dentist
Dr Lucy Ellen Sewall
Surgeon, and Resident Physician at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Roxbury from 1872-75.
Frances Slanger
The first American nurse in the European Theater to be killed in combat during World War II.