Dr Lillian Heath Nelson
In 1893, Dr. Lillian Heath became the first woman to practice medicine in Wyoming and one of the first women to practice medicine west of the Mississippi River.
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Sarah Parker Remond
International anti-slavery lecturer and activist for African American and women’s suffrage. Later, she moved to Italy where she became a medical doctor.
Susan Dimock
Dr. Susan Dimock (1847-75) was Resident Physician at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Roxbury from 1872-75.
Margaret Curtis
National golf champion who, with her sister, opened the East Boston Dispensary, and co-founded the Curtis Cup, the best known team trophy for amateur women golfers.
Harriot Curtis
National golf champion and skiier who, with her sister, opened the East Boston Dispensary, became a dean at Hampton Institute in Virginia and co-founded the Curtis Cup, the best known team trophy for amateur women golfers.
Harriet Boyd Hawes
Archeologist Harriet Boyd Hawes became the first woman to lead an archaeological expedition when she discovered the ancient town of Gournia on Crete. In later years she also served as a volunteer nurse during the Greco-Turkish War and World War I.
Dr Harriet B Jones
Dr. Harriet B. Jones was the first woman licensed as a physician in West Virginia, in 1885.
Dr Helen Cordelia Putnam
Co-founder of the American Child Health Association, organized to promote cleaner schools, better health care for children, and the teaching of health education with the involvement of parents in 1923. While serving as president of the American Academy of Medicine, she organized a conference that resulted in the establishment of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality.
Dr Sarah Solley
Dr. Sarah Dolley was the third woman medical graduate in America, the first woman physician to complete a hospital internship and a co-founder of one of the first general women’s medical societies in the United States, the Practitioners’ Society of Rochester, New York.
Dr Marie E Zakrzewska
In 1862, Dr. Marie Zakrzewska founded the New England Hospital for Women and Children, the first hospital in Boston—and the second hospital in America—to be run by women physicians and surgeons.