Mehitable Sunderland
Mehitable Sunderland (1807-1901) is recognized as the first physician in Boston’s Hyde Park.
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Minna Hall
In 1896, co-founded the Massachusetts Audubon Society
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.
Ella F Boyd
A teacher, an amateur geologist, an officer in the Boston Society of Natural History and the Agassiz Association, and a member of the Hyde Park school board for fifteen years.
Armeda Gibbs
Gibbs was an abolitionist who helped escaped slaves. During the Civil War, she became the first female nurse for the Union.
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
“America’s first lady of engineering”, industrial efficiency expert.
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu
Elisa Leonida was one of the first formally-recognised female engineers in Europe.
Kate Gleason
The USA’s first woman engineer, “Concrete Kate” Gleason, mechanical engineer and house builder.
Dr Lucy Anne Kirk
Successful homoeopathic physician of Boston
Vera Huckel
Vera Huckel started work at the NACA in 1939.At the time, very few women worked as computers. By 1945 she was a section head in charge of up to 17 women, having worked as mathematician, aerospace engineer, and supervisory mathematician.