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Clara Barton
b. 1821, Oxford, Massachusetts; d. 1912, Glen Echo, MarylandAlthough she never received formal medical training, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and the National First Aid Society in 1904. She gravitated toward nursing at a... Read more
Rebecca Lee
b. 1833, Richmond, Virginia; d. 1881(?), location unknownRebecca Lee Crumpler worked as a nurse in Massachusetts from 1852 to 1860 and, in 1864, became the first African American woman to earn a Doctress of Medicine degree, which... Read more
Lucretia Mott
b. 1793, Nantucket, Massachusetts; d. 1880, near Abington, PennsylvaniaBorn into a family of Quakers, Lucretia Mott became a minister of the faith in 1821. Her experience as a teacher in a Quaker school, where she received half the... Read more
Lucy Stone
b. 1818, West Brookfield, Massachusetts; d. 1893, BostonLucy Stone, mother of well-known suffragist Alice Stone Blackwell, was the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree (1847) and the first in the United States to... Read more
Frances Wright
b. 1795, Dundee, Scotland; d. 1852, CincinnatiAfter converting to Owenism—a utopian socialist philosophy developed and promoted by Robert Owen—Fanny Wright founded a socialist community in 1825 on 2,000 acres of woodland near Memphis, Tennessee. Calling her... Read more
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