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Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth's parents, Samuel and Hannah Blackwell, were very rich. Her father was a sugar merchant. Education was important to her parents, and they felt that boys and girls should be equally educated. In that day and age, many people felt that only boys needed to be educated.
When Elizabeth was eleven years old, her father's business burned to the ground. Now this very rich family was nearly destitute. They decided, as many did at that time, that America was a great land of opportunity, so they moved to America.
Samuel Blackwell only knew the sugar business. In New York he wanted to start selling sugar, but he realized that the production of sugar at that time was mostly done through slave labor. He could not stand to make a living while taking advantage of those he thought should be free, but it was the only business he knew. The family eventually moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where Samuel would not be forced to use slave labor in the harvest of sugar. Elizabeth's father died shortly thereafter.
Elizabeth began teaching, but did not care for that job. She was doing it mainly to raise money to attend medical school. She boarded in the home of a doctor and spent much of her free time studying his library of medical books. She applied to many medical schools and was rejected each time because she was a woman. Finally she applied to Geneva Medical College in New York. The administration there asked the students to vote on whether or not she should be accepted. They all thought it was a practical joke, so they voted for her. In 1849, she graduated at the top of her class and became the first woman in the United States to earn a medical degree.
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