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Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England on February 3, 1821. Elizabeth moved with her family to the United States when she was eleven years old.
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Since she wanted to be a doctor, she applied to many medical colleges but was not accepted because she was female. She was finally accepted to Geneva Medical College in New York. The administration jokingly accepted her. When they found out that she was serious about studying medicine, they allowed her (after much persuasion on her part) to stay. She graduated at age twenty-eight in January of 1849, at the top of her class. She was the first female to ever graduate from medical school and became the first woman medical doctor. |
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Although she would never marry because she thought having a family would get in the way of her work, in 1854 she adopted her first and only child, Katherine Bary. |
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In November of 1868, Elizabeth Blackwell, along with her sister Emily Blackwell, opened the London School of Medicine for Women. She took the position of “Chair of Hygiene” on the board. In 1875 she was appointed professor of gynecology at the London School of Medicine for Children. She died on May 31, 1910, in Sussex, England. |
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"For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women."
~ Elizabeth Blackwell
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