Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell was a Britishborn physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register. She was the first woman to graduate from medical school, a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine in the United States, and a social and moral reformer in both the United States and in the United Kingdom. Her sister Emily was the third woman in the US to get a medical degree.
Elizabeth was born in a house on Dicksons Street in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, to Samuel Blackwell, a sugar refiner, and his wife Hannah Blackwell. She had two older siblings, Anna and Marian, and would eventually have six younger siblings Samuel , Henry , Emily , Sarah, John and George. Four maiden aunts, Barbara, Ann, Lucy and Mary, also lived with the Blackwells during Blackwells childhood. Blackwells earliest memories were of her time living at a house onWilson Street, off Portland Square, Bristol.
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