Martha Ripley

Martha George Ripley of Lowell, Vermont was an American physician, suffragist, professor of medicine, and founder of the Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She also served six years as president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association.

Martha George Rogers was born November 30, 1843, in Lowell, Vermont, the oldest of five children of Esther Ann and Francis Rogers, a stock farmer. The family moved to the Iowa frontier, where she attended high school . She was awarded a firstclass teachers certificate and taught elementary school for a time. In 1867 she married rancher William Warren Ripley, and shortly thereafter they moved back to his home state of Massachusetts, where he took up a job as manager of his uncles paper mill in Lawrence. The couple had three daughters, Abigail, Clara, and Edna May. Within a few years, William had bought his own mill and moved the family to Middleton.

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