Jane Edwards
In 1860, she played a crucial role in readying Boston’s Charlestown Public Library for its opening by establishing a card catalog system for the initial collection of 1,200 books.
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Dr Christine Karen Cassel
Dr. Christine Cassel was the first woman chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine, the first woman president of the American College of Physicians and the first woman dean of Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.
Dr Deborah Powell
American medical doctor
Eliza Ball Hughes
1800s English-American artist and art teacher
Clementina Beach
Co-founder of Boston’s Saunders and Beach Academy, an elite school for girls
Cordelia A Payson
In 1859, she started the Fairmount and Hyde Park Lyceum and hosted literary evenings in her house.
Dr Dorothea Lyons
Dr. Dorothea Lyons was appointed headmaster of Boston’s Jeremiah E. Burke School in the late 1950s.
Dr Edith DeAngelis
Dr Edith “Edie” DeAngelis was the driving force behind the completion of the East Boston Women’s Trail.
Dr Christie Huddleston
Dr. Christie Huddleston was a founding member of the Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine.
Anna Maria Mead Chalmers
Anna Maria Mead Chalmers authored numerous children’s books in the 1830s, later wrote short works of fiction and devotion, and contributed to the Boston Home Journal, the New York Churchman, the New York Tribune, and the Southern Literary Messenger.