Kate Cumming
Kate Cumming is best known for her dedicated service to sick and wounded Confederate soldiers. She spent much of the latter half of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) as a nurse in hospitals throughout Georgia.
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Elizabeth O’Farrell
20th century Irish republican
Winifred Pink
1920s British car racer and mechanic
Letitia Munson
1800s Canadian herbalist, fortune-teller and midwife
Maria Mahoi
1800s Hawaiian-Canadian midwife
Maria Angwin
Canadian educator and physician
Anna Toews
Ukrainian-Canadian midwife
Captain Mary Therese Klinker
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Ella Stack
She was elected the first woman Mayor of Darwin in 1975 (the first woman to be elected Mayor of an Australian capital city)
Dr Minerva Margaret Greenaway
Turn of the century Canadian doctor