Dr Marion Corleto Sabia
In 1933, was one of two women who graduated from Tufts Medical School. As a general practitioner and obstetrician, she delivered thousands of East Boston babies.
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Mary Whitmarsh
Mary Whitmarsh (1853-1943) was a pioneering pharmacist who owned and operated a drug store in Boston for over 20 years, earning acclaim as a chemist and druggist.
Mary E P Davis
Co-founded the American Journal of Nursing and the American Nurses Association
Mehitable Sunderland
Mehitable Sunderland (1807-1901) is recognized as the first physician in Boston’s Hyde Park.
Minna Hall
In 1896, co-founded the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Ella F Boyd
A teacher, an amateur geologist, an officer in the Boston Society of Natural History and the Agassiz Association, and a member of the Hyde Park school board for fifteen years.
Dr Anna Quincy Churchill
Anna Quincy Churchill (1884-1971) was a physician who served on the faculty of Tufts University School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine from 1918 to 1954.
Armeda Gibbs
Gibbs was an abolitionist who helped escaped slaves. During the Civil War, she became the first female nurse for the Union.
Dr Lucy Anne Kirk
Successful homoeopathic physician of Boston
Vera Huckel
Vera Huckel started work at the NACA in 1939.At the time, very few women worked as computers. By 1945 she was a section head in charge of up to 17 women, having worked as mathematician, aerospace engineer, and supervisory mathematician.