Elizabeth Blackwell earns her Medical degree on January 23, 1849, becoming the first woman in the United States to do so. She graduated from Geneva Medical College in New York. and despite facing many rejections and social stigma, she persevered to pioneer women's education in medicine. She eventually opened the New York Infirmary for Women and Children.
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