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56 High Street Ellen Augusta Brown Ranlett (d. 1895) lived here. She developed the “For To-Day” column in the Boston Transcript and was a warm and welcoming hostess. The motto over her fireplace said, “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” |
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CT10: 59 High Street Home of Mary Colbert. See Stop 2. |
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73 High Street Mass. General Hospital Clinic Two important female doctors lived and worked in Charlestown. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (b. 1833) was the first African-American female physician. She worked as a nurse when she moved to Charlestown in 1852. She received a Doctress of Medicine from the New England Female Medical College in 1864. After the Civil War, she practiced in Richmond, Virginia. Later she returned to Boston with her husband, Dr. Arthur Crumpler, and lived on Beacon Hill. She published A Book of Medical Discourses in Two Parts. Harriot Kezia Hunt (1805-1875) is known as the first woman to practice medicine in the United States. Hunt gave informal talks and led discussions at a Ladies’ Physiological Society she founded in Charlestown in 1843. Although never admitted to a medical school, Hunt practiced medicine all her life, thus paving the way for women in medicine. She was awarded an honorary degree by Female Medical College of Philadelphia in 1853. |
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