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Pauline Agassiz Shaw Corner of Thomas and Centre  Pauline
Agassiz Shaw (1841-1917) devoted her life to supporting education.
She opened the first kindergarten in 1877, and by 1883 was supporting
37 kindergartens. She founded day nurseries which became settlement houses,
including the North Bennet Street Industrial School. She also supported
the Woman's Journal, a weekly suffrage newspaper. She was married
to Quincy Adams Shaw, a wealthy copper mining investor, and had five children.
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JP13: Home of Judith Winsor Smith 11 Roanoke Street Judith Winsor Smith (1821-1921) was an active suffragist, abolitionist, and member of the New England Women's Club and the East Boston community where she lived for 65 years. Her home was known as "House Helpful." When she voted for the first time in 1920, she was dubbed "the oldest suffragist of them all." In her later years, she lived in Jamaica Plain with her daughter Zilpha Smith (1852-1926), a pioneer in the development of family social work in Boston. |
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JP14: Lucy Stone  Lucy
Stone (1818-1893) was a leader of the national women's rights movement.
She was an organizer of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, the first
Massachusetts woman to receive a college degree, the first married woman
to keep her own name, and the founder and editor of the Woman's Journal.
She was the first woman to be cremated in New England. Her daughter Alice
Stone Blackwell (1857-1958) was also a leader in the women's rights movement
and editor of the Woman's Journal for 25 years. |
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JP15: Home of Marie Zakrewska 5 Peter Parley Road Marie Zakrewska (1829-1902) came to America in 1853 hoping to be able to practice medicine. With the help of Elizabeth Blackwell, she went to Western Reserve Medical College. In 1862, finding that the male medical establishment would not let her practice, she founded her own hospital: The New England Hospital for Women and Children. The hospital hired only women physicians and served only women patients. The hospital opened a Nurses Training School in 1872, graduating America's first trained nurses. |
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