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Amanda Hickey
Amanda Sanford Hickey (28 August 183817 October 1894) was an American surgeon, obstetrician, and physician who practiced medicine in Auburn, New York. She was the first woman to earn a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Michigan Medical School. Early life and education Amanda Sanford Hickey was born into a Quakers, Quaker family on 28 August 1838 in Rhode Island. After the death of her father, she moved with her mother to Scipio, New York, Scipioville in Cayuga County, New York, and attended the Oakwood Friends School, Friends' Academy in Union Springs, New York. After graduating from the Friends' Academy, Hickey spent a year studying Greek language, Greek and earning money from the cultivation of a vegetable garden. She then began working as a teacher at the Hawland School in Union Springs, while studying medicine on her own. In 1868 or 1869, Hickey enrolled in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she studied for one year. She interned at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the List of U.S. states by area, smallest U.S. state by area and the List of states and territories of the United States by population, seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents 2020 United States census, as of 2020, but it is the List of U.S. states by population density, second-most densely populated after New Jersey. It takes its name from Aquidneck Island, the eponymous island, though most of its land area is on the mainland. Rhode Island borders Connecticut to the west; Massachusetts to the north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to the south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound. It also shares a small maritime border with New York (state), New York. Providence, Rhode Island, Providence is its capital and most populous city. Native Americans lived around Narragansett Bay for thousands of years before English settler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
