For this essay I will be doing a biography over Elizabeth Blackwell. Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February 3, 1821, in Bristol, England. She came from a big family. There were 9 children. There were five girls and four boys. Anna Blackwell, Marian Blackwell, Elizabeth Blackwell, Samuel Charles Blackwell, Henry Brown Blackwell, Emily Blackwell, Sarah Ellen Blackwell, John Howard Blackwell, and George Washington Blackwell where all the children of Samuel and Hannah Blackwell. When she was little her family moved to the United States. They first lived in New York then they later moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Elizabeth’s father, Samuel Blackwell, became an abolitionist when they moved to the America’s. When her father died Elizabeth, her sisters,
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Before she had arrived at Geneva the men were boyish and usually made smart remarks back at the teacher during lectures. However when Elizabeth arrived they behaved like gentlemen and treated her nicely. She was once asked to skip a class because it was to ‘unrefined’. However her professor was shocked from her response. Between her terms she went home to Philadelphia and stayed with Dr. William Elder. When she finally convinced him she was on an internship, if you will, at the Blockley Almshouse Hospital. On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell, 28, graduated from Geneva Medical School in New York. When Blackwell went to get her diploma from Charles Lee, the dean of the college, he stood up and took a bow to her. She had just become the first female doctor to graduate from an American college. Blackwell got her degree as a physician. But before this she was going to be a surgeon, but due to an accident she couldn’t. When she went to Europe to finish studies she was treating a child, with a bacterial infection in his eye, she accidentally sprayed the solution to fix his infection in her left eye and lost sight in this eye which prevented her from becoming a
Before she had arrived at Geneva the men were boyish and usually made smart remarks back at the teacher during lectures. However when Elizabeth arrived they behaved like gentlemen and treated her nicely. She was once asked to skip a class because it was to ‘unrefined’. However her professor was shocked from her response. Between her terms she went home to Philadelphia and stayed with Dr. William Elder. When she finally convinced him she was on an internship, if you will, at the Blockley Almshouse Hospital. On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell, 28, graduated from Geneva Medical School in New York. When Blackwell went to get her diploma from Charles Lee, the dean of the college, he stood up and took a bow to her. She had just become the first female doctor to graduate from an American college. Blackwell got her degree as a physician. But before this she was going to be a surgeon, but due to an accident she couldn’t. When she went to Europe to finish studies she was treating a child, with a bacterial infection in his eye, she accidentally sprayed the solution to fix his infection in her left eye and lost sight in this eye which prevented her from becoming a