Mary Edwards Walker

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (November, 1832 – February 21, 1919) was a versatile woman — a feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, spy, prisoner of war, surgeon and the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.

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Born in Oswego, New York, the daughter of Alvah and Vesta Walker, she believed the fashions of the day, which included such binding clothing as corsets, were not healthy and advocated looser fitting clothing.

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Walker taught school as a young woman to earn enough money to pay her way through Syracuse Medical College where she graduated as a doctor in 1855. She married a fellow medical school student, Albert Miller, and they set up a joint practice in Rome, New York. The practice did not flourish, as female doctors were generally not trusted or respected at that time.

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