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Emeline Horton Cleveland

American physician
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Emeline Horton
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Sept. 22, 1829, Ashford, Conn., U.S.
Died:
Dec. 8, 1878, Philadelphia, Pa. (aged 49)
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Emeline Horton Cleveland (born Sept. 22, 1829, Ashford, Conn., U.S.—died Dec. 8, 1878, Philadelphia, Pa.) was an American physician and college professor, widely respected among her male colleagues and a strong force for professional opportunity and education for women in medicine. Emeline Horton grew up in Madison county, New York. She worked as a teacher until she could afford to enroll at Oberlin (Ohio) College, from which she graduated in 1853. She then entered the Female (later Woman’s) Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and took her M.D. degree in 1855. While working toward her medical degree she married the ...(100 of 307 words)

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