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Notable Cayuga County Women Pioneers in Education and Medicine
The text highlights Amanda Sanford Hickey as the first U S woman to earn a medical degree. It details Eliza Mosher-Mosher as Michigan Medical School’s first woman dean, Isabel Howland and Mameo alterner as Cayuga County Equality Club leaders, and Emily Howland as a key suffrage and education benefactor who helped found the Sherwood Select School and funded women’s medical schooling. It invites exploration of local museums for more on these figures.
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Sherwood Select School
Eliza Mosher — Mosher
Hickey
University of Michigan Medical School
Mosher
Michigan
Mameo Alterner
Loodhe
Cayuga County
Equality Club
Bers
Cayuga County Equality Club
Howland
Howland Stone Store
Sherwood
Oid Glen Micne
Uie Cayega Museum
Martha Wright
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
National Women’s History Project
Nwhp.org
Amanda Sanford Hickey
U.S