Dr Martha J. Flanders

  General Notes:

1850 Concord, NH census, a 58 yr old Martha Flanders and her 27 yr old dtr, Martha J, are living next door to (brother) James Straw [53], his son Gilbert [20] and James' wife, Elisabeth [age 45].
The other dtr, Martha J Flanders is listed as a 'Medical Student' in the 1860 census

1880 Census Place Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts
Martha J. FLANDERS
Birth Year <1823>
Birthplace NH Age 57
Occupation Physician Marital Status S <Single> Race W <White>
Head of Household Frank E. FLINT Relation Other
Father's Birthplace NH
Mother's Birthplace NH

New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State ...
edited by Henry Harrison Metcalf
Compiled by Henry Harrison Metcalf
Published by The New Hampshire Publishing Co., 1895
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Jul 5, 2007
249 pages
"...She began the study of medicine with the late Dr, Alpheus Morrill of Concord one of the first physicians to perceive that "woman needed the profession and the profession needed woman". She gained her diploma at the New England Female College now merged into Boston University School of Medicine. She practiced in Concord in connection with Dr. Morrill from 1861-1863 and both women and men of her native state gave her kindly courage and support. She was the first woman physician in Concord. She finally located in Lynn, MA where she has ever since resided. No people could have been more kind and loyal than have been her patrons in that Quaker city of radical reformers. She has had the pleasure of seeing the barriers against women thrown down by medical societies being herself a member of county, state and national societies; also for several years lecturer in a co-educational medical school."
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