Lucy Beaman Hobbs was born in Constable, New York back in 1833. When she was twelve she took a job as a seamstress to help support the family. She attended the Franklin Academy in New York. After graduation, she taught school in Michigan for ten years. In 1859, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where she applied for medical school at Eclectic Medical College. She was denied access due to her gender.
Not to be deterred she applied to the Ohio College of Dental Surgery again being denied acceptance due to her gender. So, she studied under professor, Dr. Jonathan Taft and opened up her practice to be a dentist without having to obtain a diploma, she practiced in Cincinnati in 1861. In 1865, she finally gained all professional recognition, being allowed to join the Iowa State Dental Society. In that same year, she applied again with the Ohio College of Dental Surgery graduating in 1866.
What you may not know about Lucy Hobbs Taylor is that she was the first woman to graduate from a dental school. She died in Lawrence, Kansas in 1910, she was 77.
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