
Louis A Cornish, African American MD
Louis A Cornish, African American MD Louis A. Cornish (1872-1940) earned his MD from the African American Howard Medical School in 1898. The son of Continue Reading
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Louis A Cornish, African American MD Louis A. Cornish (1872-1940) earned his MD from the African American Howard Medical School in 1898. The son of Continue Reading
Elmira Young Howard earned her MD at the New York Medical College for Women in 1870. She migrated to Cincinnati that year and opened a Continue Reading
Model Drug Store Walnut Hills Branch: what professional success looked like Model Drug Stores, the largest chain of Black-owned pharmacies in Cincinnati during the 1910s Continue Reading
Model Drug Stores In 1916, the Black-owned Model Drug Company began as a partnership between pharmacists Robert D. Russell and George R. Hicks, Jr., Russell’s Continue Reading
Drug stores in Black Walnut Hills: Walnut Hills Pharmacy, 1908-1924 The first Black-owned Drug Store in Walnut Hills – probably the first in Cincinnati – Continue Reading
The Water Works in Eden Park served as the testing site for one of the most important innovations in water treatment during the progressive era. Continue Reading
Proponents offered clean water as one of the early promises of the Reservoir at Eden Park. The huge artificial lake held a hundred million gallons Continue Reading
Dr. Dillard grew up in Walnut Hills in the 1940’s-50’s, attending Frederick Douglass School and Walnut Hills High School. He followed his father into medicine Continue Reading
Dr. Lucy Oxley, the first African American woman to earn an MD from the University of Cincinnati medical school (1935), ran her practice in Walnut Continue Reading
In 1883, three Episcopalian women determined to open a new hospital in Cincinnati to care for sick children. The idea originated with a Mrs. Robert Continue Reading