Consuelo Clark, MD: The first Black woman licensed to practice medicine in Ohio
Cincinnati native Consuelo Clark earned an MD in 1884 from the Boston University School of Medicine. She was the only Black student at the school Continue Reading
Tag: Women’s History
The Curious paths of the Blackwell sisters’ medicine back to Cincinnati: Ellen Kirk and May Howells
(See also Women Doctors in Cincinnati and their Connections to Walnut Hills.) We have seen that Elmira Howard, a member of the first class at Continue Reading
The Curious paths of the Blackwell sisters’ medicine back to Walnut Hills: Elmira Howard
(See also Women Doctors in Cincinnati and their Connections to Walnut Hills.) Sisters Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell grew up in Walnut Hills in the 1830s Continue Reading
Dr. Elmira Howard, Medicine, and a View from Across the Sea
(See also Women Doctors in Cincinnati and their Connections to Walnut Hills.) We have met Walnut Hills resident Dr. Elmira Howard as a Walnut Hills Continue Reading
The Walnut Hills Steam Laundry
We have seen that many Black women, and a few whites, worked as washerwomen in Walnut Hills from the 1870s through the early decades of Continue Reading
Washerwomen and the organization of their work
Walnut Hills had a long tradition of African American women taking in laundry. Calvin and Harriet Beecher Stowe engaged the services of an “Aunt Frankie” Continue Reading
Irene Kirke, Black O’Bryonville Woman in Business from the 1910s
Irene Kirke, an African American woman, was born in 1887 in what was then the small town of Milford, outside of Cincinnati. She attended public Continue Reading
Horace Sudduth and Women’s Institutions
We have explored Horace Sudduth’s support for the African American YMCA that opened on Ninth Street in 1916. This post will look at a series Continue Reading
Lincoln Avenue in 1870: What did women do all day?
We have been looking at the Census data from 1870 and 1880 to understand the people who lived on what became Lincoln Avenue in 1877. Continue Reading
Sadie Samuels: What Success Looked Like for a Black Woman in the early Twentieth Century
Sadie Samuels was born in 1892 in Cincinnati’s West End. In the 1900 census the household included the eight-year-old Sadie, an African-American girl; her grandfather Continue Reading