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Mary Carson
Breckinridge (Leslie, 1881-1965)
Breckinridge started the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925, to
provide maternal and infant care in southeastern Kentucky.
F.N.S. later expanded into 8 outpost clinics and a hospital
in Hyden.
Visit the Frontier
School of Midwifery and Family Nursing and view the stamp
commemorating Mary Breckinridge.
Mary
Britton (Fayette, 1855-1925)
The
first African American woman to practice medicine in Lexington,
Britton provided medical care from her home in Lexington between the
years of 1904-1923. She
was also an educator and on the board of the Colored Orphans Home.
Dr.
Louise Caudill (Rowan,
1912-1998)
One of the
most beloved family physicians in Morehead for over 50 years.
She spearheaded the founding of St. Claire Hospital.
Jane
Todd Crawford (Green,
1763-1842)
In 1809,
Crawford was the first person to have abdominal surgery successfully
performed on her without anesthesia.
The 60-mile route that she took from her home to her
doctor’s is now named the Jane Todd Crawford Trail in her honor.
Louise Frances Gilman
Hutchins, M.D. (Madison, 1911-1996)
Berea’s only pediatrician between
1939-1967, she also worked with the Mountain Maternal Health League
at a time when few physicians in the U.S. were concerned about
women’s health issues.
Grace
Marilyn
James, M.D. (Jefferson,
1923-1989)
A
Louisville pediatrician who became the first African American woman
to obtain membership in the Jefferson County Medical Society and to
teach at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.
Dr. Grace James’ papers can be found at the
Archives and Records Center, University of Louisville, Women's
Manuscript Collections Project.
Lucy
Dupey Montz, D.M.D. (Gallatin,
1842-1922)
The first
woman dentist in Kentucky.
Linda
Neville (Knott,
1873-1961)
Fought to
bring treatment for the disease trachoma to remote areas of
Kentucky. Due to her
efforts this disease, which often causes blindness, was virtually
eradicated from the area in 1952.
Ora
Framer Porter (Warren,
1880-1970)
Born in
Bowling Green she became their first registered nurse.
She graduated from Tuskegee Institute School of Nursing in
1904.
Sarah Richardson, M.D. (Hart, 1870-1941)
In
the early 1900s Richardson successfully removed a cancerous breast
from a woman patient, the first such surgery of its kind.
She remained in practice in Hart County for 41 years.
Winnie
A. Scott (Franklin,
1870-1920)
In
1915, Winnie A. Scott Hospital opened in Frankfort, the only medical
facility serving African Americans until King's Daughters Hospital
opened in 1959. It was
named for Scott, a local school teacher instrumental in establishing
the hospital.
Lillian
H. South, M.D. (Whitley,
1879-1966)
A physician
in Williamsburg who spent forty years as the bacteriologist of the
Kentucky State Board of Health. She frequently lectured and wrote about public health.
Louise
Southgate, M.D.
(Kenton,
1857-1941)
Southgate was a physician as well as a suffragist.
She began her practice in Covington in 1894.
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