FORT WAYNE’S WOMEN MEDICAL PIONEERS FEATURED
Local historian Peggy Seigel will be the featured speaker Sunday, May 2 for The History Center’s Mather Lecture Series. The free event begins at 2 p.m. at the center, located at 302 East Berry Street, Fort Wayne.
Seigel has long studied Fort Wayne women health care providers from the Civil War through the 1960s. In spite of obstacles these trailblazers faced because of their gender and their race, these women created unique niches as nurses and physicians.
Civil War nurse Eliza George and physician and toxicologist Dr. Alice Hamilton are well known. Other women worked quietly for decades in Fort Wayne, caring for their patients and for the health needs of their city.
Their combined stories add to our understanding of how women have always served as health care providers and help us understand and appreciate how women have forged new opportunities for those who would follow.
In 1993, while serving on the board of directors at the History Center, the Rev. George R. Mather proposed a series of free Sunday afternoon lectures on topics that influenced Fort Wayne and Allen County history. This lecture series has been renamed in his memory. All lectures in this series are free to the public. The George R. Mather Lecture Series is made possible with support from the Dunsire Family Foundation.
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