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Blackwell
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Black·well  (blckwl, -wl), Antoinette Louisa Brown 1825-1921.
American social reformer. The first formally appointed (1852) woman pastor in America, she advocated abolition, temperance, and women's rights.

Blackwell, Elizabeth 1821-1910.
British-born American physician who was the first woman to be awarded a medical doctorate in modern times (1849). She founded (1853) an infirmary for women and children in New York City that her sister Emily Blackwell (1826-1910), also a physician, directed (1869-1910) and built into an accredited medical school.


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He presided over the unconventional wedding of feminist Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell.
Jenny read about Stone and wrote a five-minute, first-person biography that includes the passage: ``When I married Henry Blackwell, I kept my maiden name, and I was the first woman in the nation to keep my name after marriage.
She insisted on a wedding contract before marrying her husband, Henry Blackwell.
 
 
 
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