Dr.
Edith
B
Blackwell
M.D.
Born in Milburn, New Jersey
Ancestors 
Daughter of Samuel Charles Blackwell
and Antoinette Louisa (Brown) Blackwell
Sister of
Florence B. Blackwell, Grace B Blackwell, Agnes (Blackwell) Jones and Ethel (Blackwell) Robinson
Died
at about age 45
in Chilmark,,Massachusetts
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Biography
Edith's aunt (her father's older sister) was Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman physician in the US. Edith became a doctor as well and died of typhoid fever at the age of 44, on October 4, 1906.
Sources
"United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MN8B-G7C : accessed 24 Aug 2014), Edith B Blackwell in household of Samuel C Blackwell, Somerville, Somerset, New Jersey, United States; citing sheet 320C, NARA microfilm publication T9.
"Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NW14-X5K : accessed 24 Aug 2014), Edith B Blackwell, 04 Oct 1906; citing Chilmark,,Massachusetts, 462, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2258135.
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