Mary Edwards Walker

Date: November 26, 1832 to February 21, 1919
Location: Oswego, New York

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Mary Edwards Walker was the first women to win the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Civil War. She was an early enthusiast for Women's Rights. Mary graduated from medical school at the age of 21. In the year 1856 she married a physician, Albert Miller. Together they setup a medical practice, but the public wasn't ready for a women physician, they got divorced 13 years later. She went to Washington and tried to join the Union Army, she got denied so she served as an assistant surgeon.

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She died in the year 1919; one year after the passage of the 19th amendment which had to do with women rights.

"You are not our protectors... If you were who would there be to protect us from?"
This quote was from Mary Edwards Walker, what she meant by this quote was that there was no protectors for anyone because if there was any then who would be the one that they would have to prtect themselves from.

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