Women / Persons ~ P12494
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
Gender: Female
Life Dates: 26 November 1832 - 21 February 1919
Types:
- Abolitionist
- Activist
- Activist, Women's Rights
- American (US)
- Cross dresser, male impersonator
- divorced or separated
- Medicine (doctor)
- Military
- Prisoner or captive
- Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader
- Suffragette
- Temperance worker
- Writer, Nonfiction
Note: served as field surgeon during the Civil War; held as prisoner of war by the Confederates; first and only woman to receive the Medal of Honor; supported abolition and prohibition; feminist and nonconformist (retained maiden name in marriage)