who was elizabeth blackwell?''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Blackwell family members include Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in America to receive a medical degree; her sister Emily, also a physician; their brother Henry, a noted abolitionist and womenâs suffrage activist; his wife, Lucy Stone, the famous womenâs suffrage leader; their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, active in both suffrage and temperance; and Antoinette Brown Blackwell (sister-in-law to Elizabeth, Emily, and Henry), a reformer and the first woman in the United States to ...