Mary Edwards Walker was the youngest of seven in an unconventional family that valued equal education for both genders. Her parents were free thinkers who were involved in the abolitionist ...

We have previously met Mary Edwards Walker briefly in another post ... It should be known that Ms. Walker was going to be something different simply by the family that she was born into. She was born ...

Mary Edwards Walker was born in 1832 in Oswego, New York. In 1855 she received her M.D. from Syracuse Medical College. She was the only female surgeon to serve in the Civil War and was captured by ...