Cassandra Pickett Durham
Cassandra Pickett Durham | |
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Born | Cassandra Pickett May 21, 1824 |
Died | October 18, 1885 | (aged 61)
Other names | Cassandra Pickett Windsor |
Education | Reform Medical College |
Medical career | |
Profession | Physician |
Field | Eclectic medicine |
Cassandra Pickett Windsor Durham (May 21, 1824 – October 18, 1885) was an American physician and the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Biography
Durham was born Cassandra Pickett in 1824 to John Jeptha Pickett Sr. and Nancy Boulware in Fairfield County, South Carolina. She grew up in Stewart County, Georgia and married Jonathan Windsor in 1845. After Windsor's death six years later, she married John Pryor Durham, a physician, in 1854. Cassandra Durham would often accompany her second husband when he tended to patients, and together they had four children.[1] After her husband died in 1869, she sent her children to live with relatives and moved to Macon, Georgia to attend its Reform Medical College.[2]
After graduating from the Reform Medical College, Durham became the first woman in the state of Georgia to earn a degree in medicine.
Durham died suddenly in 1885 when she developed acute apoplexy while treating a patient.[1]
Legacy
After Durham's death, four successive generations of her family continued the practice of medicine.[1] She was inducted into the list of Georgia Women of Achievement in 1993.[2]
References
- ^ OCLC 67773716.
- ^ a b "Durham, Cassandra Pickett". Georgia Women of Achievement. March 1993. Archived from the original on August 27, 2020. Retrieved August 27, 2020.