Blackwell, Elizabeth, a lady doctor, born in Bristol, and the first to hold a medical diploma in the United States; graduated in 1849; was admitted into the Maternity Hospital in Paris, and to St. Bartholomew's in London, and has since distinguished herself as a social reformer; (b. 1821).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Blackwell, Alexander * Blackwood, Sir Henry