Who is rebecca crumpler

Thank you, Lee! Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born February 8, She practiced medicine out of her home at 20 Garden Street, not Joy St.

Check the city of Boston directories of and Her husband Arthur Crumpler was not a doctor, he was a blacksmith and then a porter, working at Tremont St. The couple had a daughter, Lizzie Sinclair Crumpler, born in December There is a citation from Ancestry. Some people assumed Dr. Thank you for citing the additional source though!

This Article gave me a lot of insight in Rebecca Lee Crumplers life. Anthony Neal has done the most extensive research on the couple, and I believe what he has discovered is as accurate as we can get: Arthur was a blacksmith before they moved to Boston.

He became a porter when they first settled in, and then he must have taken up the jewelry trade later. How shameful that the generations lose their quality of what is historically pertinent while preparing in school for their futures! This should be known by everyone in the United States. Because photography was in its infancy, the only early pictures of the school I have seen are sketches of the buildings. There is a photo floating on the Internet that may be Rebecca Lee Crumpler, but right now I have no verification so I have not posted it.

Thank you for posting! Pingback: Resources Josephs Portfolio. Thank you! I would love to see a copy of the reference given by Mr. Neal as to the location of her practice being at 20 Garden Street in the Beacon Hill area of Boston and wonder about the more oft-reported location of Joy Street also in Beacon Hill.

Could both have been correct at different points in time, I wonder? Thank you so much for your information. In the last week, I have had one person contact me with some additional information about Arthur as well as Rebecca.

I believe Tony Neal checked City Directories, but I will try to trace his path and verify the information he provided.

I did not know that the New England Female Medical College was homeopathic but that means I need to re-answer one of the people who posted earlier. I truly appreciate your interest and added material. I will email you when we have puzzled through this profile again and have verified all that we have thus far. I've developed a standard response that I tweak accordingly each time I receive a request to use this image:. After my barrage of caveats, it is always interesting to see who comes back to say that they want the image anyway.

For some users and some uses, the risk and uncertainty is not a problem. For other users, they decide to not pursue the matter any further -- although I always wonder if it because the copyright risk, because it may be a "generic" image, or a combination of these issues.

What will happen with search results because we posted this image here? By the end of , will people start seeing this when they search for Rebecca Lee Crumpler, branded with my question about the veracity of the image? What will be the effect of that? What I'm really hoping is that someone will come forward to refute or verify my assumption that this is not Dr. Brandeis University, Herwick, Edgar B. Pfatteicher, Sarah K. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, Explore This Park.

Front page of Dr. Crumpler's "A Book of Medical Discourses. Public domain, courtesy U. Place of Birth:. Date of Birth:. Place of Death:. Date of Death:.