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Name |
Hill, Nancy Maria |
Born |
1833 |
Birthplace |
West Cambridge |
Father |
Hill, William III |
Mother |
Swan, Harriet |
Places of residence |
Grew up at 359 Pleasant Street, then West Cambridge, now part of Belmont. |
Notes |
Nurse in Civil War Union Army - then entered medical school at the University of Ann Arbor, Michigan, becoming one of the nation's first female physicians. After further training in Boston, she set up practicie in Dubuque, Iowa. Her four great-grandfathers were present at the Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill. |

