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== Childhood and education == |
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McKane was born February 12, 1865 [[Bridgewater, Pennsylvania]]. Her parents died before she reached the age of seven and she lost her vision for three years.<ref name="First ladies">{{cite book|last=Howard-Oglesby|first=Pamela|title=Savannah's Black First Ladies: The Past, Present, and Future, Volume 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xo8VflhKStAC&pg=PA69&dq=%22Alice+Woodby+McKane%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pkTOUu6DBZWzsASBqYDwCw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Alice%20Woodby%20McKane%22&f=false|year=2010|publisher=Outskirts Press|location=Denver, CO|isbn=978-1-4327-3112-0}}</ref> |
McKane was born February 12, 1865 [[Bridgewater, Pennsylvania]]. Her parents, who were Charles and Elizabeth Fraiser Woodby,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://georgiahistory.com/education-outreach/historical-markers/hidden-histories/charity-hospital-and-training-school-for-nurses/|title=Charity Hospital and Training School for Nurses|work=Georgia Historical Society|access-date=2017-11-28|language=en-US}}</ref> died before she reached the age of seven and she lost her vision for three years.<ref name="First ladies">{{cite book|last=Howard-Oglesby|first=Pamela|title=Savannah's Black First Ladies: The Past, Present, and Future, Volume 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xo8VflhKStAC&pg=PA69&dq=%22Alice+Woodby+McKane%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pkTOUu6DBZWzsASBqYDwCw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Alice%20Woodby%20McKane%22&f=false|year=2010|publisher=Outskirts Press|location=Denver, CO|isbn=978-1-4327-3112-0}}</ref> |
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Alice attended to the public Schools and Hampton Institute in Virginia. As an undergraduate student of the [[Institute for Colored Youth]], which later became [[Cheyney University of Pennsylvania]], she was a secretary of the principal Fannie Coppin <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Elmore|first=Charles J.|date=2004|title=Black Medical Pioneers in Savannah, 1892-1909: Cornelius McKane and Alice Woodby McKane|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40584737|journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly|volume=88|issue=2|pages=179–196|doi=10.2307/40584737}}</ref>. She graduated from the [[Institute for Colored Youth]] in [[Philadelphia]]<ref name="First ladies" /> and entered to the [[Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania]] in 1889. In 1892, she graduated and received a medical degree with high honors.<ref name=Pioneers>{{cite journal|last=Elmore|first=Charles J.|title=Black Medical Pioneers in Savannah, 1892-1909: Cornelius McKane and Alice Woodby McKane|jstor=40584737|journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly|date=Summer 2004|volume=88|issue=2}}</ref> |
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== Career == |
== Career == |
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Revision as of 16:06, 28 November 2017
Alice Woodby McKane (1865–1948) was the first woman to work as a doctor in Savannah, Georgia.[1]
Childhood and education
McKane was born February 12, 1865 Bridgewater, Pennsylvania. Her parents, who were Charles and Elizabeth Fraiser Woodby,[2] died before she reached the age of seven and she lost her vision for three years.[3]
Alice attended to the public Schools and Hampton Institute in Virginia. As an undergraduate student of the Institute for Colored Youth, which later became Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, she was a secretary of the principal Fannie Coppin [4]. She graduated from the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia[3] and entered to the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1889. In 1892, she graduated and received a medical degree with high honors.[5]
Career
Alice moved to Augusta, Georgia where she taught at the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute, now the Lucy Craft Laney High School.[3] She met her husband, Cornelius McKane, and moved with him to his physician's practice in Savannah.[3] In 1893, the couple opened the McKane Training School for Nurses, a school for black nurses and the first one of its kind in Southeast Georgia. She died March 6, 1948.[6]
Alice also wrote and published Clover Leaves, a poetry book, in 1914.[7]
References
- ^ "McKane, Alice Woodby". Georgia Women of Achievement. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ^ "Charity Hospital and Training School for Nurses". Georgia Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
- ^ a b c d Howard-Oglesby, Pamela (2010). Savannah's Black First Ladies: The Past, Present, and Future, Volume 1. Denver, CO: Outskirts Press. ISBN 978-1-4327-3112-0.
- ^ Elmore, Charles J. (2004). "Black Medical Pioneers in Savannah, 1892-1909: Cornelius McKane and Alice Woodby McKane". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 88 (2): 179–196. doi:10.2307/40584737.
- ^ Elmore, Charles J. (Summer 2004). "Black Medical Pioneers in Savannah, 1892-1909: Cornelius McKane and Alice Woodby McKane". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 88 (2). JSTOR 40584737.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
First ladies .was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ McKane, Alice Woodby (1914). Clover Leaves. Boston, MA: Alice Woodby McKane.