Historical Marker
1853-1925
Historical marker location:
Warsaw, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street (New York State Route 19) and East Court Street, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.)
Ella Hawley Crossett.
The first African-American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, studied at the New England Female Medical College in Boston, but she completed her clinical studies at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in Manhattan in 1864.