Lucy Hobbs Taylor
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Lucy Hobbs Taylor (March 14, 1833 – October 3, 1910) was a school teacher and a dentist known for being the first American woman to graduate from dental school (Ohio College of Dental Surgery, 1866).
She was initially refused admission to the Cleveland, Ohio Eclectic Medical College due to her gender.
Due to this, a professor in the college agreed to teach her and encouraged her to practice dentistry.
She applied to a dental school again, this time at the Ohio College of Dentistry.
Sadly, she was unable to consent to admittance due to her gender once more.
From there, a college graduate agreed to tutor her, allowing her to continue her education in dentistry.
Rather than attempting to enroll in a college once more, she decided to start her own practice in 1861.
Lucy Hobbs Taylor relocated to Iowa and opened a dentistry practice after a year.
This allowed her to graduate without a diploma and become a member of the Iowa State Dental Society, which made her eligible.
She was also delegated to the American Dental Association Convention, only three years after moving to Iowa, because she was a member of this organization.
The Ohio College of Dentistry decided to eliminate the policy prohibiting women from attending the school in the same year (1865).
Taylor was instantly accepted as a senior student as a result of her dental education that she had gained over the years.
She graduated in 1866, becoming the first woman to graduate from a dental college and then on to earn a doctorate in dentistry.
Early life
Lucy Beaman Hobbs was born in Constable, New York, on March 14, 1833. She was the seventh child out of ten total. When she was 12 years old, she began working as a seamstress to help her siblings. Hobbs later attended school and later graduated from Franklin Academy in New York and began teaching for ten years in Michigan. She migrated to Cincinnati and applied to medical school at Eclectic Medical College in 1859. Hobbs was refused admission because of her gender, but she was able to study privately under the guidance of a Eclectic teacher. Hobbs then enrolled in the Ohio College of Dentistry, which was followed by a letter from him. She began a private program of study with a professor, Dr. Jonathan Taft of the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, as she was refused admission to dental school. Hobbs applied for the dentistry degree once more, but was turned down again. As a result, she started her own business, allowing her to practice dentistry without having to obtain a diploma.
Dental career
In 1861, she started her own practice in Cincinnati after studying dentistry. She landed in Bellevue and then McGregor, Iowa, where she spent three years. She finally gained professional recognition and was invited to attend the Iowa State Dental Society in 1865, and was sent as a delegate to the American Dental Association convention in Chicago. She began attending the Ohio College of Dental Surgery as a freshman in November 1866, becoming the first woman in the world to graduate from a dental college and receive a doctorate in dentistry. "People were surprised when they learned that a teenage girl had so far forgotten her femininity as to want to study dentistry," she continued.
Hobbs then moved to Chicago, where she met James M. Taylor, who was married in April 1867. Taylor then persuaded her husband that she should also go to dentistry. The two couples then migrated to Lawrence, Kansas, where they had a large and fruitful practice until he died in 1886. She stopped practicing dentistry after her husband's death but became more involved in politics, advocating for greater women's rights until her own death on October 3, 1910. Lucy Hobbs Taylor, a dentist, opened up brand new doors to many people in the future, particularly in the medical field. "Making it possible for women to be acknowledged in the dental profession on equal terms with men" was her goal, she said.