Mercy Ruggles Bisbe Jackson

Mercy Ruggles Bisbe Jackson (born Sept. 17, 1802, Hardwick, Mass., U.S.—died Dec. 13, 1877, Boston, Mass.) was an American physician and educator, a pioneer in the struggle for the admission of women to the practice of medicine. Mercy Ruggles received what was for the time a good education. In June 1823 she married the Reverend John Bisbe, with whom she moved to Hartford, Connecticut, and later to Portland, Maine. After his death in 1829, she...