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Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa (Brown), 1825–1921, American Unitarian minister, b. Henrietta, N.Y., grad. Oberlin College, 1847, and Oberlin Theological Seminary, 1850. One of the first women to receive a college education in the United States, she was ordained a Congregational minister in 1853, thus becoming the first ordained woman minister in the country. She later became a Unitarian. She was an active feminist, an abolitionist, and a temperance advocate. She was the sister-in-law of Henry B. Blackwell Blackwell, Henry Brown, 1825–1909, American reformer, b. Bristol, England; brother of Elizabeth Blackwell . He was an abolitionist and later, with his wife, Lucy Stone , a worker for woman suffrage.
..... Click the link for more information. and Elizabeth Blackwell Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821–1910, American physician, b. England; sister of Henry Brown Blackwell . She was the first woman in the United States to receive a medical degree, which was granted (1849) to her by Geneva Medical College (then part of Geneva College,
..... Click the link for more information. . Her books include The Sexes throughout Nature (1875) and The Making of the Universe (1914).