DR. HARRIOT K. HUNT

Among the first, if not the first, to practise medicine in this country, was Dr. HARRIOT K. HUNT. Her autobiographical work called " Glances and Glimpses " is so complete a statement of her struggles, that the reader is advised to peruse it, and excuse the brevity of this notice. She was born Nov. 9, 1805 ; and her sister, SARAH AUGUSTA HUNT, who was also a physician, was born Dec. 25, 1808.

Dr. Harriot died at the age of sixty-three, Jan. 2, 1875, in Boston, where she had spent her useful life. Mrs. Lucy Stone says of her, " She acquired a medical education by private instruction from Dr. Nott, and commenced a practice nearly forty years ago, which became so successful and remunerative that she acquired an independent fortune. . . . As soon as she had property to be taxed she felt so keenly the essential injustice of taxation without representation, that every year; when she paid her tax, she sent with it to the city treasurer a protest, setting forth the principle that taxation and representation are inseparable, and protesting against the wrong done to all women who were compelled to pay taxes, and were yet denied a vote. She continued this practice more than a quarter of a century, till the end of her life. Her practical example of a successful business life, always maintained with a cheerful spirit, is a good legacy and lesson to all young women. She will be missed by many, but especially by those who sought her advice as a physician, and who were helped to health, as well by her cheerful spirit as by her medicine."

Source: Daughters of America or Women of the Century by Phebe A. Hanaford Published
by True and Company, Augusta, Maine, 1883.

Submitted by Deborah Crowell