Dr. Caroline Holman Skinner, (1858-1948) a circa 1897 graduate of the old Homeopathic College of Missouri, is recorded to be among the first three women doctors to practice medicine in ...

This is an opinion column. A chair was just a chair — until Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin put a light and a bell on one. Benjamin was a schoolteacher, composer and inventor, born in 1861 in Charleston, ...