Anna Manning Comfort, M.D.

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Anna Amelia Comfort (Manning), M.D.

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States
Death: January 11, 1931 (85) (Pneumonia)
Place of Burial: Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Alfred Curling Manning and Elizabeth Manning
Wife of George Fisk Comfort
Mother of Ralph Manning Comfort; Frederick Price Comfort and Arthur Sterling Comfort

Occupation: Physician
Managed by: Andrew Quinn Champion
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About Anna Manning Comfort, M.D.

Physician; born Trenton, N. J., Jan. 19, 1845; daughter of Alfred Curling and Elizabeth (Price) Manning; academic education in Boston, Mass.; was graduated from the first class of the N. Y. Medical College for Women in 1865; was the first woman medical graduate to practice in the State of Connecticut; later a lecturer in the college from which she was graduated, and specialist in gynecology in N. Y. City and Syracuse; author: Woman's Education and Woman's Health; also of many fugitive articles in prose and poetry in various medical and other periodicals; married Professor George F. Comfort, Jan. 19, 1871. Address, Syracuse, N. Y.

Note

The New York Medical College and Hospital for Women was founded by Anna's great-aunt Clemence S. Lozier.

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Sources

  • Who's Who in New York City and State. Ed. Lewis R. Hamersly. Revised ed. New York, 1905. 209. Web.
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Anna Manning Comfort, M.D.'s Timeline

1845
January 19, 1845
Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States
1872
1872
1874
1874
1876
May 7, 1876
1931
January 11, 1931
Age 85
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Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States