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Josie English Wells
1876–1921
United States
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Biography
Josie English Wells (1876-20 March 1921) was an African American physician and one of three women to graduate from Meharry Medical College in 1904. She was the first female faculty member at Meharry, and the first woman of any race to open a private practice in Nashville, Tennessee.
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