She also set up a clinic with overnight beds in her office. Sarah was a “horse and buggy” doctor, traveling around the area making house calls and delivering babies. She got her medical training in Germany when schools in the United States barred her from entering because of her gender. Sarah Lucretia Robb became the first female physician in Alachua County. John Hawks named the settlement Port Orange. They brought with them soldiers and freed slaves and established a large colony of freed slaves in an area just south of what is now Daytona Beach. When she and her husband, John, moved to Florida after the Civil War she became the first female doctor in the State of Florida. Esther Hill Hawks received her medical degree in 1857 and became one of the first female physicians in the United States.
Two of the women excelled in the field of medicine. In the early 1600’s, many years before Pocahontas saved Smith’s life, Ulele saved the life of a Spanish conquistador by the name of Juan Ortiz. One of the more interesting of these women was a Native American named Ulele who conceivably inspired Captain John Smith’s tale of Pocahontas.
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