Harriot Kezia Hunt
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Harriot Kezia Hunt (November 9, 1805 - January 2, 1875) was an early female physican.
Hunt was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1805, the daughter of Jacob Hunt and Kezia Wentworth Hunt. She and her sister, Sarah Hunt, studied medicine under Elizabeth Mott and Richard Dixon Mott. She was the first woman to apply to Harvard Medical School, but was denied. She worked practicing and as an advocate for the right for women to learn and practice medicine.
She is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, near Boston. Her grave marker includes a statue of the Greek goddess of health, Hygeia, carved by the African American sculptor, Edmonia Lewis.
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