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|birth_date =[[March 14]], [[1833]]
|birth_place =[[Constable, New York]]
|death_date =[[October 3]], [[1910]]
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'''Lucy Hobbs Taylor''' ([[March 14]], [[1833]] - [[October 3]], [[1910]]) was the first [[United States|American]] female [[dentist]].
==Early life==
Lucy Hobbs was born on [[March 14]], [[1833]] in [[Constable, New York]]. She entered the working world by [[teaching]] school for ten years in [[Michigan]]. In [[1859]], she moved to [[Cincinnati]], intending to become a dentist. When she was refused admission to [[dental school]], she began a private program of study with a professor from the [[Ohio College of Dental Surgery]].<ref name= "LHT"> [http://mywebpages.comcast.net/thorsdag/LucyHobbsTaylor.html "Lucy Hobbs Taylor, First Female Dentist" ] Accessed 25 May 2006. </ref>
==Dental career==
After studying dentistry, Lucy Hobbs started her own practice in Cincinnati in [[1861]]. She soon moved to [[Bellevue, Iowa|Bellevue]] and then [[McGregor, Iowa]], where she spent three years. In 1865, she finally gained all professional recognition when she was allowed to join the [[Iowa State Dental Society]]. That November, she entered the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, where she soon earned her doctorate in dentistry,<ref name = "LHT" /> becoming the first woman in the [[US]] to do so.<ref> [http://www.kshs.org/people/taylor_lucy.htm "Lucy Hobbs Taylor"] Accessed 25 May 2006. </ref>
Hobbs next moved to Chicago where she met James M. Taylor whom she married in April [[1867]], becoming Lucy Taylor. Taylor then convinced her husband to also enter dentistry. The two then moved to [[Lawrence, Kansas]], where they practiced jointly until James Taylor died in [[1886]]. After her husband's death, Lucy Taylor ceased to be an active dentist, but became more active in politics, campaigning for greater women's rights, until her own death on [[October 3]], [[1910]].<ref name="LHT" />
==Legacy==
By 1900, almost one thousand women had followed Lucy Taylor into dentistry, an increase many attribute largely to her accomplishments.<ref name = "NY"> [http://www.senate.state.ny.us/sws/wod/st_taylor.html "Lucy Hobbs Taylor"]. ''Celebrating Women's History Month''. Accessed 25 May 2006. </ref> In [[1983]], the [[American Association of Women Dentists]] honored Taylor by establishing the Lucy Hobbs Taylor Award, which it now presents annually to AAWD members in recognition of professional excellence and achievements in advancing the role of women in dentistry.
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|year=[[2007]]
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|title=Surfing for history: an annotated bibliography of select websites/pages on the history of dentistry
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|year=[[2000]]
|month=May
|title=Women's role in dentistry celebrated
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|last=Giangrego
|first=Elizabeth
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|title=Looking back. Lucy Hobbs Taylor
|journal=[[CDS review]]
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*{{cite journal
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|last=Dees
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|year=[[2001]]
|month=Nov
|title=Before we were created equally: the story of Lucy Hobbs Taylor, DDS
|journal=[[Journal of the history of dentistry]]
|volume=49
|issue=3
|pages=105-10
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*{{cite journal
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|last=Albert
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|year=[[1999]]
|month=Jan
|title=It takes determination to be a dentist
|journal=[[The New York state dental journal]]
|volume=65
|issue=1
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|title=A look at women's contributions to dentistry
|journal=[[Journal (Indiana Dental Association)]]
|volume=72
|issue=6
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*{{cite journal
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|year=[[1993]]
|month=Oct
|title=Lucy paved the way
|journal=[[The New York state dental journal]]
|volume=59
|issue=8
|pages=72
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|year=[[1988]]
|month=Sep
|title=Lucy Hobbs Taylor: the mixed blessing of being the first
|journal=[[Journal of the American Dental Association (1939)]]
|volume=117
|issue=3
|pages=443
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|last=Hewitt
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|year=[[1988]]
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|title=Dentistry's first lady: Lucy Hobbs Taylor
|journal=[[The Ohio dental journal]]
|volume=62
|issue=4
|pages=28-31
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|year=[[1981]]
|month=Oct
|title=Dr. Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first woman dentist
|journal=[[CAL [magazine] Certified Akers Laboratories]]
|volume=45
|issue=4
|pages=13-5, 18
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|last=Walker
|first=J C
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|year=[[1976]]
|month=Apr
|title=Lucy had courage
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|volume=39
|issue=10
|pages=29-30
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|last=EDWARDS
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|title=The first woman dentist Lucy Hobbs Taylor, D.D.S. (1833-1910)
|journal=[[Bulletin of the history of medicine]]
|volume=25
|issue=3
|pages=277-83
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==External links==
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6746 Find-A-Grave entry]
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[[Category:1833 births]]
[[Category:1910 deaths]]
[[Category:American dentists]]
[[Category:Women dentists]]