Alice Woodby McKane
Alice Woodby McKane (1865–1948) was the first woman to work as a doctor in Savannah, Georgia.[1]
Childhood and education
McKane was born in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania. Her parents died before she reached the age of seven and she lost her vision for three years.[2]
Alice graduated from the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia in 1889.[2] In 1892, she graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania with a medical degree.[3]
Career
Alice moved to Augusta, Georgia where she taught at the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute, now the Lucy Craft Laney High School.[2] She met her husband, Cornelius McKane, and moved with him to his physician's practice in Savannah.[2] In 1893, the couple opened the McKane Training School for Nurses, a school for black nurses and the first one of its kind in Southeast Georgia.[2]
Alice also wrote and published Clover Leaves, a poetry book, in 1914.[4]
