OTD Dr Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson joined the ancestors (Oct 17, 1864 - Apr 26, 1901). 1st female physician in Alabama when Booker T. Washington recruited her from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1891 to provide health care for Tuskegee Institute and the immediate area.
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