County's trailblazing female physicians

It was a joyous day in 1870 for three young Quaker women from Cayuga County. Amanda Sanford, Eliza Marie Mosher and Anna Hutchinson Searing, who were interning at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, danced around the room upon the news that the University of Michigan Medical School was going to admit women into its program. The three women had come to this point in their careers by various routes but each knew that they needed the much coveted M.D. degree. Up to this time there was no accredited co-ed medical state school in the country. They each eagerly applied to the new program. All three were accepted.