Biography: Hawks, Esther Hill

Esther Hill Hawks

Biography: Hawks, Esther Hill

2016

Biography

South Carolina Encyclopedia provides a short biography (2016) of Esther Hill Hawks, a White teacher, physician, missionary, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate from New Hampshire, written by Kelly Obernuefemann. This biography offers an account of Hawks' life, which includes her marriage to John Milton Hawks, challenges in finding work as a physician in the Union Army, her work in hospitals and freedmen’s schools in the Southeast throughout the Civil War, and her return North to practice medicine in Massachusetts.

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