[1] The Canfields, for meritorious service, received from the king of England, in 1350, a grant of land on the river Cam, in Yorkshire, and settled there.

After occupying that grant for 300 years, they came to the United States, shortly after the arrival of the Plymouth Pilgrims, and were among the first settlers of New Haven, Connecticut.

[4] Widowed and without resources at the close of the American Civil War, in 1869, she entered the Woman's Homeopathic College of Cleveland, Ohio.

During the following summer, she practiced in Fort Wayne, Indiana, earning enough to enable her to enter the Men's Homeopathic College of Cleveland, Ohio.

While there, she was demonstrator of anatomy in the woman's department, and practiced enough, visiting patients mornings and evenings, to defray expenses.

After a time, seeing no other women actively represented in the society, she felt that, to enjoy its privileges, one should assume its duties.