Emily Pierson

Early in her career, Pierson worked as a teacher, and then later, as an organizer for the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA).

After women earned the right to vote, she went back to school to become a physician in her hometown of Cromwell, Connecticut.

[1] Her father, Andrew Nils Pierson, a horticulturalist, was also wealthy and provided his daughter with an excellent education.

[1] She worked as a state organizer for CWSA and was involved in giving speeches and coordinating the 1912 Trolley campaign for women's suffrage.

[8] In 1921, Pierson attended Yale School of Medicine and earned her medical degree in 1924 as the only woman in her class.