Hannah Tyler Wilcox

Her mother's father, Joseph Lawton, was a patron of education and one of the founders of the first medical college in New York, in Fairfield, Herkimer County.

His home and purse were open to the students and professors, and thus Elizabeth Lawton learned to love the science of medicine, though not permitted to study it.

Tyler resolved to accept the position, and in one year she built up a successful school, when the civil war made it unsafe for a teacher of northern views to remain, and she returned to her native town.

[1] She encouraged her colleagues to investigate the physiological and psychological benefits of oxytocic electricity to obviate the need for drugs and forceps during delivery and prevent postpartum hemorrhage.

She was a member of the National American Institute of Homoeopathy, and was a delegate from St. Louis and Missouri to the convention in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1887.