Saddle River sculptor behind statues of first U.S. women doctors

Two of the country's first female medical doctors have been added to the list of notable people immortalized with statues by Saddle River sculptor Carolyn Palmer.

Palmer's 6-foot-2-inch, 400-pound bronze statues of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser were unveiled during dedication ceremonies at the Weiskotten Hall entrance to the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, on Oct. 23.

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In 1849, Blackwell became the first woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree from Geneva College of Medicine. The college moved to Syracuse in 1871 and became the Syracuse University College of Medicine, where Longuen became the first African American woman to earn a medical doctorate from a coed school in 1876.

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