How Did Lucy Taylor Contribute To Become A Dentist

The Life of Lucy Hobbs
I chose Lucy Hobbs Taylor to do my paper on because she is a true inspiration to all women who are, and want to be a part of, the dental field. I hope to become a dental hygienist and live up to the standards she did. She’s contributed in so many ways to women’s rights and dentistry and didn’t let the people who didn’t believe in her hurt her pride. I hope to be as motivating and inspiring as she was to the dental field.
Lucy Hobbs Taylor was born on March 14th, 1833 in Constable, New York. She was one of ten children in her family. When she was only twelve years old, both of her parents were killed, leading to her and her siblings trying to survive on their own. Lucy tried supporting her and her siblings by having

When she got there she was rejected for enrollment and they told her they no longer allow women to attend. Lucy soon decided that she wanted to become a dentist (http://www.lawrenceks.org/lprd/parks/sesquicentennialpoint/steps/1867hobbstaylor). A man who had recently graduated from the Ohio College of Dentistry in Cincinnati named, Dr. Samuel Wardle, invited Lucy to be tutored and to be his apprentice in his office. Eventually in 1861, Hobbs felt confident enough to go on her own route and open a dental practice (http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/lucy-hobbs-taylor/15500). Her patients referred to her as Dr.

She thought it was unfair that men were considered the only humans to have civil rights. She was also a part of the woman’s suffrage movement. The woman’s suffrage movement was a movement to secure legal and social equality for women. Hobbs believed that women could do everything a man could do (http://smithjenn.wordpress.com/culture-site-introduction/culture-site-introduction/). Once she had been retired from her dental practice for a while, she decided she was unhappy with her life just doing women’s rights campaigns and she wanted to reopen a dental practice. Hobbs rebought the building of her practice in Vermont and continued to make a difference in her patients’ lives.