Hannah Tyler Wilcox

Hannah Tyler Wilcox (August 31, 1838-Nov. 22, 1909) was an American physician.

Early life Hannah Tyler was born in Boonville, New York, on August 31, 1838. Her father, Amos Tyler, was a cousin of President John Tyler. His liberal ideas on the subject of woman's education were far in advance of his generation. 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.

Her great aim was the advancement of her sex. She was prominent in all the great movements of and for women, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Woman's Relief Corps and the educational and industrial unions. 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. She was medical examiner for ten years for the Order of Chosen Friends.

She died at her home in St. Louis on November 22, 1909 at the age of 71.