Katherine Kurt

Katherine Kurt (1852–1910) was an American homeopathic physician. She was the first woman physician who ever practiced in Akron, Ohio.

Early life and education Katherine Kurt was born in Sterling

In the fall of 1880, she entered the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, from which institution she was graduated on February 23, 1882, (The Journal of the American Institute of Homoeopathy records Kurt as graduating from the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago in 1881, though this seems implausible based on when she entered the college.)

In religion, Kurt was a Universalist. She was active in church work and for a number of years, was a Sunday school teacher. She favored philanthropic and reformatory movements. Kurt was an advocate for the higher education of woman and a firm believer in suffrage for woman.

Politically, she sympathized with the Prohibition Party. For several years, she was the State superintendent of heredity in the Ohio Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

Death During the last 18 months of her life, Kurt suffered from a lingering illness. She died in Akron, Ohio, September 13, 1910, from pneumonia, following a fall which resulted in a fracture of the hip.