Ollie Josephine Prescott Baird Bennett

Ollie Josephine Prescott Baird Bennett (March 27, 1874 – February 4, 1957) was an American physician, She was one of the first five women medical doctors to serve in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and as a first lieutenant in World War I. She instructed more than three hundred nurses and enlisted men in the administration of anesthesia at Camp McClellan, Alabama and served from May 1, 1918, to October 5, 1918.

Following her military service, she was appointed to the War Industries Board.

Personal life

Ollie Josephine Stackhouse married George L. Prescott on July 15, 1889, in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. She had one daughter by this marriage, Olive, Mrs. E.W. Digges. and had two children. She was twice widowed. On February 4, 1934, she married Christopher C. Bennett.

Dr. Bennett was active in her community. In 1928, she joined the Mary Washington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). She was a charter member of the Women's City Club, and was a member of the Washington Branch of the Association of the American University Women's Club, the Maryland Historical Society, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, the National Genealogy Society, the Order of the Eastern Star, and the National Presbyterian Church. Genealogy and historical research were her hobbies.