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The girl in white.
Emily Barringer
American ambulance surgeon
Emily Dunning Barringer (September 27, 1876[1] - April 8, 1961)[2] was the world's first female ambulance surgeon and the first woman to secure a surgical residency.[3]
Emily Dunning was born in Scarsdale, New York, to Edwin James Dunning and Frances Gore Lang.
The well-to-do New York family fell on hard times when she was about ten years old, and her father left for Europe to try to recoup his fortune, leaving her mother with five children. When a well-meaning friend of Dunning's mother suggested that the girl might become a milliner's apprentice, her mother said "That settles the question.
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You are going to go to college." Dr. Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, a friend of the family, recommended Cornell University's medical preparatory course, and her uncle, Henry W. Sage, a founder of Cornell, agreed to pay her tuition. Other family friends also helped with expenses.
Emily Dunning graduated in 1897 and decid