My name is Elizabeth Blackwell, I was born in near Bristol,England on February 3,1821. My family was considered very strange, because we believed it was OK to go outside and get some exercise. My father owned a sugar refinery were they changed sugar cane into sugar crystals. We moved to New York in 1832. My father died in 1838. We Had no way to support our self's so we opened up an all girl school. After awhile another school school for girls opened up, so all the girls went there. I got a job offer for a new school in Hendes, Kentucky so I decided I should take it.
