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On June 10, 1982, a US postage stamp was issued to honor the humanitarian acts of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919), who risked her life to treat the sick and wounded during the Civil War. She was the first woman to serve as an Army surgeon.

In 1865, on the recommendation of General Sherman, Walker was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. However, 51 years later, new criteria for receiving the medal disqualified her. Walker refused to return the medal and wore it every day until her death in 1919. In 1977, an order was signed by the Secretary of the Army to reinstate her award. She is the only woman to ever be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

First Day of Issue ceremonies were held in her hometown of Oswego, New York on June 10, 1982. (Scott 2013)

                                       
                                             Dr. Mary Walker
                                              Army Surgeon
                                              Medal of Honor
 

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Sarah Jewett Robbins Minturn King (1890-?), daughter of banker Julian Wainwright Robbins (1857-1934) and Sarah Guthrie Jewett Robbins (1862-1939), of New York City. She had a younger sister Julia Wainwright Robbins, who was Mrs. Lydig Hoyt. Her first husband (married 1910) was John "Jack" Wendell Minturn (Yale '05) of New York; they divorced. Her second husband (married 1918, in Paris) was Lt. Col. Van Rensselaer Choate King (Harvard '01), of New York and Newport. "Mrs King has been abroad for more than a year acting as a nurse in some of the hospitals in France." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1918-04-14/ed-... She and King divorced in 1923: Her parents' house: books.google.com/books?id=BT2bw5tVtVMC&lpg=PA110&... Her bookplate: search.sscommons.org/object/SS7729421_7729421_653566 Gossipy article from 1925 about twice-divorced Mrs. King and her actress sister Mrs. Hoyt: news.google.com/newspapers?id=rZhRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JA8EA... Edith Evelyn Bigelow Clark (b. 1885), daughter of Poultney Bigelow and Edith Evelyn Jaffray, wife of James Francis Aloysius Clark (married 1906), was President of the War Babies' Cradle in 1917, when she wrote a letter to the Times: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30E13F8385F157A9... books.google.com/books?id=COsLAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA180&... Her father was co-owner of the New York Evening Post; her parents were married in 1884 and divorced in 1902. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poultney_Bigelow

pennylrichardsca: Thanks for providing us with the full names of these women. We'll add the information to the record when we update.