{"id":2797,"date":"2026-02-21T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:48:06","slug":"firsts-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2797","title":{"rendered":"Firsts for Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sarah G. Bagley<\/strong> became the first female telegraph operator in 1846. A women\u2019s rights advocate, she also worked to make millwork safer for women. Children could read an <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">excellent<\/span><\/strong> biography of her at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/lowe\/learn\/historyculture\/sarah-bagley.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah G. Bagley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9e\/Lucy_Hobbs_Taylor.jpg\" alt=\"File:Lucy Hobbs Taylor.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"163\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucy B. Hobbs<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Lucy B. Hobbs<\/strong> became the first woman dentist when she graduated from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1866. She practiced dentistry for over 20 years. She then turned her attention to politics and women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah G. Bagley became the first female telegraph operator in 1846. A women\u2019s rights advocate, she also worked to make millwork safer for women. Children could read an excellent biography of her at: Sarah G. Bagley. Lucy B. Hobbs became the first woman dentist when she graduated from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2797' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5336,4903,5334,4270,4272,4271,4269],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5336","tag-4903","tag-february-21","tag-first-female-telegraph-operator","tag-first-woman-dentist","tag-lucy-b-hobbs","tag-sarah-g-bagley","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26925,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/26925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}