Lucy Manetta Hughes was born in Mebanesville, North Carolina in 1863 and was orphaned as a young child. She graduated from Scotia Seminary in Concord, North Carolina in 1885 and married Rev. David Brown four years later. In 1894 she graduated with a degree in medicine from Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. She went on […]
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