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Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf

Birth
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
11 Nov 1762 (aged 81)
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Elizabeth was a daughter of Samuel and Mary Gooking. She married Daniel Greenleaf on November 18, 1701, and had thirteen children.
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Recognized as the first female pharmacist in America. Elizabeth Greenleaf is listed among the 32 apothecaries in New England during the late 1600s and early 1700s. She owned an apothecary shop in Boston in 1727 and was the wife of Daniel Greenleaf, a minister, physician and apothecary.
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Elizabeth was a daughter of Samuel and Mary Gooking. She married Daniel Greenleaf on November 18, 1701, and had thirteen children.
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Recognized as the first female pharmacist in America. Elizabeth Greenleaf is listed among the 32 apothecaries in New England during the late 1600s and early 1700s. She owned an apothecary shop in Boston in 1727 and was the wife of Daniel Greenleaf, a minister, physician and apothecary.
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