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    Born in Scarsdale, NY, Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer was a long-time resident of New Canaan moving there in 1915 with her husband and three children.  There she wrote her autobiography Bowery to Bellevue: The Story of New York’s First Woman Ambulance Surgeon.  

    Emily Dunning Brringer was the first woman to physician to receive post-graduate surgical training in hospital service  and the first female ambulance surgeon.

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    Photo- public domain, Wikipedia For more information see https://www.cwhf.org/inductees/emily-barringer https://archive.org/details/biographicalcycl0002unse/page/15/mode/1up

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