Biography

Lizzie D. R. Atkinson was born 7 April 1859 Calcutta, India, and died 20 September 1933 in Cambridge, Mass. She graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1891 and practiced in Boston until at least 1918. After the death of her mother, Lizzie and her siblings put all the family papers and treasures in storage. In 1934, after Lizzie's death, these possessions and accompanying papers came to the Society.