Students from Rochester Training School of Nursing

Students from Rochester Training School of Nursing

Students from Rochester Training School of Nursing, 1905. Dr. Laura Linton is standing in the back row, at center. Image used courtesy of the History Center of Olmsted County.

Laura Linton at Rochester State Hospital

Laura Linton at Rochester State Hospital

Laura Linton performs surgery in an operating room at Rochester State Hospital, ca. 1900–1910. Photo shared by ancestry.com user Tom Rasmussen on November 22, 2014. Public domain.

 Laura Linton and family

Laura Linton and family

Laura Linton with members of her family. Pictured are (left to right): Christiana Linton (Laura’s mother), Laura Phelps (Laura niece), Sarah Linton Phelps (Laura’s sister, who was also a physician), Isabella Phelps (Sarah’s daughter), and Laura Linton. Photo shared by ancestry.com user ljohnson0189 on March 16, 2021. Public domain.

Laura Linton

Laura Linton

Laura Linton, ca. 1893. From A Woman of the Century (Buffalo, NY: Moulton, 1893), 464. Public domain.

Laura Linton

Laura Linton

Laura Linton, ca. 1896.

Linton, Laura Alberta (1853–1915)

In 1879, scientists at the University of Minnesota asked chemistry student Laura Linton to analyze rock samples that had been collected along the North Shore of Lake Superior. Her research identified a previously unknown mineral, which her professors named “lintonite” in recognition of her work. Linton went on to become a chemistry and physics teacher, a research chemist, and, after earning a medical degree at the age of forty-seven, the supervising physician of the women’s ward at Rochester State Hospital.

Members of the National Woman’s Party picketing for suffrage

Members of the National Woman’s Party picketing for suffrage

Members of the National Woman’s Party picketing for suffrage in front of the White House on March 4, 1917. Photograph by Harris and Ewing. Records of the National Woman’s Party, Library of Congress. Public domain.

Alice Paul

Alice Paul

Alice Paul, 1915. Paul worked closely with Minnesota suffragist Bertha Moller in the 1910s. Photograph by Harris and Ewing. Harris and Ewing collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.

Bertha Moller

Bertha Moller

Bertha Moller photographed in 1922, while she was a student at the University of Minnesota’s law school. From the Minneapolis Morning Tribune, December 10, 1922.

Moller (Delin), Bertha Berglin, 1888–1951

Bertha Berglin Moller (Delin), jailed twice in Washington, DC, for leading a hunger strike, was one of Minnesota’s most passionate and fiery woman suffragists. Following passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Moller continued her activism by advocating for the Equal Rights Amendment and women’s labor rights. A modern woman for the 1920s, Moller became a lawyer, divorced, remarried, and supported herself throughout her life.

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