Pioneer Professor and Physician
Hannah E. Myers was born to a Quaker family in Sandy Spring, Maryland, on May 30, 1819. She was the daughter of Samuel Myers and Paulina Oden Myers and one of seven children. When she was 14, the family moved to Ohio. Her father was a teacher at a Quaker School and the family espoused humanitarianism and the equal education of boys and girls. The were also staunch abolitionists, abhorring the use and mistreatment of slaves. As a young girl, Hannah always loved science and