Anna Manning Comfort

Childhood Anna Manning was born in Trenton, New Jersey, January 19, 1845. Comfort's mother was Elizabeth (Price) Manning, Comfort was of English and French descent. As a child, Comfort moved with her family to Boston, Massachusetts, where she received an academic education. In 1865, at the graduating exercises of that class, speeches were made by Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, Henry Jarvis Raymond, and Hon. S. S. Cox in behalf of enlarging the sphere of woman's activities, and especially on women entering the field of medicine. ==Career==

Connecticut Because her family lived in Norwich, Connecticut, after graduation in 1865, Comfort began the practice of her profession in that city. George Comfort was a scholar in linguistics and art criticism, and was one of the principal founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Syracuse Soon after their marriage, George Comfort was hired by the newly-founded Syracuse University as a Professor of Modern Languages, History and Aesthetics. Since retiring from her active medical practice, Comfort wrote prose, verse, and biographies. Comfort held memberships in the New York Woman’s Medical Society; Honorary Membership in the Lozier Medical Club; and 55 years of membership in Sorosis. ==Death and legacy==

In 1916, the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women established an endowed scholarship named in Comfort's honor. Anna Manning Comfort died of pneumonia, in New York, January 12, 1931. ==Selected works==

• ''Women's Education and Women's Health: Chiefly in Reply to "Sex in Education"'', with George Fisk Comfort (Syracuse: T.W. Dunston, 1874) ==References==