Nancy was born on May 22, 1825, in
Sharon, Massachusetts to Joasiah Talbot and Mary Richards Talbot as the seventh child of five boys and five girls. In 1845, she married dentist Champion Clark, then bore a daughter who died within a year. Her husband succumbed to
typhoid fever dying in March 1848. She found her way to
Cleveland,
Ohio where under the leadership of Dean Delamater, she became the first female graduate of the Cleveland Medical College (now
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine), in 1852.
Israel Tinsdale Talbot wrote of his sister's graduation, which he attended, Clark returned to
Massachusetts, where she practiced medicine in
Boston from April 1852 to August 1854 but stopped after she was unsuccessful in gaining admission to the
Massachusetts Medical Society due to being a woman. In 1856, she married Amos Binney of Boston and had six children. After raising the family, she returned to medicine in 1874 opening a free dispensary for women in Boston. Nancy died in 1901 and was buried at
Mount Auburn Cemetery in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. ==References==