Template:Did you know nominations/Elizabeth Marshall (pharmacist)

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:36, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Elizabeth Marshall (pharmacist)[edit]

  • ... that Elizabeth Marshall was the second woman to become a pharmacist in the United States? Source: "The second U.S. woman to be a pharmacist, Elizabeth Marshall assumed the management of the Marshall Apothecary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..." (link)

Created by Biochemistry&Love (talk). Self-nominated at 02:51, 7 November 2017 (UTC).

  • Looks good: sufficient new, long, within policy, and hook is concise and interesting. Nice work. Neutralitytalk 02:22, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
@Biochemistry&Love: Coming to promote this, I find the hook unsatisfactory. Although some sources state she was the second female pharmacist, others dispute this, mentioning a Mistress Jane Loring of Boston in 1800, and it would be safer to go with the more generic
That's interesting; I didn't encounter that. Thank you for discovering that controversy. Based on that, I'm agreeable with ALT1.―Biochemistry🙴 15:07, 28 November 2017 (UTC)