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Emma Rochelle Wheeler
1882–1957
United States
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Biography
Emma Rochelle Wheeler was an influential African American physician in the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, known for opening and operating Walden Hospital with her husband. There, they had inpatient rooms, surgery wings, and a nursing school. She was an organizer of the Pi Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha.
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