Gladys Roosevelt Dick

1889–1926 (age 37)

Physician

Biography

Gladys Roosevelt Dick was a physician whose compassionate care and pioneering spirit marked her brief but impactful life from 1889 to 1926. She practiced medicine with a depth of empathy that comforted countless patients.

At Green-Wood Cemetery, she is commemorated as a healer who embodied the highest ideals of the medical profession during a time when few women were in the field.