Kate Pelham Newcomb
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Kate Pelham Newcomb
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Kate Pelham Newcomb, or "Dr. Kate" as she was known to her community, was a physician in northern Wisconsin. She practiced medicine in and around Boulder Junction and Woodruff, Wisconsin, in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. In 1954 she gained national recognition from television producer Ralph Edwards and the NBC program This Is Your Life for inspiring the "Million Penny Parade", to raise funds for a new hospital.
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American physician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Pelham_Newcomb
date created:
2014-08-08T13:24:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T20:24:59Z
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