September 23 - Dr. Harriet Louise Hardy is Born

Labor History in 2:00 · Sep 23, 2026 · 1m

On this day in Labor History the year was 1906.

That was the day that Dr. Harriet Louise Hardy was born in Arlington, Massachusetts.

She pursued a career in medicine, driven by personal family tragedy.

She lost her father to pneumonia when she was only four years old.

She also lost a baby brother to the 1918 influenza outbreak.

Dr. Hardy became an early leader in the field of occupational medicine.

She was also the first woman to become a full professor at Harvard medical School.

Dr. Hardy began her career in occupational medicine when she began to investigate the causes of illness among…