[8] The first Board of Directors (nineteen in number) was made up almost entirely of women who were serving on the Board of Lady Managers for the Clinical Department of the New England Female Medical College in 1861-1862, the last year of Dr. Zakrzewska’s connection with that college. Her resignation at the end of that year caused that department to be discontinued and the services of the Lady Managers to be no longer in request by the college. To the number of Lady Managers who transferred their interest to the new Hospital were added on the Board of Directors several men, one being the former leading trustee of the college, Hon. Samuel E. Sewall. This historic first Board of Directors was finally constituted as follows: Mrs. Mary C. E. Barnard Miss Sarah P. Beck Geo. Wm. Bond Mrs. Louisa C. Bond Mrs. Ednah D. Cheney Mrs. Anna H. Clarke Miss Mary J. Ellis Mrs. Lucretia G. French Miss Lucy Goddard Fred. W. G. May Mrs. Joanna L. Merriam Mrs. Mary A. S. Palmer Thomas Russell Mrs. Caroline M. Severance Samuel E. Sewall John H. Stephenson James Tolman Mrs. Mary G. White Dr. Marie E. Zakrzewska [9] Later, Dr. Mary E. Breed, who was graduated from the New England Female Medical College and had been a student under Dr. Zakrzewska at the New York Infirmary, became resident physician, and Miss Anita E. Tyng and Miss Lucy M. Abbott, who had been her students at the New England Female Medical College, were student assistants. Dr. John Ware consented to serve as consulting physician and Dr. Samuel Cabot as consulting surgeon. [10] Karl Heinzen is thus described by the Boston _Evening Transcript_: He was a native of Prussia and came to America in January, 1848, as an exile, having been banished from Germany on account of a book which he published on the _Civil Service of the Prussian Government_, which showed that, instead of the promised constitutional government, a complete net of absolutism was extending over every province of Prussia. On the breaking out of the revolution of 1848 in France and Germany, he left America in May to participate in the movement in Europe; after its suppression he was again exiled, going first to Switzerland and afterwards to England. But in 1850 he again came to America which has since been the scene of his labors. On his arrival he found almost the entire German population in the Democratic and pro-slavery party; he therefore established here the first anti-slavery German newspaper. This exposed him to severe persecutions by the Democrats, so that his life was threatened in New York City and in Toledo, Ohio. He was also the first among the German-Americans to advocate woman suffrage. Since 1858 he has lived in Boston, and during this time he has stood on terms of firm friendship with William Lloyd Garrison who frequently translated Mr. Heinzen’s articles for the _Liberator_.