The following entry for Dr. Ethel Amanda (Edgerton) Hurd is found in Woman’s Who’s Who of America, A Biographical Dictionary of Comtemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915 (John William Leonard, ed.; New York: The American Commonwealth Company; 1914; pg. 417):

“HURD, Ethel Edgerton, 602 Nicollet Av., Minneapolis, Minn.

Physician; b. Galesburg, HI., Aug. 11, 1846; dau. S. Everest and Martha L. (Belding) Edgerton; ed. public school and Knox Coll.; Univ. of Minn. Med. Dep't, M.D.; m. Woodhull, Ill., Feb. 22, I865, Capt. Tyrus I. Hurd (now deceased); children: Addle (deceased), Annah. After graduation took post-graduate course In electro-therapeutics; mem. Med. Woman's Club (sec. four years, pres. two years); now sec. Minn. State Homoeopathic lust. Mem. Minneapolis Med. Soc. (pres. 1908); lecturer In electro-therapeutics, Univ. of Minn., four years. Chairman Social Hygiene Com., Minn. Federation of Woman's Clubs; lecturer on social hygiene and eugenics. Favors woman suffrage; has held various offices in Political Equality Club of Minneapolis; mem. Exec. Board of Minn. Woman Suffrage Ass'n, and since 1897, excepting one year (sec. several years), lecturer on Woman and the Franchise. Universal 1st Mem. Minn. State Homoeopathic Inst.; D.A.R.”

The same publication gives the following entry for Ethel’s daughter, Annah Hurd:

“HURD, Annah, 602 Nicollet Av., Minneapolis, Minn.

Physician; b. Humboldt, Kan., Nov. 20, 1871; dau. Tyrus I. and Ethel (Edgerton) Hurd; grad. Coll. of Pharmacy, Univ. of Minn. (Doctor of Pharmacy), '96; Coll. of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery, Univ. of Minn., M.D., 1900; Hamline Univ. (non grad.) Mem. Am. Inst, of Homoeopathy, Minnesota Inst, of Homœopathy, Minneapolis Med. Soc, Med. Woman's Club sf Minneapolis, Stato Med. Examining Board, Woman's Welfare League, Minneapolis Political Equality Club. Favors woman suffrage; chairman Lecture Bureau, Minn. Woman Suffrage Ass'n.”