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Dr. Daisy Zachary McGuire

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  • This 1910 photograph is a portrait of Dr. Daisy Zachary McGuire (1880-1980). Daisy grew up in the Norton community of Jackson County and became the first licensed female dentist in North Carolina when she graduated in 1908 from Southern Dental College in Atlanta. She practiced dentistry in Sylva, North Carolina and was the oldest practicing dentist in the nation when she retired in 1977 at the age of 97.