Background
McKane was born in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania.
McKane was born in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania.
Alice graduated from the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia in 1889.
Her parents died before she reached the age of seven and she lost her vision for three years. In 1892, she graduated from the Woman"s Medical College of Pennsylvania with a medical degree. Alice moved to Augusta, Georgia where she taught at the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute, now the Lucy Craft Laney High School.
In 1893, the couple opened the McKane Training School for Nurses, a school for black nurses and the first one of its kind in Southeast Georgia.
Alice also wrote and published Clover Leaves, a poetry book, in 1914.