Esther Pohl Lovejoy
Esther Pohl Lovejoy (born November 16, 1869 , † August 31, 1967 ) was an American doctor and health pioneer, suffragette and congressional candidate. She played an important role in building cross-border medical aid organizations.
Life
When Esther Clayson was born in a logging camp in Seabeck, Washington, USA, she received almost no regular schooling. Her parents worked as timber traders, but had to give up the business, ultimately they came to Portland. Even so, she became the second woman to graduate from the University of Oregon Medical School to study medicine. She married fellow student Emil Pohl shortly after graduating . Her brothers persuaded her and her husband to go to the gold prospectors in Alaska. They opened their practice in Skagway . When Frederick, one of her brothers, was murdered there in 1899, she returned to Portland alone. However, she visited her husband regularly in Alaska. From 1907 to 1909 she was a health officer on the Portland Board of Health . She established the first nurses' school and wrote regulations for keeping milk clean. She also organized school inspections and the fight against rats. Her husband died in 1911 during an encephalitis epidemic. In 1912 she married businessman George Lovejoy, but divorced in 1920.
Military service
During the First World War, she went to Paris in 1917 and worked in a Red Cross hospital.
Associations
She created the Everybody's Equal Suffrage League before the 1912 elections and advocated women's suffrage . Oregon was then the seventh US state to allow women to vote. In 1919 she was a founding member and until 1924 first president of the Medical Women's International Association . From 1932 to 1933 she was President of the Women's Medical National Association and until 1965 General Manager of the American Women's Hospitals' Service .
literature
- Esther Pohl Lovejoy. In: Hutchinson Dictionary of American History. Helicon, Abingdon 2005, ISBN 1-4237-1119-X , p. 257.
Web links
- History: Foundation of the Medical Women's International Association. on the Medical Women's International Association website .
- Esther Pohl Lovejoy, MD: A Global Vision for Women in Medicine and International Medical Relief. ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Symposium announcement on the website of Western Oregon University, Monmouth (Oregon) 2006.
- Biography (English).
- Esther Pohl Lovejoy at NIH
- Kimberly Jensen: Neither Head nor Tail to the Campaign: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and the Oregon Woman Suffrage Victory of 1912. ( Memento of May 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: Oregon Historical Quarterly. Spring 2007.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lovejoy, Esther Pohl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American doctor and health pioneer, suffragette and congressional candidate |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1869 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1967 |