Records of the National Park Service, 1785 - 2006. National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records, 2013 - 2017. National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records: Texas. Texas SP Connelly-Yerwood House.

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Records of the National Park Service, 1785 - 2006. National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records, 2013 - 2017. National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records: Texas. Texas SP Connelly-Yerwood House.

2013-2017

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This resource is located in Travis County, Texas. This includes the registration form, photographs, maps, and correspondence detailing the significance of the Connelly-Yerwood House. This single family home was the residence of Dr. Charles R. Yerwood, who was the son of an enslaved man and physician who was a long-time public advocate for the improved treatment of tuberculosis in the Black population. His two daughters who lived with him in this home were also physicians. Dr. Ursula Joyce Yerwood Carwin was committed to improving the care of low-income women and children. Dr. Connie Ralstine Yerwood Connor trained midwives, and set up immunization programs for children and prenatal and family clinics. This resource includes a history of their lives and their impact on this community. Areas of significance include: Ethnic Heritage: Black; Medicine. Architectural classifications include: Late Victorian; Modified L-Plan. The National Register of Historic Places Reference Number is 03000279.

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Yerwood, Ursula Joyce, 1909-1987

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Ursula Joyce Yerwood Carwin (January 1909 – October 2, 1987) was the first female African American physician in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and founder of the Yerwood Center, the first community center for African Americans in Stamford, Connecticut. Yerwood was born in Victoria, Texas, to Melissa Brown Yerwood and Charles Yerwood. Melissa Yerwood was a teacher and died shortly after Yerwood's birth. Charles Yerwood was a physician, one of fewer than twenty African American physicians in T...

Connor, Connie Yerwood, 1908-1991

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Connie Ralstine Yerwood Connor (ca. 1908 - June 11, 1991) was a pioneer in public health in Texas and the first Black physician named to the Texas Public Health Service (now the Texas Department of Health). She was born in Victoria, Texas, in 1908. Both Connor and her sister, Joyce, would go along with their father, Dr. Charles R. Yerwood, when he made house calls in Gonzales County before they moved to Austin. Witnessing their father practice medicine was enough to put both women on their ...