Papers, 1939

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Papers, 1939

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Manuscript and photographs for the History of Women in Medicine, and a short biography of Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, physician and historian.

1 file box, 14 photograph folders

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Kate Campbell (Hurd) Mead, 1867-1941

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Esther Clayson was born in Seabeck, Washington Territory at her father’s logging camp on the Puget Sound on November 16, 1870. After graduating from the University of Oregon Medical Shool in 1894, she joined her husband Dr. Emil Pohl in Alaska for the gold rush. While fighting a meningitis epidemic she persuaded a notorious bandit to give her money to begin a hospital in a barn. Emil died of encephalitis in 1909. Her brother Fred was murdered on the Dawson trail and she lost her onl...