22666. Charlotte LeBreton Johnson
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Charlotte Johnson Baker was San Diego's first female physician and a noted suffragist and civic leader.
She was born Charlotte LeBreton Johnson March 30, 1855 in Newburyport, Massachusetts. She graduated from Vassar and received her M.D. from the University of Michigan in 1881. She became an obstetrician and did her residency in a women's prison, which was the beginning of a lifelong interest in prison reform and delinquency in girls.
She married Dr. Fred Baker on March 30, 1882 and the two practiced medicine in Akron, Ohio before moving to Socorro, New Mexico. The Bakers had two children, Mary (nicknamed Molly) and Robert, both born in New Mexico.
In 1888, Charlotte and Fred set up practice in San Diego where they were one of the first to settle in Roseville (what is now Point Loma) and build a home there. Charlotte was very prominent in San Diego medical society; she promoted pasteurization laws, wrote on the germ theory of disease, and served as the San Diego County Medical Society's first woman president. She was also a president of the Equal Suffrage Association and after helping organize the local chapter of the YWCA, served as an honorary president. Charlotte was one of the founders of the Woman's Home Association and Day Nursery, and was an active supporter of the Temperance movement and Prohibition. She died October 31, 1937, after suffering from a heart condition and being almost completely bedridden for several years.
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Hillquest Urban GuideSan Diegos first female doctor
Massachusetts born in 1855, Charlotte Johnson was a happy tomboy raised in privilege to attend Vassar College, then medical school at the University of Michigan becoming an obstetrician. Her residency at a womens penitentiary set a lifelong interest to improve conditions for women and girls. Following graduation, Charlotte married classmate Fred Baker and the newlyweds lived briefly in Akron before malaria drove them west.
The pioneer doctors settled in New Mexico (building their own structures by hand) prior to moving here in 1888 to provide a more civilized life for their young children. The Bakers immediately joined the SD County Medical Society and she established the Womans Home Association. They were the first husband and wife physician team in town, working at St. Josephs Hospital where Dr. Charlotte practiced obstetrics and gynecology, delivering 1,000 babies and never lost a mother.
31-REVISEDcharlottePolitically active, she became the first woman president of the SD County Medical Society, headed the San Diego Civil Service Commission and the temperance union. With Anna (George) Marston and Rose (Aubrey) Davidson, Dr. Charlotte founded the YWCA and served as president of the local Equal Suffrage Association. By paying taxes on property, food and clothes, women contributed to government revenues, but were denied voting rights (taxation without representation). The activist led the 1911 suffrage campaign and educated San Diegos backcountry from a decorated automobile with Mrs. Ella Allen, whose daughter Eleanor drove, and Miss Lydia Harris. Their efforts distributing literature and sharing views made the difference in SD County passing the amendment.
Dr. Charlotte also shared a common interest in education, woman and science with Ellen Browning Scripps and Dr. Mary Ritter. Mary and Charlotte gladly supplied Miss Scripps with information and provided plenty of suggestions for projects in need of contributions. This relationship strengthened all three. Miss Scripps had eyes into the community; Drs. Baker and Ritter gained the prestige of being known as friends of a wealthy philanthropist; while their physician husbands (and Ellens brother E.W. Scripps) often received the credit for their good efforts while deflecting criticism from the ladies progressive charities.
Chattanooga Daily Times
March 5, 1945Haskell - William E., 80 died at his residence, Brayton, Tenn., yesterday at 6 p.m. He was a member and former pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist Church at Brayton and had lived in the community for 40 years. He is survived by a brother, E. D. Haskell; several nieces and nephews.
1880 Federal Census for Sweetland, Muscatine Co., Iowa., shows Evans age as 9 years and his birthdate as circa 1871. According to the 1880 census record he was born in Wisconsin.
Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
Name: Paul E Haskell
Birth Date: 7 Jul 1896
Death Date: 15 Dec 1956
Cemetery: Elmwood Cemetery
Cemetery Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Enlisted April 4, 1918
Discharged April 11, 1919
Service # 796007
PFC Co A., 329th Battalion, Tanks Corps
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Graduated from the Stromsburg, Neb. High School 1888