Medical pioneer Sarah Loguen Frasier was born in Syracuse, NY, January 29, 1830. A pioneering doctor in the field of medicine and one of the first African-American female doctors in America, she was the youngest of five children born to abolitionist and religious leader the Rev. James Loguen and his wife Caroline. She studied to become a doctor and was admitted to the Syracuse University College of Medicine in October of 1873, receiving her M.D. in the spring of 1876. In September that year she began an internship at Women’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her warm manner endeared her to the children in the hospital wards who called her “Miss Doc.” Besides pediatric and obstetric cases she also encountered nervous or mental patients on her rounds. In the fall of 1878 she moved to Boston, Mass., to fill a six-month vacancy in an internship at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. In the summer of 1879 she moved to Washington D.C. to live with her sister Amelia and an aunt. There she opened an office for private medical practice and soon made the acquaintance of Charles Alexander Frasier, a pharmacist whom she later married in 1882. Sometime after her husband’s death she bought a house where she lived the rest of her life. In the 1920s she developed kidney disease and Alzheimer’s. She died peacefully at her home in her daughter’s arms April 9, 1933 and was buried in Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Suitland, Prince George’s County.
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