Esther Pohl Lovejoy

Esther Pohl Lovejoy (* November 16, 1869; † August 31, 1967 ) was an American physician and pioneer health, women's rights activist and congressional candidate. She played an important role in the construction of cross-border medical aid organizations.

Life

As Esther Clayson born in a logging camp in Seabeck in the U.S. state of Washington, she received virtually no regular schooling. Her parents were working as a timber merchant, but had to give up the business, ultimately they came to Portland. Nevertheless, she completed the second woman at the medical faculty of the University of Oregon to study medicine from. She married there shortly after their completion, fellow students Emil Pohl. Her brothers were talking about her and her husband to the gold prospectors to go to Alaska. They opened their practice in Skagway. As Frederick, one of her brothers, was murdered in 1899, she returned alone back to Portland. She visited her husband in Alaska but regularly. In the years 1907-1909 she was health officer of the Portland Board of Health. They established the first nursing school and wrote rules for keeping milk. She also organized school inspections and the fight against rats. 1911 her husband died during an encephalitis epidemic. In 1912 she married the businessman George Lovejoy, but left in 1920 divorced.

Conscientious

During World War II she went to Paris in 1917 and worked in a hospital of the Red Cross.

Association beings

She created before the elections of 1912, the Equal Suffrage League Everybody's and demanded women's suffrage. Oregon was then the seventh U.S. state that allowed women to vote. In 1919 she was a founding member and first president until 1924 of the Medical Women's International Association. 1932 to 1933 she was president of the Medical Women's National Association, and until 1965 the General Director of the American Women's Hospitals ' service.