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San Diego County, CA Biographies |
| BAKER, Mrs. Charlotte Johnson, physician, born in
Newburyport, Mass., 30th March, 1855. Her maiden name was Charlotte Le
Breton Johnson. She was graduated from the Newburyport high school in
1872, spent a year in teaching, and entered Vassar College in 1873. She
was graduated from that institution in 1877 with the degree of B.A.
During the college year of 1877-78 she served as instructor in
gymnastics in Vassar. In 1878 and 1879 she was assistant to Dr. Eliza M.
Mosher, surgeon in the Woman's Reformatory Prison in Sherbourne, Mass.
In the fall of 1879 she entered with advanced standing the medical
department of the University of Michigan, from which institution she was
graduated in 1881 with the degree of M.D. She returned to Newburyport
and in 1882 was married to Dr. Fred Baker and they went to Akron, O.
Threatened failure of health caused her to go to New Mexico, where she
lived in the mountains for five years. Early in 1888 she and her husband
moved to San Diego, Cal., where both are engaged in successful practice
as physicians. Their family consists of two children. In 1889 Dr.
Charlotte received the degree of A.M. from Vassar College for special
work in optics and ophthalmology done after graduation. Besides her
professional work, Dr. Baker has always identified herself with the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union and with all other movements for the
advancement of women individually, socially and politically. (American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Volume 1, Publ. 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow) |
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