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Annie Lowrie Alexander

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Alexander was heavily influenced by her father, also a doctor, to pursue the medical field after one of his female patients refused medical attention because she did not want to be treated by a male doctor and died as a result. She was educated by her father and a private tutor.
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in Charlotte, where she performed medical inspections of the school children and grappled with the devastation wrought by the
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Alexander worked as a physician at the Presbyterian College for Women (now
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contracted from a patient. In 2022, she was commemorated with a statue by
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Alexander started her own practice and was an assistant teacher of
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and educator. She was the first licensed female physician in the
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First licensed female physician in the Southern United States
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The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895
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Alexander was born on January 10, 1864, near the town of
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More Than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women
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Alexander died on October 15, 1929, in Charlotte of
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Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 1, A-C
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Mecklenburg County
North Carolina
Charlotte, North Carolina
35°14′16.08″N 80°50′53.16″W / 35.2378000°N 80.8481000°W / 35.2378000; -80.8481000
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
physician
Southern United States
Cornelius
Mecklenburg County
Alexander Craighead
David Caldwell
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
anatomy
Women's Medical College of Baltimore
Charlotte, North Carolina
horse-drawn buggy
New York Polyclinic
Queens University of Charlotte
malaria
typhoid fever
hookworm
World War I
first lieutenant
United States Army
Camp Greene
1918 flu pandemic
Mecklenburg Medical Society
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Charlotte Woman's Club

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