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Dominican Republic. On December 23,1883, she gave birth a daughter, Gregoria Alejandrina, named after her godfather Gregorio Luperón. However, only a native midwife attended her birth, with no medical intervention, and Fraser sustained damage to her internal organs during childbirth. This
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is named in Sarah’s honor. Each year, Upstate also awards the "Sarah Loguen Fraser
Scholarship" to a first or second year medical student who demonstrates need and "holds similar ideals to Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser." In recent years, Upstate has celebrated "Sarah Loguen Fraser Day" in February,
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at age 23. Her 1873 enrollment in medical school was celebrated by a local
Syracuse newspaper which wrote "This is women’s rights in the right direction, and we cordially wish the estimable young lady every success in the pursuit of the profession of her choice."
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After graduation from medical school, Fraser was proposed to by a white classmate, who claimed to love her but also implied that having a white husband would be essential to her professional success. She declined, but while she was in
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woman to become a licensed physician in the United States, the second in New York, and the first to graduate from a coeducational medical school. In fall of 1876, she began interning in pediatrics and obstetrics at the
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When Sarah Fraser died in 1933, the
Dominican Republic declared a nine-day period of national mourning with flags flown at half-mast. A small park in Syracuse honors the Loguen family while the Child Care Center at
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in France. From then to 1901, Fraser and her daughter travelled frequently between
Washington and France. In 1901, she settled with her daughter in Washington D.C. She passed away at home in
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to complete her internship in 1878. This second hospital was unique in its use of all-women staffing, and it was here that Fraser gained a passion for
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