The paper just posted online - and it'll probably appear in the Sunday print edition - another neat history piece, pegged to the current exhibit on local medical history, from the Mill.
"The female doctor who served Salem residents from 1890 to 1941" is a biographical sketch of Susan Araminta Davis Bean.
Here are some interesting clips not themselves directly in the piece and prompted by it.
On the Eclectics and presenting a paper, only a year after coming to Salem.
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| October 8th, 1891 |
An early ad for her practice.
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| November 7th, 1891 |
That would be the current site of the Firestone building and driveway/empty lot immediately south of it.
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| Old First National Bank building SW corner, Commercial and Chemeketa |
On her popularity and attending a suffrage conference.
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| June 19th, 1896 |
Treating an industrial accident.
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| July 9th, 1896 |
Did she have family here? The SJ piece suggested she was a stranger and came from far away. But this suggests the possibility of stronger roots. Questions!
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| August 5th, 1896 |
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| December 6th, 1897 |
More emergency doctoring.
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| November 17th, 1899 |
Her name among the very first women to register to vote in Salem.
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| November 27th, 1912 |
Part of the morning paper's ongoing Thursday promotional series, this issue on growing medicinal plants for drugs.
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| May 1st, 1924 |
A moment in the development of West Salem.
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| June 29th, 1938 |
Her obituary and a tribute from a patient.
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| March 11th, 1941 |
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| March 13th, 1941 |
Maybe there will be more to say later, as her life history intersects with a number of developments in social, economic, political, and cultural history here.
Addendum, August 6th
And here it is in print!
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| In the Sunday paper |
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(Added clip from the print version.)
(Added several more clips, inserted in chronological order.)
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