Charlotte Johnson Baker
Dr. Charlotte Johnson Baker was the first woman physician to practice medicine in San Diego, California. She practiced obstetrics and gynecology at St. Josephs Hospital, where her husband, Fred Baker, MD, was a general practitioner. The Bakers were the first husbandandwife physicians in San Diego.
She was born Charlotte Le Breton Johnson in Newburyport, Massachusetts on March 30, 1855. She graduated from Newburyport High School in 1872, and after a year teaching, she attended Vassar College in 1873. During this time she was an instructor in gymnastics. She graduated from Vassar in 1877 with a Bachelor of Arts. In the fall of 1879, she attended the medical department of the University of Michigan she received her M.D. in 1881. She returned home to Newburyport, then married Dr. Frederick Fred Baker on March 30, 1882. In that year they moved to Akron, Ohio, where they practiced medicine, before moving to Socorro, New Mexico, where their two children, Mary Caroline and Robert Henry, were born. In January 1888, the Baker family moved to San Diego, California, where she and her husband became successful physicians, settling in Roseville in the Point Loma area. In that year she also received a A.M. from Vassar College for special work in optics and ophthalmology done after graduation.
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