Carrie Chase Davis

After teaching for some years, she graduated with a Medical Degree from Howard University College of Medicine in 1897, with a specialization in Bacteriology.

[1] Her father was a native of New York, born February 14, 1824, and became well known as a leading farmer and stock raiser near Sandusky, Ohio.

[4] The Davis family left Ohio in 1868, settling at Bloomington, Illinois, so that the daughters could have good school advantages.

She practiced medicine in Washington until December, 1897, when she gained experience as a resident physician at Lying in Charity Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1898.

[5] For the next decade, she steadily progressed professionally, and also became widely recognized as a champion of women's rights, especially in the matter of obtaining the privilege of suffrage.

Her prominence as a suffragist was further indicated by the fact that for a number of years, she held the position of recording secretary of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association.