Charlotte Blake Brown

She married Henry Adams Brown, and in 1872 attended the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia, graduating with an MD in 1874.

A third female physician, Dr. Sara E. Brown, subsequently joined them, and the institution was reorganized as the San Francisco Hospital for Children in 1878.

In 1854, they moved to Chile, where her father, a Presbyterian minister, ran a mission for Scottish miners until 1854, when they returned to Philadelphia.

In 1876, however, she was one of four women admitted into the California Medical Society, causing the San Francisco physicians to re-consider and grant her membership two years later.

Brown wrote 18 articles for medical journals in addition to carrying on a busy practice and raised three children, two of whom also became physicians.