[3] She attended medical school at the University of California, one of only two women students enrolled there in 1875.
[6] She was an assistant editor of The California Medical and Surgical Reporter when it launched in 1905.
[7] For two years, she shared a small practice in pediatrics with Rose Talbot Bullard, another early woman physician in Los Angeles.
[9] When Charlotte Blake Brown died in 1904, Follansbee wrote her colleague's obituary for a professional journal.
[11] In 1919, the Cabrillo Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution raised money to dedicate a children's hospital bed in memory of Follansbee.