Laura Emeline Eames Chase

Laura Emeline Eames Chase (1856-1917), one of the few women dentists in St. Louis, Missouri in the 1890s, was the first female member of the American Dental Association.Laura Emeline Eames was born on February 12, 1856, and died October 12, 1917.

The Eames family were living near Lebanon, Tennessee, when counted on the 1860 Census;[1] they remained there until 1862.

[3] She and her husband were living with her parents in St Louis, Missouri when counted on the 1880 census.

[4] Her son, Irwin Chase, was the designer of the a small boat known as a "sea wasp" or "Chaser", at least 300 of them were sold to the British for hunting enemy submarines in World War I.

An 1896 interview in the St. Louis Dispatch provides background information on Chase and her dental practice.