Zatae Leola Longsdorff Straw

Zatae Leola Sturgis Longsdorff Straw (April 16, 1866 – October 1, 1955) was a physician and a New Hampshire state representative.

The next year Longsdorff enrolled at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to study medicine, and was the first woman to graduate from that institution in 1887.

[1] Zatae Leola Longsdorff Straw was a prominent physician and was named head of the Manchester Medical Association.

[2] After her graduation, Straw worked for one year as an intern at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, and then moved to Blackfoot, Idaho, and became the resident physician at Fort Hall Indian Reservation.

After her marriage Straw opened a medical practice in Manchester, New Hampshire, one of the first female physicians not only in the city but also in the state.

[2] In 1941, she received a gold medal from the New Hampshire Medical Society in honour of her long service to medicine in the state.