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Annie Alexander (athlete)
Annie Alexander may refer to: * Annie Lowrie Alexander (1864–1929), American physician and educator * Annie Montague Alexander (1867–1950), American philanthropist and paleontological collector See also * Ann Alexander (other) {{hndis, Alexander, Annie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Lowrie Alexander
Annie Lowrie Alexander (January 10, 1864October 15, 1929) was an American physician and educator. She was the first licensed female physician in the Southern United States. Biography Alexander was born on January 10, 1864, near the town of Cornelius in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. She was one of six children of John Brevard Alexander and Ann Wall Lowrie, descended from the Reverend Alexander Craighead and the Reverend David Caldwell. She was heavily influenced by her father, also a doctor, to pursue the medical field after one of his female patients refused medical attention because he was male and as a result, died. She was educated by a private tutor and her father and enrolled in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She graduated with honors in 1884 and obtained her license to practice medicine from the Maryland Board of Medical Examiners the next year, earning the highest grade among 100 candidates. She started her own practice and was an assistant teacher o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Montague Alexander
Annie Montague Alexander (29 December 1867 - 10 September 1950) was an explorer, naturalist, paleontological collector, and philanthropist. She founded the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ). From its establishment in 1908 until she died in 1950 she financed the museum's collections and supported a series of paleontological expeditions throughout the western United States. Alexander herself took part in many of these expeditions, accumulating a significant collection of fossils and exotic game animals that she would later donate to the museum. Alexander is remembered by the University of California, Berkeley as one of the "builders of Berkeley" and as the benefactress of the museum. Early life Annie Montague Alexander was born December 29, 1867, in Honolulu during the Kingdom of Hawaii. She was the granddaughter of New England missionaries in Maui. Her father Samuel Thomas Alexander and her uncle Henry Perrine Baldwi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
