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Sarah Loguen Fraser

1850–1933

United States

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Sarah Marinda Loguen Fraser, née Loguen, (January 29, 1850 – April 9, 1933) was an American physician and pediatrician. She was the fourth female African-American physician in the United States, and the first female doctor in the Dominican Republic. The daughter of an abolitionist, Fraser grew up in a home that marked a stopping point on the Underground Railroad, where she learned to treat several injuries as a young girl.

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