Louise M. Harvey Clarke

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Louise M. Harvey Clarke
Born1859
Died1934
Occupation(s)medical doctor,writer,speaker

Louise M. Harvey Clarke (1859–1934) was a medical doctor and widely known writer, speaker, and clubwoman in Los Angeles and Riverside counties, California.[1][2][3]

Personal life[edit]

Louise Harvey was born on November 8, 1859, in Athens, Maine.[4][5][6]

She was married in Los Angeles on July 3, 1898, to Ernest Perley Clarke, editor and publisher of the Riverside Press, with the Rev. A.C. Williams officiating.[6][7][8] Her husband died on September 20, 1933.[9] She died in 1934.[citation needed]

Description[edit]

In 1895, a San Francisco Call reporter wrote this about Harvey after she spoke at a meeting in Santa Barbara:[10]

. . . when Dr. Louise Harvey came forward to present her paper, the beautiful face of this cultivated young woman, who has entered into this, the latest and most sensible type of philanthropic work, chained the attention of the audience. . . . Somebody asked, "What, then, is the highest type of Altruism? Gently and thoughtfully, but unhesitatingly[,] the young physician repllied: "I think it is to give one's self, not to give one's life to die for humanity, but to live for it."

Education and professional life[edit]

She earned her medical degree in 1892 from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.[11]

In 1893 she and other women organized and conducted the Detroit Free Dispensary for Women and Children on the southeast corner of State Street and Park Place.[12][13][14]

From 1894 to 1897 Harvey was affiliated with the School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.[15][16]

Harvey was appointed sanitary inspector by the city on May 15, 1895, without pay, to assist a settlement association which was tending to the welfare of the Sonoratown, Los Angeles, neighborhood, inhabited principally by Latinos. The city's Board of Health at the same meeting asked the City Council to print circulars in Spanish "giving the sanitary rules."[17][18]

She was "deeply interested in the Social Settlement work in Sonoratown."[19] In 1896 Harvey was the "resident physician" of the Orphans Home Association.[20]

In January 1902, Louise Harvey Clarke was elected president of the Riverside County Medical Society.[21]

In 1905 Clarke spent three months in "special hospital study" in Philadelphia and New York.[22]

Volunteer work[edit]

She was a member of the Friday Morning Club of Los Angeles.[19]

In 1903 she organized a Riverside chapter of the Business and Professional Women's Club, becoming its first president.[23] In 1903 also, Harvey was on the board of directors of the local humane society.[24] In 1905 she was the first president of the newly organized Young Women's Christian Association in Riverside.[25]

Clarke took part in the Woman's Parliament of Southern California in 1895, 1905, and 1910.[26][27][28]

She was a Republican elector in the 1916 Presidential election.[29]

She was a member of the board of directors of the Riverside city and county libraries in 1921 and 1923.[30][31]

Sampling of papers read aloud[edit]

  • The Trained Nurse, January 1894.[15]
  • Child Culture, August 1894, addressing "proper food, dress, and general habits. . . . If one-half the money expended in this state for criminals be given to the kindergarten, what a world of good would be done."[32]
  • The Science of Foods, September 1894.[33]
  • Hygiene and Education, May 1896.[34]
  • City Missions, May 1896, "the urgent need of all kinds of work among the poor."[35]
  • Mothers and Daughters, May 1897.[16]
  • The Moral and Physical Training of Children, September 1897.[37]
  • The Medical Profession and the Press, October 1902.[38]
  • The Work of Newspaper Women, April 1909.[39]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Fourth Estate: A Weekly Newspaper for Publishers, Advertisers, Advertising Agents and Allied Interests". Fourth Estate Publishing Company. March 11, 1915 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "13 Nov 1931, Page 14 - The San Bernardino County Sun at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "21 Sep 1933, 2 - Visalia Times-Delta at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "13 Apr 1895, 6 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "25 May 1896, 3 - Los Angeles Evening Express at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ a b "California, County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1830–1980. California Department of Public Health". Ancestry.com.
  7. ^ "6 Jul 1898, 8 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "10 Jul 1898, Page 14 - Los Angeles Herald at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "21 Sep 1933, 11 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "3 May 1895, Page 2 - The San Francisco Call at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Association, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania Alumnae (March 11, 1900). "Transactions of the ... Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania". The Association – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "14 Jun 1893, Page 9 - Detroit Free Press at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "5 May 1907, Page 4 - Detroit Free Press at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "15 Mar 1893, Page 9 - Detroit Free Press at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ a b "1 Feb 1894, 7 - Los Angeles Evening Express at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ a b "4 May 1897, Page 3 - San Francisco Chronicle at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "The Public Service," Los Angeles Times, May 16, 1895, image 12.
  18. ^ "16 May 1895, Page 11 - Los Angeles Herald at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ a b "8 Jun 1896, Page 4 - The San Francisco Call at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "13 Jun 1896, Page 3 - Los Angeles Herald at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association". American Medical Association Press. March 11, 1902 – via Google Books.
  22. ^ "Southern California Practitioner". March 11, 1905 – via Google Books.
  23. ^ "2 Feb 1903, 12 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ "18 Jun 1903, 20 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ Holmes, Elmer Wallace (March 11, 1912). "History of Riverside County, California: With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County who Have Been Identified with Its Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present". Historic Record Company – via Google Books.
  26. ^ "3 May 1895, 2 - Los Angeles Evening Express at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  27. ^ "13 Oct 1905, Page 7 - Los Angeles Herald at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  28. ^ "28 Apr 1910, Page 1 - Santa Ana Register at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  29. ^ Francisco (Calif.), San; Supervisors, San Francisco (Calif ) Board of (March 11, 1919). "San Francisco Municipal Reports". order of the Board of Supervisors – via Google Books.
  30. ^ School, Riverside Public Library (Calif ) Library Service (March 11, 1913). "Announcements" – via Google Books.
  31. ^ California Library Association, Handbook and Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, 1923
  32. ^ "9 Aug 1894, 5 - Los Angeles Evening Express at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  33. ^ "19 Sep 1894, 8 - Los Angeles Evening Express at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  34. ^ "7 May 1896, Page 4 - Los Angeles Herald at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  35. ^ "17 May 1896, 28 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  36. ^ "30 May 1897, 24 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  37. ^ "21 Sep 1897, 4 - Los Angeles Evening Express at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  38. ^ "22 Oct 1902, 5 - The Evening Transcript at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  39. ^ "22 Apr 1909, Page 11 - Los Angeles Herald at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
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