1. Louise Southgate was one of the first women physicians in Northern Kentucky where she advocated for girls in the juvenile court system and was an early proponent of birth control.
14 Facts About Louise Southgate
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Louise Southgate was born February 20,1857, in Walton, Kentucky.
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Louise Southgate was educated at Western College in Oxford, Ohio, then graduated with a medical degree from Laura Memorial College in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Louise Southgate then spent two years studying in hospitals in New York and Europe, traveling as far as to the Pasteur Institute in France for advanced work.
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Louise Southgate lived with her younger sister Virginia and never married.
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Dr Southgate started practicing medicine at the Presbyterian Hospital in Cincinnati in 1893 and taught at the Laura Memorial College in 1894.
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Louise Southgate then left for Europe where she practiced medicine for two years.
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Louise Southgate became a member of the American Medical Association, Cincinnati chapter.
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Louise Southgate wrote scholarly articles, including for the State Medical Journal of Kentucky.
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Dr Louise Southgate was part of the growing movement in women's reproductive health and family planning of the time.
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In 1905, Dr Louise Southgate spent some time at the Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, eastern Kentucky, where she taught classes and practiced medicine.
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Louise Southgate was advocating for women's health concerns there long before the more famous Mary Carson Breckinridge of the Frontier Nursing Service or Jean Tachau worked in this area.
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Dr Louise Southgate was an avid Egyptologist and collected many artifacts that decorated her historic home in Covington.
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Louise Southgate was buried in Linden Grove Cemetery in Covington.