esther pohl lovejoy, and we did see her picture. she was the one washing clothes in the tub with her husband who was a surgeon. she was born in a logging camp, very poor family, huge big family, lots of children, she had almost no schooling, but she was very impressed by the woman doctor who delivered one of her baby sisters, and she said to herself, when i grow up, i'm going to be a doctor, and by the time she was a teenager, her parents had finally moved into portland, they worked in a hotel, and one of the guests in the hotel was a professor and he started tutoring her. she was very bright, and she, by the time she got to the point where she could apply to medical school, she clerked in some of the first department stores in the west. she was a salesclerk to make money for her tuition money to go to the university medical school. she was one of three women in her class. this is around 1890-ish. she married a surgeon in her class, and they took off. they practiced for a little while in portland, and then they said, no, this is not