Rosa Meador Goodrich Boido
Rosa Meador Goodrich Boido | |
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 Rosa Goodrich Boido, from a 1913 publication | |
| Born | Rosa Meador Goodrich February 24, 1870 Navasota, Texas |
| Died | October 27, 1959 Kauai, Hawaii |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, suffragist, temperance worker |
Rosa Meador Goodrich Boido (February 24, 1870 – October 27, 1959) was an American physician, suffragist, and temperance worker. She was the first woman to hold a medical license in Arizona.
Early life[edit]
Rosa Meador Goodrich was born in Navasota, Texas, the daughter of Briggs Goodrich and Rosa Meador Goodrich. Her father fatally stabbed her mother when Rosa was a baby, and she was raised mainly by her paternal grandmother, Serena Corrothers Goodrich.[1] Her father, who remarried, went on to serve as attorney general of Arizona Territory in the 1880s.[2] She attended Pacific Methodist College in Santa Rosa, California, and earned a medical degree at Cooper Medical College in 1895.[3][4] Her thesis was titled "Inaugural thesis on the practise of medicine and surgery in Guatemala, Central America".[5]
Career[edit]
Boido and her husband practiced medicine in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico[6] after earning their degrees in California. In 1899 they homesteaded in Arizona. She was the first woman and the fifth person to earn a medical license in Arizona, and the first licensed physician in Tucson.[7][8] Her practice in Tucson was damaged by fire in 1903.[9] The Boidos moved to Phoenix in 1911, and opened the Twilight Sleep Hospital, specializing in obstetrics and gyneocology, but also offering general clinical services.[4][10]
Boido was active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Arizona, and served as a delegate to the 1892 convention of the California Prohibitionist Party. She was president of the Pima County Suffrage Club,[11][12] and worked for national suffrage rights after Arizona's women gained the ballot in 1912. She was vice-president of the Phoenix Civic League,[13] ran for a seat on the Phoenix School Board in 1912,[14] helped to establish the Phoenix Social Service League in 1914, and worked to end the death penalty in Arizona.[1]
In 1918 Boido was charged with performing an abortion at the Twilight Sleep Hospital, and found guilty;[15][16] she served two months in prison,[17] and lost her medical license.[18] By then her husband, facing his own legal problems,[19][20] returned to his native Mexico.[3] Boido moved to California to live with her daughter, Rosalind Goodrich Bates, and grandsons.
Personal life[edit]
Goodrich married fellow medical student Norberto Lorenzo Boido Bazosabal in December 1893. They had two children, Rosalind Goodrich Bates and Lorenzo Boido Jr. They later divorced.[4] She died in 1959, aged 89 years, at her grandson Vernon Boido's home in Kauai, Hawaii.[21][22] There is an engraved paver in Boido's honor, in the Women's Plaza at the University of Arizona.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Osselaer, Heidi J. "Biographical Sketch of Rosa Goodrich Boido". Alexander Street Documents. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
- ^ "Welcome Arrivals". Arizona Daily Star. 1900-02-18. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-01-31 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "Dr. Rosa Meador Goodrich Boido". Women's Plaza of Honor, University of Arizona. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
- ^ a b c Jordan, Gwen (2020-02-07). "Symposium: 19th Amendment at 100: "We Must Forget Every Difference and Unite in a Common Cause - Votes For Women": Lessons From the Woman Suffrage Movement (Or, Before the Notorious RBG, There Were the Notorious RGBs)". ConLawNOW. 11 (1): quote on page 95. ISSN 2380-4688.
- ^ Boido, Rosa Meador Goodrich (1895). Inaugural thesis on the practise of medicine and surgery in Guatemala, Central America: presented to the faculty of Cooper Medical College (Thesis). OCLC 77693488.
- ^ "Sonora Siftings". The Oasis. 1907-07-27. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-01-31 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "A Brief Look at Southern Arizona Medical History and the Pima County Medical Society". Pima County Medical Society.
- ^ Devine, David (2020-11-02). Historic Tales of Territorial Tucson: 1854-1912. Arcadia Publishing. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-4671-4505-3.
- ^ "Fire at Dr. Boido's". Arizona Daily Star. 1903-04-12. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-02-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Doctress Rosa Goodrich Boido (advertisement)". Arizona Republic. 1914-04-26. p. 27. Retrieved 2022-01-31 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Connors, Jo (1913). Who's who in Arizona. Tucson, Ariz.: J. Connors. pp. 612–613 – via Hathi Trust.
- ^ Osselaer, Heidi J. (2016-05-26). Winning Their Place: Arizona Women in Politics, 1883-1950. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-3472-2.
- ^ "Club Notes". Arizona Republic. 1915-09-19. p. 13. Retrieved 2022-02-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Announcement". Tucson Citizen. 1912-02-16. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-01-31 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Star Witnesses Tell of Act of Dr. Rosa Boido". Arizona Republic. 1918-04-02. p. 6. Retrieved 2022-02-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Speculate on Case of Dr. Rosa Boido". Arizona Republic. 1918-05-16. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-02-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dr. Rosa Boido is Taken to Florence". Arizona Republic. 1918-04-24. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-02-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Melcher, Mary S. (2016-12-15). Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona. University of Arizona Press. pp. 71–72. ISBN 978-0-8165-3679-5.
- ^ "Missing Witness Dismissal of Case". Arizona Republic. 1916-03-04. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-01-31 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dr. Boido Charged with Attempt to Bribe Justice Chas. Wheeler". Arizona Republic. 1917-11-07. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-02-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dr. Rosa Boido". The Honolulu Advertiser. 1959-10-28. p. 6. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
- ^ "Dr. Rosa Boido". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 1959-10-28. p. 6. Retrieved 2022-02-01 – via Newspapers.com.