Dr. Louise Young. a native Marylander. worked as an obstetrician and gynecologist and in 1932 became the first black woman physician licensed to practice medicine in the State. Marie Von Hatter Sheim Bavernschmidt. born in 1875 to a father who was a German immigrant and a mother who was a member of an established Maryland German family. was a well educated. wealthy woman in Baltimore. She became active in several public service activities. which included organizing a fund to support cityrun clinics for young mothers and helping establish a prenatal clinic associated with Johns Hopkins Hospital. She became well known as the conscience of Baltimore and was a vocal activist. greatly influencing Baltimore civic. educational. and political affairs.
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