Sara josephine baker pictures family
Sara josephine baker interesting facts...
Sara Josephine Baker
Sara Josephine Baker was born on November 15th, 1873 to a Quaker family in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Sara baker cambridge
Her father, Daniel Mosser Baker, was an affluent lawyer, and her mother, Jenny Harwood Brown, was one of the first women to attend Vassar College. Her family, especially her Aunt Abby, encouraged Baker’s education and taught her not to conform to societal expectations.
Her whole life, Baker dreamed of following in her mother’s footsteps and going to Vassar College. Unfortunately, her plans went awry when her father and brother died in a typhoid epidemic when she was just sixteen years old.
The death of her family members inspired Baker to study biology and chemistry at home, in order to obtain the knowledge needed to go to medical school.
Once she graduated, she would be able to become a doctor, thus providing her family with financial support. Rather than applying to Vassar College, Baker went to the New York Women’s Medical College, founded by the famous Blackw