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Laura Emeline Eames Chase (1856-1917), one of the few women dentists in St. Louis, Missouri in the 1890s, was the first female member of the American Dental Association.

One of the first female dentists in St. Louis MO
Emma Eames Chase, DDS

Birth and early life

Laura Emeline Eames was born on February 12, 1856, and died October 12, 1917. She also used the name Emma Eames Chase. The Eames family were living near Lebanon, Tennessee, when counted on the 1860 Census; they remained there until 1862. She married the artist Henry Seymour Chase Jr. on January 23, 1877, in St. Louis. She and her husband were living with her parents in St Louis, Missouri when counted on the 1880 census. Her son, Irwin Chase, was the designer of the a small boat known as a "sea wasp" or "Chaser", at least 300 of them were sold to the British for hunting enemy submarines in World War I.

Dental practice

Chase is reported to be the first woman accepted as a full member of the American Dental Association and wrongly as the only woman dentist in St. Louis, Missouri in the 1890s. There were actually other female dentists practicing in St. Louis at the time the article was written.

An 1896 interview in the St. Louis Dispatch provides background information on Chase and her dental practice. She stated her father had been a dentist. She graduated from Iowa State University dental school in 1889 and used the distinction D.D.S. The same article provided information on the appearance of the Chase household that also included the doctor's practice: "the walls were covered with the work of Mrs. Chase's late husband."

Other organizations

Chase was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

References

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  2. "Ancestry - Sign In". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  3. The International Dental Journal. International Dental Publication Company. 1894. p. 344. laura chase journal of dentistry.
  4. Genealogy of One Branch of the Descendants of the Thomas Eames' Family: Who Came from England about 1630, and First Settled at Dedham, Mass., in 1640. Brockway & Sons'Daily Times Print. 1887.
  5. "View Free Records with a Free Account". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  6. "11 Mar 1917, Page 70 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  7. "4 Sep 1890, 4 - Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  8. "2 Aug 1896, Page 21 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  9. "26 Jan 1890, Page 17 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  10. "2 Aug 1896, Page 21 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  11. Revolution, Daughters of the American (1901). Lineage Book. The Society. p. 311. laura eames henry chase.
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