DOC SUSIE

Susan Anderson earned her degree in medicine from the University of Michigan back in 1897 and became a licensed physician. She was one of the first women to practice medicine in Colorado, where her family from Kansas moved to. To find work, Anderson moved to Fraser, Colorado, and was the only doctor in town.

She was called “Doc Susie” by residents and she treated patients who get skiing injuries or pneumonia during the 1918 flu pandemic and other diseases. She even performed childbirth. Anderson died in 1960 at the age of 90, and in 1997, she was instated into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame.