Louisa Van Vleet Spicer Wright
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Louisa "Lutie"[1] Van Vleet Spicer Wright (1862–1913) was the first doctor in Clark County, Washington to have both a degree in medicine and a license to practice medicine having obtained both[2] upon graduating from what was then the University of Michigan Medical School at Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1885.[3]
She was born in Fern Prairie, Washington in 1862.[4] After finishing school, she taught in schools in Grass Valley, earning $25 per month and saving up for medical school.[4]
She went to the University of Oregon Medical College, and eventually transferred to what was then the University of Michigan Medical School at Ann Arbor, Michigan.[1] She graduated in 1885, at age 23.[1]