West Coast's first female M.D. lived in Oregon

Published: Dec. 8, 2020, 2 p.m.

After Bethenia Owens divorced the frontier slacker she'd married at age 14, she went on to become one of Portland's most influential and respected professionals. (Roseburg, Douglas County; 1870) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/H1008c_west-coasts-first-woman-doctor-Bethenia-Owen.html)