Sarah Loguen Fraser

Sarah Marinda Loguen Fraser, née Loguen, (January 29, 1850 – April 9, 1933) was an American physician and pediatrician. She was the fourth female African-American physician in the United States, and the first female doctor in the Dominican Republic.

The daughter of an abolitionist, Fraser grew up in a home that marked a stopping point on the Underground Railroad, where she learned to treat several injuries as a young girl. She began her formal medical education in 1873 at the Syracuse University School of Medicine, now the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. When she graduated in the spring of 1876, she became the fourth African American woman to earn a medical doctorate.

She met her husband, a chemist named Dr. Charles Fraser, through Frederick Douglass in 1877. After marrying him in 1882, they moved to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, where Charles owned a pharmacy. Fraser gave birth to her daughter, Gregoria Alejandrina Fraser, in 1883, and complications during childbirth left Fraser unable to conceive again. After her husband died in 1894, Fraser and her daughter moved to Washington, D.C., where she lived off-and-on until her death in 1933.