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'''Elizabeth Avery Eggert''' (1848-1935) was a [[Homeopathy|homeopathic physician]], businesswoman and an activist who helped women in [[Oregon]] obtain the right to vote. She contributed to the nationwide reform of public health, philanthropy and suffrage for women during the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.<ref name=":0"></ref><ref></ref>
== Early life and education ==
Eggert was born Elizabeth Avery<ref name=":1"></ref> in [[Oxfordshire]], [[England]] in 1848, but moved with her family to the United States at the age of five. Living in [[Connecticut]], she attended the [[Ipswich Female Seminary]] in [[Massachusetts]]. At the end of the 1860s she graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College for Women.<ref name=":0" />
== Career ==
She established a homeopathic medical practice in [[Lawrence, Kansas|Lawrence]], [[Kansas]], and in 1872 became a member of the Kansas Homeopathic Medical Society, the first woman to be admitted to any medical society in Kansas. She served later as the society's corresponding secretary.<ref name=":0" />
In September 1873 she married businessman Frederick Eggert (May 30, 1843-April 26, 1918), from [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].<ref name=":1" /> Together the couple moved to [[Albany, Oregon|Albany]], Oregon. Frederick worked in the [[Dry goods|dry goods]] business, until they moved to [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] in 1882. There they opened a boot and shoe store, Eggert, Young & Company. The company grew branches across the [[Pacific Northwest]] while Frederick continued to manage the Portland store until his death in 1918. Elizabeth was the vice president of the Eggert-Young Company in Portland.<ref name=":0" />
== Suffragist ==
Eggert worked on the issue of women's voting rights for about twenty-five years. She was the president of the Portland Woman's Club during the last campaign in 1912, when she served on the Suffrage Campaign Committee as a frequent speaker and organizer for the movement. She was praised by the editors of the ''[[Woman's Journal]]'', the weekly magazine of the [[National American Woman Suffrage Association]], saying she was effective and influential for the campaign.<ref name=":0" />
== References ==
[[Category:1848 births]]
[[Category:1935 deaths]]
[[Category:American suffragists]]
[[Category:Progressive Era in the United States]]
[[Category:People from Portland, Oregon]]
[[Category:American homeopaths]]
== Early life and education ==
Eggert was born Elizabeth Avery<ref name=":1"></ref> in [[Oxfordshire]], [[England]] in 1848, but moved with her family to the United States at the age of five. Living in [[Connecticut]], she attended the [[Ipswich Female Seminary]] in [[Massachusetts]]. At the end of the 1860s she graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College for Women.<ref name=":0" />
== Career ==
She established a homeopathic medical practice in [[Lawrence, Kansas|Lawrence]], [[Kansas]], and in 1872 became a member of the Kansas Homeopathic Medical Society, the first woman to be admitted to any medical society in Kansas. She served later as the society's corresponding secretary.<ref name=":0" />
In September 1873 she married businessman Frederick Eggert (May 30, 1843-April 26, 1918), from [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].<ref name=":1" /> Together the couple moved to [[Albany, Oregon|Albany]], Oregon. Frederick worked in the [[Dry goods|dry goods]] business, until they moved to [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] in 1882. There they opened a boot and shoe store, Eggert, Young & Company. The company grew branches across the [[Pacific Northwest]] while Frederick continued to manage the Portland store until his death in 1918. Elizabeth was the vice president of the Eggert-Young Company in Portland.<ref name=":0" />
== Suffragist ==
Eggert worked on the issue of women's voting rights for about twenty-five years. She was the president of the Portland Woman's Club during the last campaign in 1912, when she served on the Suffrage Campaign Committee as a frequent speaker and organizer for the movement. She was praised by the editors of the ''[[Woman's Journal]]'', the weekly magazine of the [[National American Woman Suffrage Association]], saying she was effective and influential for the campaign.<ref name=":0" />
== References ==
[[Category:1848 births]]
[[Category:1935 deaths]]
[[Category:American suffragists]]
[[Category:Progressive Era in the United States]]
[[Category:People from Portland, Oregon]]
[[Category:American homeopaths]]
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