L. Eudora Ashburne

Lydia Eudoria Ashburne Evans ( – January 14, 1992) was an African-American woman physician.

Biography

Ashburne was born around 1887. She grew up in Bowers Hill, Virginia and was part of a big family with fourteen siblings. Her parents had been formerly enslaved people. Ashburne graduated from Norfolk Mission College in 1908 and went on to earn her medical degree from Howard University Medical School in 1912. Ashburne briefly practiced medicine in Virginia before she moved to Chicago and began working there in 1916. Ashburne worked as a physician for around 65 years and provided charity work for many people in Chicago. Ashburne created the South Side office of the United Cerebral Palsy. Later in life, she married Theodore R. P. Evans. She died on January 14, 1992, in Hyde Park.

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Letter from Dr. L. Eudora Ashburne to Mabel K. Staupers, 1941, March 23

1880s births

1992 deaths

American centenarians

African-American women physicians

20th-century American women physicians

Howard University College of Medicine alumni

Physicians from Chicago

Women centenarians

People from Chesapeake, Virginia

20th-century African-American physicians

20th-century African-American women

19th-century African-American women

19th-century African-American physicians

19th-century American physicians

African-American centenarians

20th-century American physicians