U.S. National Institutes of Health

Minnie Frances Hayden Howard, MD — general medicine

Courtesy Idaho State Historical Society, photograph number 68-105.8

Dr. Minnie Howard (1872–1965), one of very few women physicians practicing in the American West in the early 20th century, became known as one of Idaho’s most energetic and influential women. In 1907, she and her husband helped establish Pocatello General Hospital there.

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