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marschall-meusebach cemetery 7 july 1944 oakland , california , u.s. mason county , texas , u.s. 30 : us_type : landmark inline 29 0.96 n 98 59 52.08 w region german 27 november 1882 pioneer dentist leonie von meusebach -- zesch 1902.jpg leonie von meusebach -- zesch
 leonie von meusebach -- zesch arthur university a. dugoni school of dentistry northwestern university columbia
leonie von meusebach -- zesch

leonie von meusebach -- zesch -lrb- november 27 , 1882 -- july 7 , 1944 -rrb- was an american early 20th-century pioneer female dentist who practiced in texas , alaska , arizona and california .
she is also known as leonie von zesch or leonie zesch .
she was inducted into the alaska women 's hall of fame in 2012 .
she was a dental surgeon with the united states army following the 1906 san francisco earthquake .
her mother worked with the american red cross to document survivors after the disaster .
after recovery , she provided onboard dental services to members of both the united states pacific fleet and the united states atlantic fleet .
during the great depression , meusebach -- zesch provided dental care to enrollees and officers with the civilian conservation corps , and later to inmates at the california institute for women .
for four years , she practiced in her home state of texas , with an office in mason .
three years of her dental career were spent in arizona , where her patients included people from the hopi and navajo populations .
to accommodate patients who could not travel to her practice in winslow , arizona , she hooked her equipment to the back of her model t automobile and held mobile dental clinics around the state .
for fifteen years , meusebach -- zesch practiced in the territory of alaska , with offices at varying times in cordova , nome and anchorage .
to serve remote inuit villages , she traveled by airplane to islands in the bering sea .
she survived an airplane crash on her way to point barrow and tried to walk to kotzebue before being transported by an inuit .
throughout alaska 's interior , she traveled by dog sled to hold mobile dental clinics for both inuit and non-indigenous patients .
she crawled on her abdomen across thin ice to save sled dogs from drowning .
she and her assistant were stranded on one occasion , and were rescued by champion dog racer leonhard seppala .
