together in Portland, Oregon. Shortly after, they moved to Skagway, Alaska, where they worked together for the next two years. While returning to Skagway by bicycle from Dawson, carrying with him gold within the runners of the sled his companions traveled on, Esther's youngest brother Frederick was murdered, with two other men, on Christmas Day of 1899 in the Klondike. The three corpses were found in the Yukon River after spring thaws (Fred's on May 30, 1900). George O’Brien was convicted for their murders by a Dawson, Yukon jury. He was hanged on August 31, 1901. To honor her brother, Esther and Emil named their son Freddie, who was born in 1901, and Edward named his son Frederick H Clayson. After drinking contaminated milk and suffering from Septic Peritonitis, Freddie died in 1908 at 7 years of age. Following her son's death, Esther opened another private practice in Portland then pursued further training in Berlin in 1909. Her husband Emil stayed in Alaska for work, where he died in 1911 during an encephalitis epidemic. Esther re-married a Portland businessman named George A. Lovejoy in 1912; their marriage lasted 7 years, and they divorced in 1920. Education Lovejoy was attracted to the field of medicine from a young age when she saw Belle Schmeer, a beautiful medical student at Willamette University, pass by her family's hotel every morning. As she walked to class, Lovejoy was constantly drawn to her professional and elegant aura. She was further inspired to enter the medical field in 1884 when she watched Dr. Callie Brown Charlton deliver her sister Charlotte. Dr. Charlton talked to Lovejoy about the medical field, explaining that she could make thousands of dollars a year in exchange for enjoyable work. Because of her lack of formal education and her family's struggles, the financial stability of the medical field furthered her interest. Although she considered a career in drama in addition to a career in healthcare, she ultimately chose to pursue medicine. Lovejoy enrolled in the University of Oregon Medical School in 1890; during her studies, she worked as a cashier in department stores to earn money towards her tuition. After graduating in 1894 with the H.A. Wall Prize, which highlighted her academic achievements, she officially became the second woman to graduate from the University of Oregon Medical School, and the first to practice medicine. Work outside of Oregon Alaska Lovejoy's husband, Emil,