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
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch