Catherine Roberts Frasier, the first woman graduate of Washington State’s College of Veterinary Medicine, returned to California after graduating and became that state’s first woman granted a license as a veterinarian.
6/17/1907 — Born in Eureka, California (Detail from photo of the 1933 WSC College of Veterinary Medicine graduates)
5/16/1925 – Catherine Elizabeth Gill wins second prize in the Educational Festival piano competition at Humboldt State Teachers College (Times-Standard [Eureka])
6/8/1925 – Fortuna High School list of graduates (Times-Standard)
7/31/1925 – Wedding announcement for Miss Catherine Elizabeth Gill of Fortuna and Richard Garvase Roberts of Eureka (Times-Standard)
8/8/1925 – Marriage notice: Richard Gervase Roberts (Pepperwood, employed in Eureka) & Catherine Elizabeth Gill in her home in Fortuna (Times-Standard)
11/1929 – “First Woman ‘Vet’ at State College” article (WSC The Alumnus)
9/8/1930 – Marriage listing of Catherine Elizabeth Gill to Stanley Robinette in Latah County Idaho (ID county marriage records)
1933 – “Elizabeth Roberts” (Junior American Veterinary Medical Association listing in Chinook 1933—returned to former last name since second husband had never gotten divorced from his first wife)
6/5/1933 – Catherine Elizabeth Roberts in WSC commencement program (Courtesy MASC)
1/20/1934 – Passing the California veterinary certification board as the first woman and with the highest score ever was picked up by the Associated Press (L–R: Oakland Tribune, Humboldt Times, San Francisco Examiner)
3/25/1934 – Announcement of opening practice at 1050 West Avenue, Eureka (article in Humboldt Times)
3/25/1934 – Announcement of opening practice at 1050 West Avenue, Eureka (advertisement in Humboldt Times)
3/27/1934 – Article of opening practice in Eureka (Santa Rosa Republican)
1/29/1934 – “Woman Gets License as Veterinary” article in LA Times
0/10/1934 – Announcement of moving practice to larger facilities at 2133 Fourth Street (Humboldt Times)
1/19/1936 – “Dr. Catherine Roberts becomes bride of Lew Wallace Frasier” (Humboldt Times)
1/21/1936 – Honeymoon listing (Times-Standard)
2/15/1936 – Veterinarians conducting the federal TB eradication program dinner (Times-Standard)
1/1937 – Dr. Elizabeth Roberts listing in Veterinary Alumni Directory (Washington State Alumni Pow Wow)
6/12/1938 – Cattle testing in Kneeland (Humboldt Times)
12/28/1939 – Veterinary services listing for Dr. Catherine E. Roberts, 4th & W, Eureka (Humboldt Times)
1950 – Census listing (Seventeenth Decennial Census of the United States) showing Catherine working as a federal inspector at a meat packing plant (Source: ancestry.com)
