Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a two-part series from the Evanston Women’s History Project chronicling the life and legacy of Alice Bunker Stockham. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 looks at the Evanston pioneering women who came after Stockham.
Leona Brandes Yeager
Like Alice Bunker Stockham, Leona Brandes Yeager gave guidance and medical advice to young people on the cusp of adulthood. Some of her patients, like Stockham’s, were soon-to-be brides and expectant mothers. Almost all of them were students at Northwestern University…