Annie Lowrie Alexander

Annie Lowrie Alexander (January 10, 1864 – October 15, 1929) was an American physician and educator. She was the first licensed female physician in the Southern United States. She was one of six children of John Brevard Alexander and Ann Wall Lowrie, descended from the Reverend Alexander Craighead and the Reverend David Caldwell. She was educated by her father and a private tutor.

Career Alexander enrolled in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania,

Alexander started her own practice and was an assistant teacher of anatomy at the Women's Medical College of Baltimore. She returned to Mecklenburg County in 1887 to practice medicine, and in 1889 she bought a home in Charlotte, North Carolina. She slowly built up her practice, making her rounds on a horse and buggy before purchasing an automobile in 1911.

Alexander worked as a physician at the Presbyterian College for Women (now Queens University of Charlotte) for twenty-three years. During Alexander's time in Charlotte, there were outbreaks of malaria and typhoid fever as well as a hookworm epidemic. and was appointed acting assistant surgeon at Camp Greene in Charlotte, where she performed medical inspections of the school children and grappled with the devastation wrought by the 1918 flu pandemic.

Alexander served as president of the Mecklenburg Medical Society and was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Charlotte Woman's Club, and the Daughters of the American Revolution.