Harriet Beecher Conant

Harriet Beecher Conant (June 10, 1852 – August 22, 1941) was an American medical doctor who was the resident physician in the South Dakota Hospital for the Insane in Yankton, South Dakota.

Early life Harriet Beecher Conant was born in 1852 in Greensboro, Vermont. Her father, Ebenezer Tolman Conant, was a lifelong resident of that town. His immediate ancestors were natives of Hollis, New Hampshire, and he was a descendant of Roger Conant, one of the first five settlers of Salem, Massachusetts, and were of Puritan descent. Her maternal ancestors were among the early inhabitants of Londonderry, New Hampshire, which was settled by a colony of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in 1719. Her mother's name was Mary Jane Fisher. Through the influence of the dean, she received the appointment of resident physician in the South Dakota Hospital for the Insane in Yankton, South Dakota, the day after receiving her diploma. She died in Minnesota in 1941.