Mary Elizabeth Donaldson

Mary Elizabeth Donaldson (1851–1941) was an American physician.

Donaldson née Craker was born in Reedsburg, Wisconsin on January 12, 1851. In 1892 she graduated with a medical degree from University of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. She then moved to Boise, Idaho where she began a health sanitarium focusing on proper diet and exercise. With the success of that facility Donaldson opened another in Milton, Oregon, and a third in Portland, Oregon, By the turn of the century her health sanitariums were successful and she began to offer free treatment at her Idaho Sanitarium Institute in Boise.

Also at the turn of the century Donaldson and her husband Gilbert Donaldson established the Donaldson Home for the Aging where free care was provided to the elderly. as does the history blog "South Fork Companion".