![]() Clara was a charter member of the Arizona Optometric Association, served as the first female State President in 1926 and worked in this capacity to improve the optometry profession in Arizona. The Schells traveled widely throughout southern Arizona and Sonora, Mexico to provide optometric care in rural areas lacking such medical resources. At age 30 she became the first female optometrist in Arizona Territory at a time when Arizona’s optometric and general medical care was still in a relatively undeveloped professional state. When she graduated in 1902 she returned to Arizona to practice optometry with her husband in their Tucson firm of Schnell and Schnell. In 1900 Clara enrolled in Northern Illinois College of Ophthalmology and Optometry. ![]() She and her husband moved in Arizona in 1898 where he practiced optometry. ![]() ![]() Schell was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1872. ![]()
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