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Mary Eliza Mahoney, first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States; Hugh J. McLaughlin, mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts (1956–1959) Paul McCullough, comedian; Ann Frasier Norton, U.S. Navy sailor during World War I. First woman to be buried with full military honors; Henry Oxley, baseball player
Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States. In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing.
This new hospital opened a nursing school, the first in America. The first American trained nurse, Linda Richards (graduated 1873) and the first African American trained nurse, Mary Eliza Mahoney (graduated 1879) were both trained at the nursing school. The nursing school was closed in 1951.
Mary Mahoney may refer to: Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845–1926), first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States Mary Mahoney (physician) (1940–2021), Australian medical practitioner
First African American to graduate from a formal nursing school: Mary Eliza Mahoney, Boston, Massachusetts. [78] First African American to play major league baseball: Possibly William Edward White; he played as a substitute in one professional baseball game for the Providence Grays of the National League, on June 21, 1879. [79]
His grave reads: “The Heart and Voice of an Angel. The World is a Far Lesser Place Without You.” Died, of lung cancer on Feb. 6, 1998. Wikimedia Commons / MGM publicity still.
A 19-year-old soldier who was killed during World War II has been accounted for, military officials said Thursday. U.S. Army Pvt. Jeremiah P. Mahoney was assigned to an anti-tank company in Europe ...
Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926) 1976: first African American professional nurse in the U.S. [11] Mary Adelaide Nutting (1858-1948) 1976: the first nurse appointed as a university professor [12] Sophia French Palmer (1853-1920) 1976: co-founder and first editor of the American Journal of Nursing [13] Linda Anne Judson Richards (1841-1930) 1976