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The Mercy Sisters worked as trained nurses during the Civil War, and after the war they took on the work of public health care. Need for expansion led to the Sisters of Mercy opening a 50-bed Mercy Hospital facility in Janesville in 1913, which eventually grew through renovation into a 150-bed facility by 1920. [3]
Mercy Health (Ohio and Kentucky), based in Cincinnati, Ohio; MercyOne (formerly Mercy Health Network), serving Iowa; Mercy Health System, based in southeastern Pennsylvania, merged into Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic; Mercy (healthcare organization), serving the St. Louis, Missouri area
Mercy Medical Center was founded by Father Roman Scholter, pastor of St. Mary's Church in 1891. He convinced the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother to come to Oshkosh and start St. Mary's Hospital. In 1895 the hospital moved into a four-story facility on the corner of Merritt and Boyd Streets which could accommodate 26 patients.
Mercy is an American nonprofit Catholic healthcare organization founded in 1871 by the Sisters of Mercy. [1] It is located in the Midwestern United States with headquarters within Greater St. Louis in the west St. Louis County, Missouri suburb of Chesterfield. Mercy is the seventh largest Catholic health care system in the United States. [2]
The area that became Janesville was the site of a Ho-Chunk village named Įnį poroporo (Round Rock) up to the time of Euro-American settlement. [6] In the 1825 Treaty of Prairie du Chien, the United States recognized the portion of the present city that lies west of the Rock River as Ho-Chunk territory, while the area east of the river was recognized as Potawatomi land.
The Town of Janesville is a located in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,665 at the 2020 census. The population was 3,665 at the 2020 census. The City of Janesville is located to the southeast of and adjacent to the town.
The first mayor of Janesville was A. Hyatt Smith, a pioneer lawyer who was Wisconsin's second U.S. attorney. The first city manager was Henry Traxler, a civil engineer who had previously served as the city manager of Clarinda, Iowa ; [ 1 ] Traxler was also the longest-serving city manager, serving nearly 28 years. [ 2 ]
Station advertisement (1936) [3] WCLO was originally licensed on August 24, 1925 to C. E. Whitmore, [4] broadcasting from Camp Lake, west of Kenosha.Its owner at that time was a real estate development company with a project called Camp Lake Oaks, from which came the call letters assigned by the government to the small 50-watt station.