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Mary Waters was a native of Dublin who was a prominent nurse in the United States forces during the American Revolutionary War. She migrated to Philadelphia in 1766. She worked closely with Benjamin Rush and in 1791 he wrote notes for a planned biography of her. He praised her for her professionalism and her deference to doctors. [1]
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Brewer lived in New Brunswick, New Jersey, a British stronghold during the war. When stopped by General Israel Putnam's forces on her way out of the town in April 1777, she gave testimony about three supposed loyalist agents. Putnam apparently believed her to be trustworthy and decided to employ her as a nurse, writing to Governor William ...
1770s: Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, the mother of Andrew Jackson, treats and nurses sick and wounded Continental soldiers in American Revolutionary War on British prison ship, dying of cholera as a result. December 11, 1775: Jemima Warner was killed by an enemy bullet during the siege of Quebec. [3]
Eliza George (1808–1865), American Civil War nurse; Abigail Hopper Gibbons (1801–1893), abolitionist activist during the American Civil War; Annie Warren Gill (1862 –1930) President of the College of Nursing in 1927; Matron, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; Helen L. Gilson (1836–1868), American Civil War nurse
The Continental Congress’ productive visit to York in 1777 to 1778 prompted residents to primarily view York as a Revolutionary War town for centuries. ... suffered a nervous breakdown during ...
Margaret Cochran Corbin (November 12, 1751 – January 16, 1800) was a woman who fought in the American Revolutionary War. [1] On November 16, 1776, her husband, John Corbin, was one of 2800 American soldiers defending Fort Washington in northern Manhattan from 8,000 attacking Hessian troops under British command. Margaret was too nervous to ...
Anna Morris Holstein (née, Ellis; pen name, Mrs. H.; April 9, 1824 – December 31, 1900) was an American organizational leader, civil war nurse, and author. From 1862 until the close of the war, Holstein was engaged in the hospital service, and after the Battle of Gettysburg , she was matron-in-chief of a hospital in which 3,000 seriously ...