Emily Elizabeth Parsons
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Emily Elizabeth Parsons (1824 – 1880) was an American Civil War nurse, hospital administrator, and founder of Mount Auburn Hospital in Massachusetts. Her posthumous memoir, Fearless Purpose: Memoir of Emily Elizabeth Parsons, gives a rare glimpse of the American Civil War from a nurse's perspective as she describes her work tending to Union soldiers and managing the nursing staff at Benton Barracks Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Born | March 8, 1824 |
Died | 1880 (1881) (aged 56) |
Burial place | Mount Auburn Cemetery |
Education | Cambridge High School |
Known for | Founder of Mount Auburn Hospital |
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Relatives | Theophilus Parsons (grandfather) |
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