Family Heritage : Jane Arminda Delano

Jane Addams is recognized as a social and political pioneer for women in America. In her biography, which later revealed her experiences in Hull House, she demonstrates her altruistic personality, which nurtured the poor and pushed for social reforms. Although many of Addams ideas were considered radical for her time, she provided women with a socially acceptable way to participate in both political and social change. She defied the prototypical middle class women by integrating the line that separated private and political life. Within these walls of the settlement house, Addams redefined the idea of ?separate spheres,? and with relentless determination, she

In 1917, Amelia and her mother took a trip to Toronto, Canada, even though, there was a war happening. Amelia saw wounded soldiers on her left and right. She knew she had to help in some way. So, she stayed in Toronto and became a nurse’s aid. This began her path down the medical and nursing road. After the war, Amelia started premedical nursing school in New York. (Lardner, 207).

The woman I interviewed was Teresa Hays, born July 22, 1948 in Pensacola, Florida during the baby boom era. She was an adopted child who grew up in the rural town of Cantonment, Florida. Her adoptive father was a southern, Baptist who valued hard work, faith, and family. Her adoptive mother was an Italian immigrant and

Nursing as a profession has faced many barriers over the centuries. One of the most defining barriers discussed in regard to the historical experience of nurses is the effects of its being considered, and for the most part being, work done by women. In evaluating nursing history it is necessary therefore to evaluate the ways in which society has evolved over time in terms of its views on the roles of nurses of women within the society and its institutions. In the U.S., the inception of nursing both as an occupation and later as a profession, has strong ties to the challenge of women's perceived role as a wife and mother whose sphere was solely domestic. In many ways, significant progress has been made from that time in what women and

One aspect of nursing that has changed since the early 1800’s is nursing education. There was no question about the credibility of the women providing care to soldiers after the war. For many years untrained nurses and consequently nursing students cared the sick without any supervision. In 1873, the need for educated nurses was sought but was opposed by untrained physicians who thought trained nurses would pose a threat to their jobs (Gary & Hott, 1988). “Nurses have evolved

Dorothea Orem is a notable figure in the nursing community, receiving several Honorary Doctorate degrees (McEwen & Wills, 2014). Orem was a member of the Board of Health in Indiana from 1949 until 1957 (McEwen & Wills, 2014). She received her first form of nursing education at the Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, DC. She continued to educate her self by attaining her master’s degree in nursing from Catholic University in 1945. Orem experienced nursing from both practical and educational perspectives,

Alice Magaw was born November 9, 1860, in Cashocton, Ohio. Besides her contribution to nursing, little is known about Alice’s personal life and what inspired her to enter the field on nursing. However, one can guess that she saw a demand for nurses and had a passion for caring for others. During this time period, nursing schools were incorporated into hospitals. Alice Magaw attended the Women’s Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago from 1887 to1889, around the time that nursing began to transform from a lower class occupation to a respectable profession. After graduation Alice worked as a private duty nurse in Chicago. In 1893, Alice began her work under Dr. William J. and Charles H.

In her early life she was a beautiful girl with long dark curls and flashy eyes. Many admirers came to the plantation just to enjoy the sunshine of her smile. She met James Long at her house when he came to see a sick soldier and when he met her he could not take his eyes off of her. Jane Wilkinson (maiden name) had lived the life of sheltered young daughter of well-to-do Souther parents. Her birthday was in Clark County, Maryland, in 1798.Born in a house called “the House of Trueman’s

The social, cultural and political history of America as it affects the life course of American citizens became very real to us as the Delany sisters, Sadie and Bessie, recounted their life course spanning a century of living in their book "Having Our Say." The Delany sisters’ lives covered the period of their childhood in Raleigh, North Carolina, after the "Surrender" to their adult lives in Harlem, New York City during the roaring twenties, to a quiet retirement in suburban, New York City, as self-styled "maiden ladies." At the ages of 102 and 104, these ladies have lived long enough to look back over a century of their existence and appreciate the value of a good family life and

Physical violence wasn’t the only hardship that she endured in her early life. Her family became severed when three of her sisters were sold to other plantations that were far away. A trader from Georgia approached interested in buying her youngest brother, but their mother successfully resisted, preventing further

Robert and Bessie Brown, who are the paternal grandparents of the author’s wife, made their home in Bradley, South Dakota, a farming community and rail hub on the eastern Dakota prairie. Bessie grew up on a farm near Bradley, whereas Robert, subsequent to service in the Great War, arrived in Bradley as a young adult seeking a livelihood by acquiring the community’s Ford dealership. After becoming husband and wife, they remained in the small town where the civic-minded couple took on leadership roles in their church and numerous service organizations. Foremost in Robert and Bessie’s lives were their four children: Mary, Robert, Eldred, and Verna. They nurtured their children through the challenging times of the Great Depression and, as they matured into adulthood, guided them through the turbulent years of World War II.

In the non-fiction book “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” by Harriet A. Jacobs and published in Boston in 1861. The author Jacobs was born into slavery in 1813, in a town called Edenton, North Carolina. Jacob uses the pseudonym Linda Brent to narrate her first person account. The book opens with Jacobs stating her reasons for writing a biography of her life story. Her story is agonizing and she had rather have kept it confidential, although she felt that by making it public that perhaps it might help the antislavery movement. A preface by Linda Child, states in the beginning of the book, “READER, be assured this narrative is no fiction. I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true” (Jacobs 5). I would like to explain the main themes in this story, they include family and community, dangers of slavery for women, motherhood, and altogether the corrupting power of slavery, religion, and last but not least perseverance.

Her friend went on a trip to India as a missionary nurse, and it aroused her interest in becoming a nurse herself. In the year of 1884 she started nursing school at Bellevue Hospital Training for nurses, which is in New York, and trained there until 1886. With her great performance in Bellevue, she went with Abram S. Hewitt to observe how he, an administrator, directed a citywide cleanup of sciatica. Then came 2 communicable disease outbreak happenings. In 1888 in Jacksonville, Florida, there was an epidemic of yellow fever. During this time of yellow fever, Miss Delano was a superintendent nurse at Sandhill’s emergency center. The next year, also as a superintendent, she was at the Copper Queen Mining Company Hospital by Bisbee, Arizona where she clashed with typhoid fever. Unfortunately, she was also getting plundered by Apache Indians.

History is defined as the study of the science of humanity in the past. It's a broad subject that spans over countless people groups throughout the years that the world has been around. Even before the times we have written word history was still being made, and it is still extremely important. We tend to forget that in our average day to day lives we are still making history. That all over the globe everyone is taking part in what might be in a history book someday.

Visiting home health nurses are a well-known profession and becoming more popular as time grows. The service of public health nursing was carried out on the frontier by nurses under the name of “Visiting nurse services” which were part of the late 19th century health reform out of ‘The Henry Street House’ in 1893, as discussed in the film “Nursing in America – A History of Social Reform”. They held many roles outside of nursing, those roles and missions and struggles will be discussed.