HIST 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Frontier Nursing Service, Stamford, Connecticut, Crescent College
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Nurse-midwife mary breckinridge was born on february 17, 1881, in memphis, Tennessee, to katherine carson breckinridge and clifton rodes breckinridge and established the frontier nursing service. Breckinridge"s father was an arkansas u. s. representative, and later served. Russia on and off as an american official. From 1896 to 1898 she attended the rosemont dezaley school in lausanne, Switzerland and from 1898 to 1899 she attended the low and heywood school in. Breckinridge obtained her early education from her governess in washington, D. c. breckinridge married henry ruffner morrison in 1904, and widowed her husband in 1906 when she died of appendicitis. Breckinridge vowed to become a nurse and in 1910 she graduated from new. York city"s saint luke hospital school of nursing. She came back to arkansas, where her parents lived, to look after her sick mum. There she met, and married richard ryan thompson, president of crescent. College and conservatory for young women at eureka springs, on october 8,
