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Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.

 Organization

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0021 SAA 020
Abstract The E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund was incorporated June 27, 1922, by Edward O. Robinson, Frederick W. Mowbray, Edward C. O'Rear, and W.H. Hyden. That year Robinson had retired from the presidency of the Mowbray-Robinson Lumber Company in Cincinnati, where he had made a fortune in the World War I lumber boom. Robinson and Mowbray entered the lumber business in 1908 with the purchase of approximately 16,000 acres of timberland in eastern Kentucky's Breathitt, Knott, and Perry counties. ...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1922-1978

Frontier Nursing Service collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0015 SAA 014
Abstract

The collection is comprised of correspondence, printed materials, articles, clippings and photographs relating to Kentucky's Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) and its founder, Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965).

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1923 - 1988

Jane W. Pierson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.37
Abstract Jane Wilhelmina Pierson was born in Ohio on July 24, 1917, the daughter of William and Barbara (Ries) Pierson. In 1939, she graduated from Mercy School of Nursing and later completed Midwifery training in the Frontier Nursing Service (1952). After working for five years in the maternity ward at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, she served for two years as a frontier nurse on horseback in the Bull Creek, Kentucky area. After serving as a frontier nurse, Pierson worked at the Berea Hospital...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1917-1952

Settlement Institutions of Appalachia Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0038 SAA 036
Abstract The Settlement Institutions of Appalachia (SIA) was founded in 1970 as a non-profit consortium of private service institutions in South Central Appalachia. Leaders of the twelve founding institutions envisioned it as a mechanism to facilitate exchange of ideas, cooperation in program development and fund raising. The first executive committee of the board of directors consisted of Chairman, John Ramsay - John C. Campbell Folk School; vice-chairman, Robert Fulton - Henderson Settlement;...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1982

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Appalachian Region. 2
Nursing -- Ky -- History. 2
Nursing. 2
Rural schools -- Kentucky -- History. 2
Appalachia -- Education. 1