Jane W. Pierson Papers

Collection

Identifier: RG 09-9.37

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

These are the papers of Jane Wilhelmina Pierson. Records include photographs, family and biographical information, documents and information regarding the Frontier Nursing Service, nursing items and memoribilia, a self-recorded audio cassette, and transcripts of self-recorded memories of her childhood and time with the Frontier Nursing Service.

Listen To Recording / Read Transcript

Dates

Other: Majority of material found in 1917-1952

Creator

Pierson, Jane W. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.

Conditions Governing Use

There are no restrictions on the collection other than federal copyright regulations.

Extent

2.00 ms_boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

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 for twenty-four years and retired in 1979. The part of her career that she most enjoyed telling stories about was her work with the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky. She drove a jeep over crude roads to reach her patients, often having to abandon the jeep and finish the trip by horseback (and sometimes on foot). Pierson died at the age of ninety-four in Monroe, Ohio.