Madeira, Edith, 1865-1951

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Edith Madeira, the daughter of Louis and Adeline Madeira, was born in 1865 in Philadelphia. In 1900, Madeira obtained a nursing degree from John Hopkins Hospital Training School in Baltimore, Maryland. She served as a nurse superintendent for Howard Hospital in Philadelphia and Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, New Jersey. Madeira also served as a public health nurse and was superintendent of the Visiting Nurse Association in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Waterbury, Connecticut. She died in 1951.

From the description of Edith Madeira Papers, 1900-1951 bulk 1917-1919. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 297184823

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Birth 1865

Death 1951

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