Records of the American National Red Cross, 1881-2008, Historical Nurse Files, ca. 1916 - ca. 1959, Bowman, Josephine B.
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Bowman, Josephine Beatrice, 1881-1971
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Josephine Beatrice Bowman was the third superintendent of the United States Navy Nurse Corps. Josephine Beatrice Bowman was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on 19 December 1881. She graduated from nurses' training at the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1904 and soon enrolled with the American Red Cross Nursing Service. In the spring of 1908, Bowman took part in the first Red Cross disaster relief operation after a tornado caused extensive damage around Hattiesburg, Missis...