Guide to the Lini M. De Vries Papers, 1940s-2009
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De Vries, Lini M.
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An author, public health nurse, and teacher. Lini Moerkerk de Vries (1905-1982), worked as chief of American Hospital Number 3 on the Madrid-Valencia Road during the Spanish Civil War. She later organized health clinics in New Mexico, California and Puerto Rico. Accused of being a subversive on account of her early affiliation with the Communist Party, she left the U.S. in 1949 for Mexico. She taught medicine and public health to Indians in the Papaloapan River Basin in Oaxaca; taught anthropolo...
Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy
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Martin, Fredericka Imogene, 1905-1992
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Fredericka (Freddie) Imogene Martin (1905-1992) was a writer, historian, and nurse who served as a chief nurse and medical administrator during the Spanish Civil War. Martin was born in Cooperstown, New York on June 2, 1905. Her father died in an accident before her birth and when she was five her mother remarried. They moved to Oneonta, New York where Martin -- a spirited child by her own account -- grew up in a warm and indulgent family. Following high school, she lived and worked with the St....
