Frontier Nursing Service Collection 1923-1970.

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Frontier Nursing Service Collection 1923-1970.

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This collection consists of correspondence, printed material, and photographs relating to the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) which was established in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge to provide nurse-midwifery services in southeastern Kentucky. Most of the correspondence is between Breckenridge and Berea College Presidents William J. and Francis Hutchins who at various times served on the FNS Board of Directors.

0.4 linear ft. (1 mss box)

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7633641

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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Berea College. Hutchins Library. Special Collections,

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Mabel Martin Wyrick is a writer and community historian from Corbin, Kentucky, writing on Whitley, Knox, and Laurel Counties. Her newspaper columns, which were variously titled, "Factual Folklore" and "Mabel's Fables", appeared in the London (Ky) Sentinel-Echo and Corbin (Ky) Times-Tribune. She also published a book entitled "If Quilts Could Talk, I'd Listen" (1988). From the description of Mabel Martin Wyrick Local History Collection 1854-1893. (Berea College). WorldCat record id: 5...

Frontier Nursing Service, inc

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Mary Breckinridge founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), originally known as the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies, in rural Leslie County, Ky., in 1925. A member of a distinguished Kentucky family, Breckinridge began her nursing career in 1907. Following the deaths of her two small children, Breckinridge became a spokeswoman for the Children's Bureau in 1918. After the First World War she affiliated with the American Committee for Devastated France and bega...

Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965

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In 1925, Mary Breckinridge founded the Frontier Nursing Service to provide infant and maternal care in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky. She was the granddaughter of Kentucky statesman and former vice-president of the United States, John Cabell Breckinridge. From the description of Letter, 1960, July 12. (Kentucky Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 38488930 ...