Frontier Nursing Service newspaper articles, 1935-1940.

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Frontier Nursing Service newspaper articles, 1935-1940.

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Three newspaper articles profiling three members of the Frontier Nursing Service: Mary Breckinridge (founder), Dorothea Van Duyn, and Mrs. Edwin Allen Locke, jr. (Dorothy Q. Clark)

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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 ...

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...