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* Add photo of Barsness in uniform
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Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 83, 86.
Lemay, Kate Clarke, “The untold story of women who risked their lives to do good – and get their rights,” CNN.com, August 16, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/16/opinions/suffrage-centennial-1920-world-war-i-doctors-represented-lemay/index.html
Faces of the American Medical Women’s Association: Dr. Nellie O. Barsness https://www.amwa-doc.org/faces/dr-nellie-o-barsness/
Beck, Melinda, “Why Suffragists Helped Send Women Doctors to WWI’s Front Lines,” History.com. https://www.history.com/news/wwi-women-doctors-suffragists-france
Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 23. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
PDF document with pictures and original documents https://history.army.mil/curriculum/wwi/docs/AdditionalResources/presentations/DrNellie.pdf
Gavin, Lettie. American Women in World War I: They Also Served. Boulder: (University of Colorado Press, 1997): 166-167, 171-172. https://www.amwa-doc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/11091600.pdf
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 72, 73, 77, 79, 83-84.
Beck, Melinda, “Why Suffragists Helped Send Women Doctors to WWI’s Front Lines,” History.com. https://www.history.com/news/wwi-women-doctors-suffragists-france
Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 15-16, 23. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
Born in Petrolia, Ontario, Canada. Parents Alexander Clark Edward and Jennie Gertrude Dawson https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104250761/mary-lee-edward
“Dr. Mary Lee Edward a Learning Woman,” Kappa Alpha Theta Magazine 129, no. 2 (Winter 2014-2015): p. 30. Find on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/2015Winter/page/30/mode/2up
“Dr. Mary Lee Edwards, Back From War Work, Brings Urgent Invitation,” New York Herald, July 19, 1919, p. 9. https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-dr-mary-lee-edward-touri/101383000/
“Canadian Women Plan Maple Leaf Dance for Jan. 23,” New York Times, January 9, 1970, p. 23. https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/09/archives/canadian-women-plan-maple-leaf-dance-for-jan-23.html
Dr. Mary Lee Edward Canadian Women’s Club 50th Anniversary, The Expositor, Brantford, Ontario, Canada, Janu 12, 1970, p. 16. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-expositor-dr-mary-lee-edward-canadia/101360615/
Women Leaders Memory Project, Ontario Medical Association, scroll down to Dr. Mary Lee Edward https://www.oma.org/newsroom/memory-project/women-leaders-memory-project/
The First Contingent of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals, Supported by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, NAID 533774. Dr. Mary Edward is 5th from the left. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533774
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 77, 79, 80.
Seitz, Emily A. “Womanhood of the Noblest Type: Early Medical Training for Women; The Distinguished Career of Dr. Marie Formad” in Prescribing Pregnancy Loss: Women Physicians and the Changing Boundaries of Fetal Life in Nineteenth-Century America. Dissertation. Pennsylvania State University. 2021. See pages 39-43. https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/files/final_submissions/24628
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 71, 76, 77 picture and caption, 78-79 picture and caption, 80, 86
Lemay, Kate Clarke, “The untold story of women who risked their lives to do good – and get their rights,” CNN.com, August 16, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/16/opinions/suffrage-centennial-1920-world-war-i-doctors-represented-lemay/index.html
Beck, Melinda, “Why Suffragists Helped Send Women Doctors to WWI’s Front Lines,” History.com. https://www.history.com/news/wwi-women-doctors-suffragists-france
Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 13, 23, 24. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 71.
Service de Santé, French Medical Corps
From the Desk of Jane Addams, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum https://www.hullhousemuseum.org/hullhouse-blog/2022/9/13/who-was-harriet-rice-zk2lx
Dr. Harriet Rice: First Black Resident at Hull-House, Jane Addams Papers Project https://janeaddams.ramapo.edu/2021/08/dr-harriet-rice-first-black-resident-at-hull-house/
Honoring the Trailblazers: Dr. Harriet Rice, 1887, Wellesley Alumnae https://alum.wellesley.edu/waad/news/latest-news/p/~board/waad-news/post/honoring-the-trailblazers-dr-harriet-rice-1887
Davis Museum at Wellesley College https://www1.wellesley.edu/davismuseum/whats-on/Virtual_platform/the-women-of-seed-to-harvest/node/180471
Dr. Harriet Rice, Gilded Age Newport in Color https://www.gildedageincolor.com/?p=91
Korr, Mary, “100 Years Ago – Dr. Harriet Alleyne Rice of Newport: The Struggles of an African-American Physician,” Rhode Island Medical Journal, Vol. 98 Iss. 1 (Jan 2015): 74-75. https://www.proquest.com/openview/0b420d145074d8d461c1c8382966d10d/1?cbl=24126&pq-origsite=gscholar&parentSessionId=XMSNTmS4piGr0axPbJcOB%2FvoYzsJHZkHQIeCEl2XIiY%3D
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* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 82.
Photo in Library of Congress collection https://www.loc.gov/item/2014688935/
Announcement of appointment as ambulance surgeon https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-commercial-buffalo-commercia/51269314/
“Stabbed, Reuses Fair Doctor’s Aid,” The Standard Union (Brooklyn, NY), 24 Jan 1911, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-the-standard-union-b/51264521/
“Saved Her Patient in Ambulance Crash,” The New York Times, February 8, 1911, p. 1.https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/02/08/106781405.html?pageNumber=1
Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 9, 23. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
“Doctors Composing Gas Unit, Women’s Oversea Hospitals,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 25, 1918, p. 20. https://bklyn.newspapers.com/paper/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/1890/
“Doctors of the Gas Unit of Women’s Oversea Hospitals” (photo and caption covering 2 pages) in The Woman Citizen, Vol 3 (October 19, 1918): 414-415. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000098651056&seq=424
Married Dr. Francis Julius Hupp on June 18, 1921. Marriage Announcement, The New York Times, 19 June 1921, p. 22. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
Died Oct 11, 1937 in Englewood, NJ. Death Announcement, New York Herald Tribune, 13 Oct 1937, p. 22A. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
Buried in Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston, Ulster Co, NY. Find A Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205525729/elizabeth-armitage-hupp
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 72, 73, 74 picture and caption, 77, 79, 83-84, 85.
Lemay, Kate Clarke, “The untold story of women who risked their lives to do good – and get their rights,” CNN.com, August 16, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/16/opinions/suffrage-centennial-1920-world-war-i-doctors-represented-lemay/index.html
Beck, Melinda, “Why Suffragists Helped Send Women Doctors to WWI’s Front Lines,” History.com. https://www.history.com/news/wwi-women-doctors-suffragists-france
“The U.S. female doctors who served in WWI,” American Women in World War I, March 9, 2017 https://americanwomeninwwi.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/the-u-s-female-doctors-who-served-in-wwi/
Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 3-5, 15-16, 23. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178814549/caroline-sandford-finley “Third Annual Commencement: Medical College in New York Graduate Twenty-six Persons-Interesting Exercises,” Cornell Alumni News, June 12, 1901, p. 1. Accessed April 15, 2024. https://ecommons.cornell.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/2f4494b0-011b-45a6-b260-86456dc579f6/content
See “Service with the Women’s Oversea Hospitals.” https://www.amwa-doc.org/service-in-the-war/
“Caroline Finely Dies; Famed as Doctor in War,” New York Herald Tribune, 29 Dec 1936, p. 16. ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Dr. Caroline Sandford Finley, Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178814549/caroline-sandford-finley
Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press, 2008): 104, 106.
* Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 72, 73, 75 picture and caption, 77, 83.
* Also spelled McMahon. Sometimes spelled Ada. Lived in Lafayette, IN
Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 82.
“Biography of Dr. Adah M. McHahan, 1869-1942," with a list of sources https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1010596187
Biographical sketch in The Golden Book, Indiana University, https://goldenbook.iu.edu/veteran-stories/mcmahan-adah.html
Indiana University and the U.S. Military, scroll to 1918 for Dr. Adah McMahan https://200.iu.edu/history/timelines/military-history.html
Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 9, 23, 24. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
“Doctors Composing Gas Unit, Women’s Oversea Hospitals,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 25, 1918, p. 20. https://bklyn.newspapers.com/paper/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/1890/
“Doctors of the Gas Unite of Women’s Oversea Hospitals” (photo and caption covering 2 pages) in The Woman Citizen, Vol 3 (October 19, 1918): 414-415. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000098651056&seq=424
Dunn, Jacob Piatt, Indiana and Indianans: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and the Century of Statehood, Volume IV (Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society, 1919): p. 1828-1829. https://books.google.com/books?id=3aL-ROKbefYC&pg=PA1828&lpg=PA1828&dq=%22dr.+adah+mcmahan%22+lafayette+indiana&source=bl&ots=7VN2LFMUOY&sig=ACfU3U0CB9arz_rwa98_x6lingU9CG1DGw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi45aSaiceFAxVSFVkFHaU7D3Q4ChDoAXoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=%22dr.%20adah%20mcmahan%22%20lafayette%20indiana&f=false
“Tippecanoe County Women to Know,” Tippecanoe County Historical Association https://tippecanoehistory.org/finding-aids/tippecanoe-county-women-to-know/
Kriebel, Bob, “Old Lafayette: World War I Takes a Toll Locally,” Journal & Courier, October 22, 2018. https://www.jconline.com/story/news/history/2018/10/22/old-lafayette-world-war-takes-toll-locally/1718938002/
Obituary, “Dr. Adah McMahon is Dead; Noted Doctor,” Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN), June 24, 1942, p. 1 & 10. https://www.newspapers.com/article/journal-and-courier-adah-mcmahan/25322696/ (page 1) https://www.newspapers.com/article/journal-and-courier/18564812/ (page 10)
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77440787/adah-mcmahan
* Clinton, MA
Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 82, 86.
Beck, Melinda, “Why Suffragists Helped Send Women Doctors to WWI’s Front Lines,” History.com. https://www.history.com/news/wwi-women-doctors-suffragists-france
Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 9, 23. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
“Doctors Composing Gas Unit, Women’s Oversea Hospitals,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 25, 1918, p. 20. https://bklyn.newspapers.com/paper/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/1890/
“Doctors of the Gas Unit of Women’s Oversea Hospitals” (photo and caption covering 2 pages) in The Woman Citizen, Vol 3 (October 19, 1918): 414-415. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000098651056&seq=424
Rimkunas, Barbara. “The life and times of Dr. Irene Morse,” Seacoastonline, February 15, 2018. https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/exeter-news-letter/2018/02/15/the-life-times-dr-irene/14788031007/
“Dr. Irene Morse Dead,” The Burlington Free Press, June 21, 1933, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-burlington-free-press-dr-irene-mors/41411376/
* Death notice
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bangor-daily-news-obituary-dr-barbar/61977949/
“They Were There: American Women Physicians and the First World War.” The Permanente Journal, Sept 8, 2020. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7849279/
Dr. Hunt’s report on AWH Hospital No. 1 https://doctordoctress.org/islandora/object/islandora:1868/story/islandora:2241#page/1/mode/2up
Photograph of Dr. Hunt https://wwionline.org/wwi-online/articles/not-waiting-call-american-women-physicians-and-world-war-i
“Capable and Progressive”: Women Flood Portland, July 1925. Maine History Society pdf. https://www.mainehistory.org/documents/85/newsletter_Winter2014-5.pdf
Dr. Barbara Hunt, consulting physician, in 1927 becomes the first woman to join the medical staff. https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/198/slideshow/235/display?use_mmn=1&format=slideshow&prev_object_id=457&slide_num=5
“Dr. Barbara Hunt kindly permitted our patients the use of radium” https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/198/slideshow/235/display?use_mmn=1&format=slideshow&prev_object_id=457&slide_num=6
Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press, 2008): 108.
Lovejoy, Esther Pohl. Certain Samaritans. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1927. Internet Archive. See pages 13, 20 (picture and caption), 21.
* Graduated from University of Buffalo Medical School in 1902
https://medicine.buffalo.edu/175/celebrating.html Scroll down yellow sidebar.
Portrait photograph from Library of Congress https://picryl.com/media/dr-louise-hurrell-director-american-womens-hospital-no-1-luzancy-france-seine-1c058f
Photo: Women’s Ward. American Women’s Hospital No. 1. Luzancy France. Dr. M. Louise Hurrell and Dr. Inez C. Bentley. https://loc.getarchive.net/media/womens-ward-american-womens-hospital-no-1-luzancy-france-dr-m-louise-hurrell-f11b8b
Photo: Executive Committee of American Women’s Hospital https://loc.getarchive.net/media/executive-committee-of-american-womens-hospital-no-1-luzancy-france-left-to-cba8dc
The American Women’s Hospitals in World War I France https://doctordoctress.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A1868
Dr. M. Louise Hurrell’s report to AWH Committee https://doctordoctress.org/islandora/object/islandora:1868/story/islandora:2208#page/1/mode/2up
Dr. M. Louise Hurrell’s February report on Luzancy Hospital https://doctordoctress.org/islandora/object/islandora:1868/story/islandora:2203#page/1/mode/2up
World Pays Tribute to Dr. Louise Hurrell https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-orlando-sentinel/29263455/
Not Waiting for the Call: American Women Physicians and World War I https://wwionline.org/wwi-online/articles/not-waiting-call-american-women-physicians-and-world-war-i
Ellen Singer More, Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1955. (Harvard University Press, 1999): 141-145.
Ellen More, “Rochester ‘Over There,’” Rochester History 51, no. 3 (Summer, 1989): 13, 23-27. https://www.libraryweb.org/~rochhist/v51_1989/v51i3.pdf
Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press, 2008): 110.
* Olga Stastny, Wikidata
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23618188
Dr. Olga Stastny, Biography, AMWA https://www.amwa-doc.org/wwibios/dr-olga-stastny/
Olga Stastny, Faces of AMWA https://www.amwa-doc.org/faces/dr-olga-stastny/
Marr MC, Dupanovic I, Sefcsik VZ, Mehta N, Chin EL. They Were There: American Women Physicians and the First World War. Perm J. 2020 Sep;24:1-4. doi: 10.7812/TPP/20.032. PMID: 33482940; PMCID: PMC7849279.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7849279/
The U.S. Female Doctors Who Served in WWI https://americanwomeninwwi.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/the-u-s-female-doctors-who-served-in-wwi/
“From the archives: Olga Stastny,” University of Nebraska Medical Center, Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library https://blog.unmc.edu/library/2016/05/16/from-the-archives-olga-stastny/
Andrews-Koryta, Stepanka. “Dr. Olga Stastny, Her Service to Nebraska and the World.” NEBRASKA HISTORY 68, no.1 (1987): 20-27.
Photograph, History Nebraska https://nebraska.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_7f0eeb4e-b0f7-4536-a8d9-4b0389bf4cd0/
Nebraska State Historical Society Collection Record https://history.nebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/doc_Stastny-Olga-Frances-1878-1952-RG2588.pdf
Czech Contributions to the Progress of Nebraska, Vladimir Kucera and Alfred, Novacek, Eds. Published 1976. See pages 152-154. https://www.unl.edu/czechheritage/contributions.pdf
Dr. Olga Frances Sadilek Stastny, Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96537310/olga-stastny
* Anne Tjomsland, Wikidata
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67695468
The U.S. Female Doctors Who Served in World War I https://americanwomeninwwi.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/the-u-s-female-doctors-who-served-in-wwi/
Anne Tjomsland,1880–1968, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXIV, Issue 4, October 1969, Pages 482–a–482, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXIV.4.482-a
Marr MC, Dupanovic I, Sefcsik VZ, Mehta N, Chin EL. They Were There: American Women Physicians and the First World War. Perm J. 2020 Sep;24:1-4. doi: 10.7812/TPP/20.032. PMID: 33482940; PMCID: PMC7849279.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7849279/
Cornell Rewind: A great school faces the Great War https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/01/cornell-rewind-great-school-faces-great-war
Anne Tjomsland, Bellevue in France: Anecdotal History of Base Hospital No. 1. New York: Froben Press, 1941. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b744766&view=1up&seq=11
Anne Tjomsland papers, Cornell University Library https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM02924.html
Authored The Saga of Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson: The Life of an Icelandic Physician of the Thirteenth Century, 1951 https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Saga_of_Hrafn_Sveinbjarnarson.html?id=SkhiygAACAAJ
This Millennial’s Alter Ego is a Forgotten Female Surgeon from WWI, https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-millennial-s-alter-ego-is-a-forgotten-female-surgeon-from-wwi
Gavin, Lettie. American Women in World War I: They Also Served. Boulder: (University of Colorado Press, 1997): 164-166, 171. https://www.amwa-doc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/11091600.pdf
