Born in Wisconsin and an 1893 graduate of Burlington (Wis.) high school, Florence M. Patterson received her A.B. from Northwestern University in 1897 and was graduated in 1907 from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She was for some time assistant superintendent of nurses of the Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa. After intensive post-graduate instruction at Teachers College, New York, and at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, she did medical social service work and public health nursing in Chicago and Boston. In June 1917, she joined the staff of the American Red Cross at its National Headquarters in Washington, D.C., but was released the following month to act as chief nurse of the first American Red Cross Commission for Roumania. The Roumania unit was recalled from the Balkans in June 1918, and Miss Patterson was then assigned to the American Red Cross' Paris headquarters. She later returned to Roumania with the second Red Cross Commission as its chief nurse and assistant director of civilian relief. For her work in Roumania and France, Miss Patterson received Roumania's Regina Maria Cross and France's Medal of Honor for Epidemics. She was also decorated by the Japanese Red Cross with its special Florence Nightingale medal.
In the mid-1920s Miss Patterson became General Director of the Community Health Association in Boston, Mass. While serving in that position, she received an honorary master of arts degree from Northwestern University in 1934.
-- Adapted from Lavinia L. Dock's History of American Red Cross Nursing (published in 1922) and other sources.
In the mid-1920s Miss Patterson became General Director of the Community Health Association in Boston, Mass. While serving in that position, she received an honorary master of arts degree from Northwestern University in 1934.
-- Adapted from Lavinia L. Dock's History of American Red Cross Nursing (published in 1922) and other sources.
Born in Wisconsin and an 1893 graduate of Burlington (Wis.) high school, Florence M. Patterson received her A.B. from Northwestern University in 1897 and was graduated in 1907 from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She was for some time assistant superintendent of nurses of the Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa. After intensive post-graduate instruction at Teachers College, New York, and at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, she did medical social service work and public health nursing in Chicago and Boston. In June 1917, she joined the staff of the American Red Cross at its National Headquarters in Washington, D.C., but was released the following month to act as chief nurse of the first American Red Cross Commission for Roumania. The Roumania unit was recalled from the Balkans in June 1918, and Miss Patterson was then assigned to the American Red Cross' Paris headquarters. She later returned to Roumania with the second Red Cross Commission as its chief nurse and assistant director of civilian relief. For her work in Roumania and France, Miss Patterson received Roumania's Regina Maria Cross and France's Medal of Honor for Epidemics. She was also decorated by the Japanese Red Cross with its special Florence Nightingale medal.
In the mid-1920s Miss Patterson became General Director of the Community Health Association in Boston, Mass. While serving in that position, she received an honorary master of arts degree from Northwestern University in 1934.
-- Adapted from Lavinia L. Dock's History of American Red Cross Nursing (published in 1922) and other sources.
In the mid-1920s Miss Patterson became General Director of the Community Health Association in Boston, Mass. While serving in that position, she received an honorary master of arts degree from Northwestern University in 1934.
-- Adapted from Lavinia L. Dock's History of American Red Cross Nursing (published in 1922) and other sources.
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