"Countess Susan Guzman, seventy-one years of age, who had devoted her life to the relief of the sick, and who, as a nurse, had attended many of the prominent people of the country, including President Ulysses S. Grant, President Garfield, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Bancroft, the historian; Governor Cook, and Gov. A. R. Shepherd, of the District of Columbia; Admiral Crowninshield, and noted cases under former Surgeon-General Wayles, of the United States Navy, died at the Garfield Hospital last night....passed away in the place where she had been an angel of mercy to many sufferers....Among the first to benefit by the teachings of the civil war, before the day when the word "trained" nurse was coined, Countess Guzman ministered to the sick in the capacity of a nurse, and soon her fame and the news of her ability spread beyond Washington and she was called to other cities to assist in noted cases..."
Married about 1863, Felix Galeano Guzman, and widowed. They had one son, Edwin Felix Guzman, born about 1864.
"Countess Susan Guzman, seventy-one years of age, who had devoted her life to the relief of the sick, and who, as a nurse, had attended many of the prominent people of the country, including President Ulysses S. Grant, President Garfield, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Bancroft, the historian; Governor Cook, and Gov. A. R. Shepherd, of the District of Columbia; Admiral Crowninshield, and noted cases under former Surgeon-General Wayles, of the United States Navy, died at the Garfield Hospital last night....passed away in the place where she had been an angel of mercy to many sufferers....Among the first to benefit by the teachings of the civil war, before the day when the word "trained" nurse was coined, Countess Guzman ministered to the sick in the capacity of a nurse, and soon her fame and the news of her ability spread beyond Washington and she was called to other cities to assist in noted cases..."
Married about 1863, Felix Galeano Guzman, and widowed. They had one son, Edwin Felix Guzman, born about 1864.
Family Members
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Angelina Jauncey "Angie" Ketchum Budd
1833–1911
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Marinus Jauncey Ketchum
1834–1860
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Jesse Jauncey Ketchum
1836–1876
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Elizabeth Jauncey Ketchum
1838–1849
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Capt Edwin Nesbitt Ketchum
1843–1931
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Alfred Jauncey Ketchum
1845–1905
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Eleanor Jane Ketchum
1846–1870
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Agnes Stewart Ketchum
1847–1847
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Agnes Louisa Ketchum Edmunds
1851–1926
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