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Les Soeurs Grises Of Lewiston, Maine 1878-1908: An Ethnic Religious Feminist Expression, Susan Hudson
Les Soeurs Grises Of Lewiston, Maine 1878-1908: An Ethnic Religious Feminist Expression, Susan Hudson
Maine History
Lewiston, Maine's first public hospital became a reality in 1889 when the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, the “Grey Nuns,” opened the doors of the Asylum of Our Lady of Lourdes. This hospital was central to the Grey Nuns' mission of providing social services for Lewiston's predominately French-Canadian mill workers. Susan Hudson explores the obstacles faced by the Grey Nuns as they struggled to establish their institution despite meager financial resources, language barriers, and in the face of opposition from the established medical community. Susan Pearman Hudson is a Ph.D. candidate at Catholic University of America and a member of …
Church Of The Brethren China Relief, Circa 2002, E. Joseph Wampler, D. Eugene Wampler
Church Of The Brethren China Relief, Circa 2002, E. Joseph Wampler, D. Eugene Wampler
Digitized Primary Sources
This compiled manuscript details work by Church of the Brethren missionaries and relief workers in China from 1918 to 1951. Missionaries and relief workers include Ernest M. Wampler, nurse Elizabeth Baker Wampler, Dr. Frederick Jacob Wampler, Rebecca Skeggs Wampler, Nettie Mabelle Senger, and Howard E. Sollenberger.
Work chronicled here includes relief in a 1918 bubonic plague outbreak in the Shanxi province, care in the 1920 – 1921 Great Famine in Northern China, work with Chinese road builders, missionary Nettie Mabelle Senger’s wool cooperative, several of Howard Sollenberger’s projects, relief during the Sino-Japanese War, the 1942-43 Henan relief effort, and postwar …
Railroad Women Tell It, Linda Niemann