Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1817, July 19 | Born, Knox County, Ohio |
circa 1833 | Attended Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio |
1837 | Studied nursing, Cincinnati, Ohio |
1847 | Married Robert Bickerdyke (died 1859) |
1861 | At start of Civil War distributed supplies to soldiers in Cairo, Ill., and worked to improve living conditions for the soldiers; named matron of military hospital there |
1862-1865 | Worked as agent for United States Sanitary Commission; set up field hospitals and cooked, cleaned, and nursed Union soldiers; traveled with the armies of generals Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman |
1866 | Resigned from duty as army nurse |
1866-1867 | Worked at Chicago Home for the Friendless, Chicago, Ill. |
1867-1869 | Operated boarding house, Salina, Kans., and campaigned to get former soldiers to move west to Kansas |
1870-1874 | Conducted missionary work, New York, N.Y. |
1874 | Returned to Kansas; secured relief for victims of grasshopper plague |
1876 | Moved to San Francisco, Calif., and got job at United States Mint |
1887 | Returned to Kansas |
1901, Nov. 8 | Died, Bunker Hill, Kans. |