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Mary McCauley among the women who followed the army
Mary McCauley followed the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment. Her husband, John, was an artillery man. During the Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, on June 28, 1778, Mary hauled water to the cannon so the sponger could swab out the barrel. John collapsed during the battle, either because of a wound or the extreme heat of the day, and Mary immediately took his place at the cannon. She assisted in firing it with the rest of the crew for the remainder of the battle. -
Florence Nightingale. Founder of Modern Nursing
During the Crimean War, she and a team of nurses improved the unsanitary conditions at a British base hospital, reducing the death count by two-thirds. -
Clara Louise Maass
Clara Louise Maass was born on June 28, 1876 in East Orange, NJ. At 15, she began working at the Newark Orphan Asylum. She received $10 a month for seven days a week of work. When Clara was 17, she entered the Christina Trefz Training School of Nurses at Newark German Hospital, only the fourth such nursing school at the time in New Jersey and the first in Newark. She graduated in 1895, after two years of arduous training. In 1898, at the age of 21, she was named head nurse at Newark German Hosp. -
The Orange Memorial Hospital School was founded in 1882.
through the efforts of Dr. Thomas W. Harvey. Originally known as the Orange Training School for Nurses, the school was established to meet staffing needs for a growing Orange Memorial Hospital.The school was incoperated Dec 1 1884. -
Mountainside Hospital
In the summer of 1890, Margaret Jane Merewether Power of Montclair came upon a small child who had fallen from a third story window, and was in need of serious medical attention. Upset at the fact that there was no nearby health care facility, Mrs. Power called upon other ladies in her social circle, and vowed to work toward a solution to the problem. In 1891, a three-story building was purchased and prepared to care for patients. Dr. John J.H. Love was named the first President of the Hospital. -
Parker at Landing Lane founded in 1907
The Francis E. Parker Memorial Home was founded in 1907 by Henrietta Parker in memory of her late husband, Francis E. Parker. Driven by a lifetime of humanitarian pursuits, Mr. Parker believed that people suffering from chronic illness should be given the opportunity to live in a home-like environment with excellent and very affordable nursing care. -
VNA Health Group volunteers on June 24, 1912
VNA Health Group, the region's premier provider of community health services, began with a meeting of volunteers on June 24, 1912 at Brookdale Farm, the Lincroft, NJ estate of Geraldine L. Thompson. The young organization set out to improve prison conditions and achieve a more humane approach to public assistance. In the early years it successfully campaigned for a tuberculosis hospital (Allenwood Sanitarium), and was appointed agent for the NJ Tuberculosis League. -
New Jersey League For Nursing
The New Jersey League for Nursing offers educational programs relative to current health care issues to provide a forum for improving nursing practice and education -
New Jersey Governor Brendon Byrne declared May 6 as “Nurses Day.
1978 - New Jersey Governor Brendon Byrne declared May 6 as “Nurses Day.” Edward Scanlan,
of Red Bank, N.J., took up the cause to perpetuate the recognition of nurses in his state. Mr.
Scanlan had this date listed in Chase’s Calendar of Annual Events. He promoted the celebration
on his own.