\u201cNurses are there when the last breath is taken, and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is more enjoyable to celebrate the birth, it is just as important to comfort in death.\u201d \u2014Christine Belle<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Throughout its storied history, Wheeling has been blessed with the dedicated service of numerous brave and caring nurses.<\/p>\n
Most were trained locally at the nursing schools associated with Wheeling Hospital<\/a>, and the City Hospital<\/a> (later Ohio Valley General Hospital and still later Ohio Valley Medical Center), as well as the lesser known and short-lived Haskins Hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n In recognition of National Nurses Month and Week, what follows is a sampling of just a few notables among these front line \u201cAngels of the Wards.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Sisters of St. Joseph first came to Wheeling, at the behest of Bishop Richard Whelan, in 1853, moving to Sweeney Mansion in North Wheeling by 1856 to the site that would become Wheeling Hospital. In 1864, during the Civil War, the Federal Government converted a wing of Wheeling Hospital into a \u201cPost Hospital\u201d and a few months later made the entire institution a general military hospital. The Sisters of St. Joseph were recruited as U.S. Army nurses. During the remainder of the war, the Sisters treated wounded soldiers from both Union and Confederate forces.<\/p>\n The youngest of their number who would go on to distinguish herself as a nurse, was Sister Mary Ignatius Farley<\/a>, born in Marshall County, Virginia, Dec. 5, 1841, to Irish immigrant farmers, Patrick and Catherine Farley. She was received as a Sister of St. Joseph in 1863.<\/p>\n One night, after her shift on the surgical ward, Sister Ignatius saw several of the other nuns sleeping on the floor of the sacristy using pillows stuffed with leaves. She later learned that the Sisters had \u201cgiven up their cots and bedclothes to another contingent of wounded soldiers for whom they had found space in one of the corridors.\u201d [See, for example: Coddington, R., Faces of Civil War Nurses<\/em><\/a>. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020, p. 285].<\/p>\n Along with Mother de Chantal, Sister Ignatius Farley was awarded the Grand Army of the Republic\u2019s Bronze Medal in recognition of their service.<\/p>\n Sister Ignatius Farley, who later served as night superintendent at Wheeling Hospital, died December 4, 1931. She was one day short of 90 years of age.<\/p>\n Her names appears on a Washington, D.C. monument erected by the Ancient Order of Hibernians<\/a> in 1924 to honor the \u201cNuns of the Battlefield,\u201d and her likeness is preserved in stained-glass at the Sacred Heart Church in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n \u201cThey comforted the dying, nursed the wounded, carried hope to the imprisoned, gave in His name a drink of water to the thirsty.\u201d -Inscription on \u201cNuns of the Battlefield<\/a>\u201d monument.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Wheeling\u2019s Mrs. Lydia Wilson Holliday was a hero of the American Civil War. \u201cAt first tap of the Drum for Lincoln\u2019s call\u201d as she would later write, she volunteered as a nurse at Camp Carlile<\/a> on Wheeling Island. As more wounded soldiers were brought to Wheeling\u2019s improvised military hospitals like Sprigg House and the Athenaeum, Mrs. Holliday recruited more women to serve as nurses.<\/p>\n At the age of 60, Mrs. Holliday left Wheeling to serve as an army field nurse at both battles of Winchester, Snicker\u2019s Ford, Kernstown, Fisher\u2019s Hill, Opequon, and Cedar Creek. Among the soldiers who witnessed her brave exploits within range of enemy fire, she earned a reputation as a fearless angel of mercy, a renown that would endear her to Union veterans nationwide.<\/p>\n \u201cMother\u201d Holliday, as she was affectionately known, refused compensation for her services as an army nurse, a fact that would make it difficult for her to collect a pension later in her long life. When she finally did apply at age 90, Dr. John Frissell<\/a>, assistant U.S. Army surgeon for Wheeling during the war, swore out an affidavit certifying Holliday\u2019s service and stating that she was \u201cthe best nurse in Wheeling.\u201d<\/p>\n A bill was introduced to finally secure her pension. It passed just two years before Mother Holliday did. When G.A.R. Commander Robertson visited with the pension voucher, Mother Holliday hesitated, asking him, \u201cCan I get married without losing it?\u201d When he said yes, she replied, \u201cI\u2019m glad of that. For I read in the paper\u2026where a couple were married, the groom being 103 and the bride 102. So you see, there is a good chance for me yet.\u201d<\/p>\n Mother Holliday was reportedly the oldest person in Wheeling when she died on Oct. 5, 1899 at age 97. Though the original funeral plans called for pallbearers to be selected from among her many grandsons and great grandsons, the family agreed to allow six Union veterans to serve instead. Members of the Holliday Post had requested the honor of carrying their beloved Mother Holliday to her final rest. She was, after all, \u201cone of themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n Born August 21, 1877 in New Matamoras, Ohio, Alice M. Young was the daughter of Benjamin F. and Elizabeth Jane (Penn) Young. By the early 1900s, Alice had moved to Wheeling to live with her sister Jessie (Mrs. Dr. Reed McColloch) Baird and family, finding work as a private nurse. She had brothers living in St. Clairsville, Steubenville, Pittsburgh, and Texas at the time.<\/p>\n According to the City Hospital Training School for Nurses graduate ledger, now housed in the Ohio County Public Library Archives, she graduated from that institution on May 9, 1901.<\/p>\n Opened in 1892 in conjunction with the City Hospital on the site of the Wheeling Female Seminary (later the Wheeling Female College ), it was the first nursing school in the state of West Virginia. It closed in 1988. On January 14, 1914, City Hospital became the Ohio Valley General Hospital.<\/p>\n Though one source indicates Alice served as a Red Cross nurse (Dock, L. et. al., History of the American Red Cross Nursing<\/em><\/a>, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922, p 1487), at some point after the outbreak of the First World War, Alice had apparently joined the U.S. Army nursing corps<\/a> and by late 1918 had been assigned to the hospital at Camp Sevier, a National Guard mobilization training camp located in Greenville, South Carolina. [See: Bond, D., A Half Century of Nursing in West Virginia<\/a>, 1907-1957. Charleston, WV : W. Va. State Nurses Assoc. 1957]<\/p>\n When the deadly \u201cSpanish Influenza<\/a>\u201d H1N1 pandemic ravaged U.S. Army training camps<\/a> that fall, Alice became one of the infected and was deemed \u201ccritically ill\u201d in late September 1918. After struggling for about a week, she developed pneumonia and succumbed<\/a> on October 4, 1918 at age 41. \u201cShe was well and favorably known by a large and influential clientele,\u201d the Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em> reported on Oct. 5, 1918, \u201cand the progress of her last illness was regarded with an interest that was well-nigh universal and was heart-felt.\u201d<\/p>\n Because of the influenza quarantine ordered by state and city health officials, a private funeral was held at her sister\u2019s home at 79-12th Street. Her body was then transported on the B.&O. railroad for internment at New Matamoras Cemetery. Wheeling Intelligencer<\/em>, Oct. 7, 1918, p. 9.<\/p>\n Engraved on her burial marker<\/a> is the Latin phrase \u201cDulce et decorum est \u2013 Pro patria mori\u201d which translates \u201cIt is sweet and fitting [or honorable] to die for one\u2019s homeland [or country],\u201d a platitude attributed to the Roman poet Horace and debunked as \u201cthe old lie\u201d by the poet Wilfred own in his 1921 anti-war poem, \u201cDulce et Decorum est<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Alice M. Young is the only female listed among Ohio County\u2019s First World War casualties by the West Virginia Department of Culture and History<\/a> in their West Virginia Veteran\u2019s Database. Her name can be found engraved on the West Virginia Veteran\u2019s Memorial on the grounds of the state capitol in Charleston.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Cecilia Catherine Coyne\u2019s long and influential career epitomizes the caring and empathy attributes that have come to characterize the nursing profession. In her 44 years as a nurse, primarily at Wheeling Hospital, she participated in the evolution and development of numerous medical procedures and technologies.<\/p>\n She was born November 11, 1923, in Bridgeport, Ohio, the daughter of Patrick and Mary Cloonan Coyne. She graduated from St. Joseph\u2019s Academy in Wheeling, then worked at Murphy\u2019s Five and Ten Store downtown to pay her way at the Wheeling Hospital School of Nursing, from which she graduated in 1945. Over the course of seven years of night classes, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing Education from Steubenville College in 1954.<\/p>\n Cecilia worked for many years as a registered nurse with Wheeling Hospital, beginning as a staff nurse on the women\u2019s surgical floor in 1945. A year later, she was promoted to head nurse on the men\u2019s surgical unit.<\/p>\n Later promoted to head nurse of Wheeling Hospital\u2019s intensive care unit, Cecilia oversaw the establishment, in 1962, of the first intensive care unit in the state of West Virginia, a 13-bed section featuring an intercom system, oxygen nebulizers, and other medical devices considered innovative at the time (Wheeling Intell., May 12, 1962, p. 9). Cecilia also helped establish the first coronary care unit in Wheeling and in the State of West Virginia in 1966, and founded a nursing in-service education program in 1969.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember well your conceiving of the idea of the first coronary intensive care ward at 109 Main Street, and what a contribution that was.\u201d -Regina Barberia, MD, in 1981 a letter to Cecilia Coyne<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In 1977, as the Director of Nursing In-Service Education at Wheeling Hospital, Cecilia, along with Dora Drake, RN, helped develop the \u201cPediatric Preview,\u201d a program designed to \u201crelieve youthful fears\u201d for children scheduled to be admitted to the hospital. The children were accompanied by family for tours of hospital room, labs, operating rooms, and the pediatrics department, all to help demystify the process and make it less frightening (Wheeling Intell. Feb. 15, 1977, p. 24).<\/p>\n Respected by her peers statewide, Cecilia was elected President of the West Virginia Nurses Association, serving from 1967-69. Following her 1989 retirement, she volunteered at Wheeling Hospital and was active with the Wheeling Hospital Nurses Alumni Association.<\/p>\n A dedicated parishioner of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Bridgeport, she a member of the Steubenville Council of Catholic Nurses, the Catholic Daughters of America, and the West Virginia Auxiliary of the Congregation of St. Joseph. Born in 1938, Beatrice Ann Prince Thomas was the daughter of North Carolina migrants who came to Wheeling during the Great Migration<\/a> in search of a better life. Ann\u2019s mother worked \u201cout the Pike\u201d for white families as a housekeeper. She often took young Ann with her because, as Ann put it, \u201cShe didn\u2019t want me to have to go out the Pike. She wanted me to get an education no one could take away from me.\u201d<\/p>\n Ann grew up during the Jim Crow<\/a> period of racial segregation, attending Lincoln School<\/a>. After the Supreme Court\u2019s Brown desegregation decision<\/a>, Ann left Lincoln, becoming one of the first African American students to graduate from Wheeling High in 1956. After graduation, Ann had a big decision to make. \u201cIf you think back,\u201d Ann said, \u201cwomen were teachers, nurses, or bookkeepers. The professions were not as wide open as they are today.\u201d Ann started working as an aide at the old North Wheeling Hospital. Ann decided to take the nursing school test. \u201cI took the test, but to this day, I don\u2019t know if I passed or not.\u201d The nun who was director of nursing called Ann to her office and asked, \u201cWhy would you want to be a nurse? You\u2019re a good nurse\u2019s aide.\u201d<\/p>\n Upset and disappointed, Ann told her parents what happened. Her mother said, \u201cWell, we\u2019ll go to OV (Ohio Valley General Hospital).\u201d When Ann pointed out that there were no black students at OV, her mother replied, \u201cWell maybe you\u2019ll be the first.\u201d Ann enrolled in the hospital\u2019s school of nursing.<\/p>\n Despite many obstacles, in 1959, Ann became the first African American to graduate from the hospital\u2019s school of nursing. Ann said she didn\u2019t think about the historical importance of her groundbreaking achievement while it was happening. \u201cI think maybe that came later\u2026By my doing that there were other African Americans nurses who went there and graduated.\u201d<\/p>\n Although the nursing diploma changed Ann\u2019s life dramatically, the world around her still had changed very little. Ann persevered. Throughout her journey, her inner strength and independent spirit kept her focused and determined to solve problems on her own. She did not rely upon those in authority. For example, Family members of white patient\u2019s sometimes asked Ann to \u201cGo get the nurse.\u201d When this happened Ann took a deep breath, looked them in the eye and calmly stated, \u201cI am the nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n Ann worked at Ohio Valley General Hospital for 12 years, then as an Ohio County school nurse for 30 more beginning in 1971. She started at Clay School and Lincoln School.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been an interesting life,\u201d Ann reflected. \u201cI think being a nurse\u2014when it gets to the nitty-gritty, we all bleed the same way, we all have the same physical problems, and it has nothing to do with what color or what race someone is. And we are all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n -All information from the author\u2019s personal interview with Ann Thomas, 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n A 1962 graduate of Wheeling Hospital\u2019s School of Nursing, Eleanor Brzozowski DiProsperis started working on the new Intensive Care Unit with Head Nurse Cecilia Coyne (see above). She worked as an Intensive Care Unit and Cardiac Care Unit staff nurse for 12 years, earning a BSN degree from West Liberty College in the 1970s.<\/p>\n Wheeling Hospital\u2019s Director of Nursing, Sister Christine later asked Eleanor to take over as Head Nurse of Two Center, a large Medical-Surgical Unit.<\/p>\n When the hospital moved from North Wheeling to its current location in 1975, Eleanor was made Head Nurse of the IMU ( Intermediate Care Unit), helping to transition it into a 43-bed telemetry unit (for monitoring cardiac patients), where she cared for acutely ill patients. She served in that capacity for 16 years, meanwhile earning certification in nursing administration from the American Nurses Association.<\/p>\n Eleanor earned a Masters in Nursing degree from West Virginia University in 1987 graduating with her daughter Lisa (BSN), a first for WVU. Eleanor had the honor of serving as flag bearer for the School of Nursing at the graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n After passing the exam, she left IMU to become a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Wheeling Hospital. She was called to all departments whenever a patient\u2019s condition was changing. \u201cI guess I was the one-man Rapid Response Team at that time,\u201d she recalls, with humor. She also worked as Patient Care Coordinator and Supervisor of the Critical Care Areas. Eleanor worked as a CPR instructor and was named volunteer of the year for West Virginia by the American Heart Association.<\/p>\n Having done several mission trips to southern West Virginia to care for uninsured patients, in the late 1990s, Eleanor made several trips to Pignon, Haiti, a poverty-stricken area where people lived in mud huts with no electricity or running water, to help train nurses. \u201cThis was my most humbling experience as a nurse,\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n She was also chosen to travel with other nurses to China in 2000 for the first US-China Nursing Conference, where she lectured through an interpreter on cardiovascular nursing and China and Asked about her favorite memory, Eleanor replied, \u201cI think the most rewarding experience is keeping the patient\u2019s needs first and seeing a patient who was extremely sick get better or knowing that you helped revive a patient whose heart had stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n Her worst memories were associated with the flood at the new hospital building in 1975. \u201cWhen you knew that your patients lives lay in the balance and you were responsible for 43 patients, making the rounds to each, giving reports to doctors for each, making decisions to transfer the patient or send them home. Just carrying patients down steps was frightening during the flood. These were monumental decisions. But all patients were triaged correctly and a difficult situation turned out well.\u201d<\/p>\n Her last title was Director of Clinical Peer Review.<\/p>\n Nurse Eleanor Brzozowski DiProsperis worked her entire 47 year career at Wheeling Hospital, retiring in 2009.<\/p>\n -All information from the author\u2019s personal interview with Eleanor Brzozowski DiProsperis, May 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n Mary Anne Duffy graduated from Wheeling Hospital\u2019s School of Nursing on June 17, 1962. She started the following Monday at Wheeling Hospital in North Wheeling on the Labor and Delivery floor, where she would work for the next 45 years. During her long career, Mary Anne attended deliveries of (or delivered essentially on her own) countless thousands of babies. To this day, she is regularly recognized in public by mothers for whom she provided care.<\/p>\n Mary Anne is thankful to have had a career doing one of the happiest nursing jobs, and cherishes her memories of joyful parents getting excited when they saw their babies. \u201cWe all cried tears of joy,\u201d she recalls. Of course, not all the days were happy. Some deliveries were difficult, and some babies were stillborn. The biggest challenge of her career came when the hospital had 24 babies delivered in one 24-hour period, 6 of which were Caesarian sections. \u201cWe had mothers in the hallways with monitors,\u201d Mary Anne recalled. \u201cWe had to work non-stop to take care of all of them. Everyone had to work over and we had to call in more nurses.\u201d<\/p>\n Mary Anne retired from nursing in 2007, but continues to volunteer at Wheeling Hospital.<\/p>\n -All information from the author\u2019s personal interview with Mary Anne Duffy, May 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n Founded in 1886 by Thomas M. Haskins, M. D., the 25-bed Haskins Hospital was located at 3327 to 3333 Eoff Street. An Annex was added to the building in 1900, which allowed room for parlors, a Turkish bath with massage artist, a fully stocked drug store, operating rooms (including a marble one), four large wards, a library, a horse-drawn ambulance, and a nursing school (above: nurses in class for a lecture by Dr. Gilmore).<\/p>\n After 29 years of business, Haskins Hospital closed June 1, 1915. -OCPL Archives.<\/p>\n Now housed in the Archives of the Diocese of Wheeling Charleston<\/a>, several artifacts from Cecilia Coyne\u2019s nursing career, including a uniform, cape, hats, and several photographs, are on exhibit at the Ohio County Public Library.<\/p>\n The exhibit also includes artifacts from the career of Nurse Eleanor Brzozowski DiProsperis, as well as several artifacts from the Ohio Valley Medical Center School of Nursing Collection, 1860-1988<\/a>, now housed in the library archives.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Do you recognize any of these people? These are all historic photos<\/a> of Wheeling people, places, and things that need to be identified. Weelunk<\/a>, Archiving Wheeling, and the Ohio County Public Library Archives have teamed up to reach out to Wheeling area residents or people that have lived in the Wheeling area at any time\u2014we need your help identifying the individuals in these photos.<\/p>\n This is an ongoing monthly project to connect today\u2019s Wheeling community to its historical resources and stories. In honor of National Nurses Month, our May History Mystery selections feature nurses from the Ohio Valley Medical Center and Wheeling Hospital.<\/p>\n The Ohio Valley Medical Center School of Nursing collection includes artifacts and documents that were used in the historical displays at the hospital, such as brochures, photographs, medical equipment, yearbooks, awards and other material. Many of the photographs correspond to those featured in the yearbooks, but many are unidentified. 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\nAngel of the Wards \u2013 Sister Mary Ignatius Farley, SJ<\/h3>\n
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\nAt First Tap of the Drum for Lincoln\u2019s Call \u2013 Lydia Wilson \u201cMother\u201d Holliday<\/h3>\n
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\nShe Gave All \u2013 Alice M. Young, U.S. Army Nurse, WWI<\/h3>\n
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\nNurse Educator & Innovator \u2013 Cecilia Catherine Coyne<\/h3>\n
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\nCecilia Catherine Coyne died February 20, 2009 at age 85, and is buried at St. Anthony Cemetery in Blaine, Ohio.
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\nWe All Bleed the Same \u2013 Ann Thomas<\/h3>\n
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\nKeeping Patients First \u2013 Nurse Eleanor Brzozowski DiProsperis<\/h3>\n
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\nThe Happiest Floor \u2013 Labor and Delivery Nurse Mary Anne Duffy<\/h3>\n
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\nHaskins Hospital Nurses<\/h3>\n
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\nNurses Month Exhibit<\/h3>\n
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\nHelp Us Solve History\u2019s Mysteries: Nursing Edition<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nTuesday, May 11 @ Noon on LWB Livestream: A Celebration of Nurses!<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nWatch the recording of the program HERE.<\/a><\/h2>\n
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