Emily Elizabeth Parsons

Emily Elizabeth Parsons
BornMarch 8, 1824
Taunton, Massachusetts
Died1880(1880-00-00) (aged 55–56)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Burial placeMount Auburn Cemetery
EducationCambridge High School
Known forFounder of Mount Auburn Hospital
FatherTheophilus Parsons
RelativesTheophilus Parsons (grandfather)

Emily Elizabeth Parsons (1824 – 1880) was an American Civil War nurse, hospital administrator, and founder of Mount Auburn Hospital in Massachusetts. Her posthumous memoir, Fearless Purpose: Memoir of Emily Elizabeth Parsons, gives a rare glimpse of the American Civil War from a nurse's perspective as she describes her work tending to Union soldiers and managing the nursing staff at Benton Barracks Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.

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