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Adah Belle Samuel Thoms - http://www.nursingworld.org/hof/thomab.htm
A crusader for equal opportunities for blacks in nursing. She was one of the first to recognize a new field for nursing, public health.

Edith Cavell: A Norfolk Heroine - http://www.edithcavell.org.uk/
Profile of British nurse Edith Cavell who worked in Belgium in World War I. She was arrested for helping allied soldiers to freedom and executed by the German authorities.

Ellen Dougherty - http://www.ourregion.co.nz/theregion.php?category=history&subcategory=Our+People&articleID=184
Brief biography of the first registered nurse in the world.

Florence Guinness Blake - http://www.nursingworld.org/hof/blakfg.htm
Inducted into the ANA Hall of Fame in 1996. A distinguished pediatric nurse who strove to advance education in pediatric nursing.

Hall of Fame Inductee: Clara Louise Maass - http://www.nursingworld.org/hof/maascl.htm
From the American Nurses Association: Profile of one of the nation's most courageous nurses, Clara Louise Maass lost her life during scientific studies to determine the cause of yellow fever.

Helen Fairchild - http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent?file=ML_fairchild_bkp
Joined the American Expeditionary Force at the start of the U.S. involvement in World War I. Her wartime letters home provide insight into the hardships and unimaginable conditions combat nurses worked in.

Linda Richards - http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/richards.htm
Considered America's first trained nurse. A "Women of Courage" profile.

Mary Breckinridge - http://nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/AboutANA/WhereWeComeFrom_1/HallofFame/19761982/brecmx5517.aspx
Started the first rural health care system to provide nursing to the neglected people in southeastern Kentucky.

Mary E. Squire - http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/articleView.asp?pg=1&id=15639
Youngest nurse in Civil War. Newspaper interview of Mrs. Squire from the Sheygoyan Press, October 20, 1915.

Mary Eliza Mahoney - http://www.bridgew.edu/HOBA/Mahoney.cfm
A profile of the first African-American professional nurse.

Profile - Jane Delano: Innovator in Nursing - http://www.redcross.org/museum/registry/profile.asp?id=745
A pioneer in the American Red Cross Nursing Service.

Profile - Sophie Mannerheim - http://home.c2i.net/amd/finwomen/mannerheim.htm
A famous nurse known as pioneer of modern nursing in Finland. A Finnish stamp was dedicated to her.

Profiles in Caring: Lillian D.Wald - http://www.nahc.org/NAHC/Val/Columns/SC10-4.html
Biography of the founder of the Henry Street Settlement, the forerunner of the Visiting Nurse Society of New York.

Sally Louisa Tompkins - http://www.civilwarhome.com/tompkinsbio.htm
Opened one of the most successful hospitals during the civil war, returning more of its patients to the ranks than any other medical care facility. She was the only woman to hold a commission in the Confederate States Army.

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