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

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

Hall of Fame Inductee: Clara Louise Maass  
   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.
   http://www.nursingworld.org/hof/maascl.htm

Sally Louisa Tompkins  
   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.
   http://www.civilwarhome.com/tompkinsbio.htm

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

Spotlight - Jo Anne Ashley  
   A nurse, author and educator. She was a staunch advocate of the role of nursing in the health field, power in nursing and the historic perspective of nursing.
   http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/history/spotlight.htm

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

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

Leaders of the American Red Cross  
   Profiles of founder Clara Barton and subsequent leaders of the organization.
   http://www.redcross.org/museum/vmuseum/leaderbios.html

Edith Cavell: A Norfolk Heroine  
   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.
   http://www.edithcavell.org.uk/

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

Military Nurses of Canada  
   A profile of The Lady Nelson - a Canadian hospital ship. An excerpt from Volume II of the Military Nurses of Canada. Ruth (Littlejohn) McIlrath's recollections of the army nurses who had staffed this ship during the war.
   http://www.addison.ca/military_nurses/

Edith Cavell  
   A British nurse executed during the First World War. A statue in St. Martin's Place, just off London's Trafalgar Square, bears the words, 'Humanity, Fortitude, Devotion, Sacrifice'--fitting tributes to the life she led. Authored by Abraham Unger, M.D.
   http://womenshistory.about.com/library/prm/bledith_cavell1.htm

Nurse Edith Cavell  
   In 1914, she harbored allied soldiers from behind the Germans lines. Story By Peter Clowes for Military History magazine.
   http://womenshistory.about.com/library/prm/bledithcavell1.htm

Mother of the Union Army  
   The story of Mary Ann Bickerdyke, who delivered supplies from her church to a medical camp in Illinois, and stayed to nurse the sick and wounded for four years and nineteen battles. [Requires paid subscription.]
   http://www.cwipremium.com//feature/index.htm?featureid=11

Louisa Maertz  
   Profile: Louisa Maertz, 1837-1918, an untrained United States Civil War nurse.
   http://history.alliancelibrarysystem.com/IllinoisWomen/files/bh/htm2/bhHTM003.cfm

Aunt Lizzie Aiken from Peoria  
   Excerpt of a memorial book written in 1906 describing Mrs. Aiken services to the soldiers at Shawneetown in 1861.
   http://history.alliancelibrarysystem.com/IllinoisWomen/files/pe/htm1/aiken.cfm

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