Butler, Ida (1868–1949)

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Butler, Ida (1868–1949)

American nurse. Born Ida de Fatio Butler, Mar 18, 1868, in Watertown, NY; died Mar 11, 1949, in Hartford, Connecticut; dau. of John Hartwell Butler (major) and Ida de M. Fatio Butler (Civil War nurse); raised by grandfather, John S. Butler (psychiatrist), after mother's death; cousin of Anne Warburton Goodrich (pioneering nurse); Hartford Hospital School of Nursing, diploma, 1901; never married.

Worked at Hartford Hospital in many roles (1902–18), including obstetric department supervisor; during WWI, sent to Lyons, France, to oversee nursing at Hospital Violet and Hospital Holtzman (children's hospitals); returned to US (1919) to direct home for influenza epidemic victims; was director of Red Cross (1936–39).

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