Emily Dana Greene (1875 - 1969)

Born 21 Oct 1875 in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Died 15 Aug 1969 at age 93 in San Diego, California, United States

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Biography

Grad. St. Lukes Hos. NY, NY, reg. nurse. WWI Red Cross Nurse. Owned and operated Infants & Children's Hospital, El Paso, TX. Head nurse, Children's Hos. Chino, CA. See photos of her in Greene album.

I remember seeing her several times when she visited Greene Acres (Brookfield, CT). When I was about 10 years old, I went with Aunt Emily Dana, Aunt Anna Boughton and Aunt Josephine Greene to Temple, NH and we stayed overnight with Murray Day and his wife. She owned and operated a children's hospital in Texas for many years. My mother says that she had heard that she adopted a Mexican boy and that he ran away. She, my mother, also said that she was a lovely, gracious lady. We visited her in San Diego in the 1960s and she showed us around the San Diego Zoo. She was spry and delightful company and was, I believe, 93 years young at the time. (JGP)

Residence

1903 221 West 133d Street, New York City, working as a nurse. (Clarke)

Burial

Cypress View Mausoleum and Crematory, San Diego, San Diego, California (Find A Grave)

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #150232534
• Clarke, Louise Brownell. The Greenes of Rhode Island (Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1903) Page 612 & Page 709.
• The 1910 US Census: Year: 1910; Census Place: El Paso, El Paso, Texas; Roll: T624_1549; Page: 19B; Enumeration District: 0076; FHL microfilm: 1375562
• California, Death Index, 1940-1997, Date: 1969-08-26.
• Social Security Death Index: Number: 573-26-0383; Issue State: California; Issue Date: Before 1951
• 1940 US Census: Year: 1940; Census Place: Inglewood, Los Angeles, California; Roll: T627_233; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 19-277
• US Census Year: 1880; Census Place: Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island; Roll: 1209; Family History Film: 1255209; Page: 214C; Enumeration District: 077
• The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review (New York, Apr 1906) Vol. 36, Page 239.
  • "Miss Emily Dana Green, directoress of nurses of Providence Hospital, El Paso, Texas, has resigned her positions"
• EPCC, Borderlands: Desert Nightingale: Louise Dietrich 27 (2009-2010)
  • "In 1902, [Louise] Dietrich and her friend Emily Dana Greene, also a nurse, took a trip out West to California. They planned a short visit en route with a mutual friend in El Paso. Not only did they arrive during a torrential downpour, but typhoid fever was raging, too, and their friend was very ill. The two women decided to stay for a while."
  • "Dietrich discovered that the infant mortality rate in El Paso was one of the highest in the country, especially in the summer months. Babies suffered from “summer complaint,” which was a fancy name for dehydration and diarrhea. In response, a physician established a baby sanitarium in Cloudcroft, N. M. in 1910. Dietrich, along with Emily Greene, alternated summers as superintendent of the sanitarium."
• https://oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/85645/student-old/?task=5
  • "Louise DIETRICH, nurse leader in El Paso TX, suffragist. Louise Dietrich (1878-1962) came to El Paso, Texas in 1902 and stayed to help with an epidemic of typhoid fever in the city. She spent a lifetime improving nursing in Texas as a profession. She helped found a local mothers' hospital and also was active as a suffragist. She started the first nurses' registry in Texas and founded the El Paso Graduate Nurse Association. She and Miss Emily D. Greene operated the Baby Sanitarium in Cloudcroft, NM for eight years. Later she was president of the Texas League of Women Voters."
• El Paso City Directory (1920)
  • Page 93. St. Mark's Hospital Miss Emily Dana Green, Superintendent. A general hospital for women and children, Graduate Nurses Only, 101 E. Nevada St., Phone 6080
  • Page 793. Miss Emily Dana Greene supt, general hospital for women and children 1001 E Nevada, phone 6080 (see page 93)