Anna Cabot was born into a distinguished and well-to-do family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1833,[1] the daughter of Charles Lowell and Anna Jackson.
When the Civil War started, she trained to become an Army nurse, and in the summer of 1862 she was assigned as nurse on the hospital ship Daniel Webster on the James River. Later that year she was assigned to the Armory Square Hospital, where she served until August 1865.[2]
After the war, she married Henry E. Woodbury, a prominent physician and son of Elisha and Mary Ann Wooburn, in Cambridge in 1868.[3]
She later founded the Howard Industrial School of Colored Women and Girls in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her school educated recently-freed slaves in housekeeping skills and helped place them in jobs. In 1879, she established the Mission School of Cookery in Washington, D.C., teaching cooking basics to students of all skin colors. In 1889 she published the cooking manual that was used in public schools in Washington, D.C.
Anna died in 1906[4] and was buried at the family plot of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass. Find A Grave: Memorial #102056064[5]
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