Mary Jewett Telford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mary Jewett Telford

Civil War nurse, author and lecturer, charter member of Woman's Relief Corps

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1839

Place of Birth: Seneca, New York, United States

Date of Death: 05-Aug-1906

Profession: writer, nurse, children's writer

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Mary Jewett Telford (March 18, 1839 – August 5, 1906) was a humanitarian who worked as a nurse at Hospital No.
8 in Nashville, Tennessee, during the American Civil War.
In her later years, Mary was a published author, editor of numerous journals, lecturer on the temperance circuit and charter member of the Woman's Relief Corps, an auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic.