Tyler, Adeline Blanchard (1805–1875)
Tyler, Adeline Blanchard (1805–1875)
American nurse and hospital administrator. Born Dec 8, 1805, in Billerica, MA; died Jan 9, 1875, in Needham, MA; dau. of Jeremiah Blanchard (farmer) and Mary (Gowen) Blanchard; m. John Tyler (auctioneer), 1826 (died 1853).
Became Episcopalian deaconess (c. 1853); studied nursing at Deaconesses' Institute in Kaiserswerth, Germany; established (1856) and supervised infirmary in Baltimore, MD, for St. Andrew's Church; tended to wounded Union soldiers after they were attacked by pro-Southern mob in Baltimore (1861); hired as superintendent of Camden Street federal military hospital in Baltimore (1861); served as head nurse at National Hospital in Chester, PA (1862–63) and Naval School Hospital in Annapolis, MD (later US General Hospital, Division No. 1) (1863–64); was "lady superintendent" of Children's Hospital in Boston, MA (1869–72).