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3 unusual facts about Katherine Prescott Wormeley


Katherine Prescott Wormeley

During the American Civil War, she, with noted landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and the Rev. Henry Bellows, played a role in the work of the United States Sanitary Commission, a civilian agency set up to coordinate the volunteer efforts of women and men who wanted to contribute to the war effort.

Katherine Prescott Wormeley died on August 4, 1908 at her summer home in Jackson, New Hampshire.

George M. Fredrickson (1965/1993), The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union, reprint with new preface, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.



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