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 1869 - 1936 (66 years)
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| Name |
NOYES Clara Dutton |
| Birth |
3 Oct 1869 |
Port Deposit, Cecil, Maryland, United States  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| _UID |
6B27E9F886024059B6639EF59CAE5511F065 |
| Death |
3 Jun 1936 |
Washington, District of Columbia [1] |
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Clara Dutton Noyes obituary
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| Burial |
Aft 3 Jun 1936 |
Old Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States [2] |
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Duck River Cemetery |
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Clara Dutton Noyes gravestone
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| Notes |
- Graduated from Johns Hopkins School for Nursing, 1896.
Founded first American school for midwives (1911); received Florence Nightingale Medal of the International Red Cross (1923); received French Medal of Honor (1929); inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Nurses Association (1998).
One of the most prominent professional nurses of the early 20th century, Clara Dutton Noyes instituted many standardized procedures, maintained the Red Cross' reserve of trained nurses for emergency service, and founded the first school for midwives in America.
As the United States was preparing for World War I, Clara Dutton Noyes faced an enormous task -- preparing nurses for duty. Noyes, a member of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), excelled at this and, subsequently, strengthened the nursing profession internationally.
As director of the Red Cross' Bureau of Nursing (and later as director of nursing service and chairman of the National Committee on American Red Cross Nursing), Noyes was responsible for the enrollment, organization and assignment of nurses to duty (more than 21,000 nurses by the end of the war) and the Red Cross' curriculum. For 20 years during and following World War I, she ensured the availability of nursing care in war and disaster, including providing nurses for the indigent during the Depression.
Noyes toured post-war Europe, where nurses were assigned for general relief, public health, child welfare or hospital work. Noyes then made recommendations for the development of public health services and nursing schools in Europe that impacted nursing worldwide.
Before her appointment at the Red Cross, Noyes served as a nursing and hospital superintendent at several institutions and founded the first school for midwives in the United States. She served as president of the ANA (1918-1922), the National League of Nursing Education, the board of the American Journal of Nursing and twice as vice president of the International Council of Nurses. While president of ANA, she was instrumental in bringing together the three national nursing organizations to establish a national headquarters and the Bureau of Nursing Information.
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| Person ID |
I109494 |
Noyes Family Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
25 Mar 2015 |
| Father |
Colonel NOYES Enoch Dutton, Jr., b. 8 Nov 1830, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States d. 23 Jun 1897, Port Deposit, Cecil, Maryland, United States (Age 66 years) |
| Mother |
BANNING Laura Lay, b. 19 Jun 1841, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States d. 4 Jun 1918, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 76 years) |
| Marriage |
1860 |
Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States [3] |
| Family ID |
F7773 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Death - 3 Jun 1936 - Washington, District of Columbia |
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| Sources |
- [S6830] Internet-Encyclopedia.com, Clara Dutton Noyes.
- [S86] Death-gravestone, Duck River Cemetery; Old Lyme, CT.
- [S103] Book-Noyes-The Noyes Descendants, Vol. II, p.168.
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