Women / Persons ~ P12186

Vesta M.W. Swarts

Alternate Names:

Vesta M. Ward Swarts
Mrs. Vesta Mindwell Swarts
Vesta Mindwell Ward

Gender: Female

Life Dates: 26 April 1841 - 2 August 1923

Types:

Medicine, doctor
Medicine, nurse

Note: high-school principal who resigned to be nurse during Civil War; later became doctor; first female practicing physician in Fort Wayne

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Vesta M.W. Swarts Author: Mary A. Gardner Holland . Collection Title: Our Army Nurses: Interesting Sketches, Addresses, and Photographs of Nearly One Hundred of the Noble Women Who Served in Hospitals and On Battle Fields During Our Late Civil War, 1861-1865. 1895