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About Phoebe Pember
Phoebe Yates Levy Pember was an American nurse and female administrator of Chimborazo Hospital at Richmond, Virginia. She was from a prominent Jewish family from Charleston, South Carolina. She assumed the responsibility informally at the age of 39 and eventually over 15,000 patients came under her direct care during the war.
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- nurse, writer
- Born
- August 18, 1823
- Died
- March 4, 1913