![]() ![]() For the next 30 years, she worked mainly as a private duty nurse in the homes of wealthy white families. Out of a class of 40 entrants, Mary Eliza Mahoney graduated as one of only four students to complete the intensive program and became the first black professionally qualified nurse. The hospital was founded and staffed entirely by women physicians, and it’s possible that this other minority group – women in medicine – gave Mahoney the opportunity because they were also victims of prejudice. New England Hospital for Women and Children was the first institution in the US to introduce a formal nurse training course in 1872. At the age of 33, Mahoney was the first black woman to be accepted into the Hospital’s 16-month training program in 1878. Mahoney started work at the New England Hospital for Women and Children at age 18 and worked there for 15 years as a cook, maid, and washerwoman before starting her training as a nurse. She was a deeply religious woman, which was also the reason why she aspired from a young age to become a nurse. Mahoney’s small stature – weighing in at around 90 pounds – did not limit her energy and drive. ![]() Considered to be the probable fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims, Kelly's was the most savage of his murders.Mary Eliza Mahoney was born on May 7, 1845, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to freed slave parents who had moved north wanting to live in an environment with less racial discrimination. Then, on November 9th, the body of prostitute Mary Jane Kelly was found in a boarding room in Whitechapel. She was far more savagely murdered and it is thought that the Ripper had more time with her. Within an hour, another body was discovered - Catherine Eddowes'. On September 30th, Elizabeth Stride, also a prostitute in Whitechapel, was found dead from a slit throat. On September 8th, the body of Annie Chapman was found - throat slit and disemboweled. On August 31st, the body of Mary Ann Nichols was found - stabbed and mutilated. Martha Tabram had been stabbed 39 times - a possible but not confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper. In 1888, when she was just 14 years old, on August 7th, the body of a prostitute was found in the Whitechapel section of London. It was the first park to have the word "national" in its name. In 1879, when she was only 5 years old, on April 26th, the National Park - later renamed the Royal National Park - the 2nd oldest national park in the world, was formally proclaimed in New South Wales, Australia. Its nickname is the "Centennial State" because it was admitted just 28 days after the United States' centennial. In 1876, when she was only 2 years old, on August 1st, Colorado became the 38th U.S. Thus began a year of vigilante "justice." In central Texas, a German-American mob broke into a jail with a battering ram and lynched two suspected cattle rustlers. ![]() In 1875, in the year of Mary Eliza Mahoney's passing, on February 18th, the Mason County War, also called the Hoodoo War, began. Federal forces arrived, put down the insurrection, and five days later the legally elected government was restored. The former Confederates temporarily replaced him with (the former) Democratic Governor John McEnery. Kellogg - was physically driven from his office. Some members of the previous Confederate Army assembled for the purpose of "driving the usurpers from power" and the Republican Governor - William P. In 1874, in the year that Mary Eliza Mahoney was born, on September 14th, the Battle of Liberty Place occurred in New Orleans - the capital of Louisiana. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Mary's lifetime. ![]()
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