Adaline Weston Couzins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Adaline Weston Couzins

British-born American civil servant, suffragist, Civil War nurse

Date of Birth: 12-Aug-1815

Place of Birth: Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 09-May-1892

Profession: nurse, suffragette, suffragist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Adaline Weston Couzins

  • Adaline Weston Couzins (August 12, 1815 – May 9, 1892) was a British-born American civil servant, a suffragist, and a Civil War nurse who worked for the Ladies' Union Aid Society of St.
  • Louis.
  • She spent most of her career as a nurse during the Civil War on hospital ships that tended to Union and Confederate soldiers all along the Mississippi River.Adaline moved to St.
  • Louis, Missouri around 1823 from England and eventually married John Edward Decker Couzins in 1834.
  • Adaline and John had four children.
  • Their daughter, Phoebe Couzins, was one of the first female lawyers in the United States.Adaline's first civil service was during the cholera epidemic of 1849 as she and her husband headed its relief corps.
  • After Adaline heard of the Civil War she began working under Dr.
  • Charles Pope, a surgeon in St.
  • Louis.
  • Adaline then joined the Ladies' Union Aid Society of St.
  • Louis and was sent out to work in the field.
  • While on the hospital ships she worked under Simon Pollack who was the chief surgeon for the Western Sanitary Commission.While rescuing and caring for soldiers, Adaline was injured twice.
  • She was first severely frostbitten in 1862 and then struck by a minie-ball fragment in 1863 at the siege of Vicksburg.
  • Despite her injuries, Adaline continued her nursing duties.After the Civil War, Adaline continued on her work as a civil servant.
  • She founded the Female Guardian Home of St.
  • Louis, headed the Ladies' Sanitary Corps of the Special Health Department of St Louis, and campaigned for women's suffrage.
  • Before her death, she was granted government pension on May 27, 1888, for her unrelenting services during the Civil War.

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