Jennie Casseday, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jennie Casseday

American philanthropist

Date of Birth: 09-Jun-1840

Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Date of Death: 08-Feb-1893

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Jennie Casseday (June 9, 1840 – February 8, 1893) was an American philanthropist, social reformer, school founder, and letter writer. Casseday was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1840, her girlhood passed amid the surroundings of a wealthy Christian home.
In 1861, she was thrown from a carriage; she survived the resulting spinal injury, but was physically disabled, and in pain for the rest of her life.
It was her own love of flowers in the sick-room which first suggested the Flower Mission, and when Frances E.
Willard went to Louisville in 1881, she gained Casseday's consent to become superintendent of this work for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
From that time till her death, she directed from her sick-bed world-wide plans for this philanthropy, personally conducting an immense correspondence in its interests.
Besides her work in the Flower Mission, Casseday was the founder of the Jennie Casseday Infirmary, and the Louisville Training School for Nurses.