Mary Elizabeth Gladwin, LL.D.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Akron, Summit County, Ohio; In the 1870 US Census she was recorded, age 8, living in Akron, Ohio with her parents.
• History: 6 Apr 1874, Akron, Summit County, Ohio; She became a naturalized citizen
• Graduation: 1887, Akron, Summit County, Ohio; She graduated with a with a Ph.B.; : Buchtel College
• History: 1887 to 1893, Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio; She taught in the Norwalk Schools as a teacher of physics and chemistry
• History: 1893; She was a chief nurse in the U.S. Army during the Spanish American War
• Graduation: 1896, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; She had abandoned teaching upon the advice of her doctor, so that she could regain her health.; : Boston City Hospital Nursing School
• History: 1899; She served with the American Red Cross in the Philippines in 1899
• Graduation: 1903, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; She graduated cum laude.; : Boston City Hospital School of Nursing
• History: 1903, Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts; In 1903, she became the superintendent of the Hospital in Beverly, Massachusetts. She served until 1904, then returned in 1905, serving until 1907
• History: 1904; During the Russo-Japanese War (1904), she spent six months as a Red Cross nurse in a hospital in Hiroshima, Japan. She was made a life member of the Japanese Imperial Red Cross and awarded the Japanese Order of the Crown, and the Port Arthur medal. She applied for a passport to travel to the war.
• History: 1907 to 1908, New York City, New York; Sh worked at the Woman's Hospital as the Superintendent of Nurses
• Census: 1910, Akron, Summit County, Ohio; She was living with her widowed mother.; : 47; Address:
  286 Voris Street
• Residence: 1910, Akron, Summit County, Ohio; She was working at the Goodrich Company; Address:
• History: 1912 to 1914, Akron, Summit County, Ohio; From 1912 through 1914, she organized and directed the School and Visiting Nurses Association of Akron, Ohio.
• History: 1913; In 1913, she served as the chief American Red Cross nurse during the Dayton, Ohio floods.
• History: 1914; From 1914 through 1919, she served the Red Cross in Belgrade, Serbia and Saloniki, Greece. She had originally gone to Belgrade to fight a typhus epidemic. During her stay, the city was taken by Austria, retaken by Serbia, and then again retaken by Austria. For her service, she was awarded the Serbian Royal Red Cross Order of St. Sava, which was bestowed upon her by the regent prince, later King Alexander; the La Croix de Charité; and the Russian Imperial Medal and Ribbon of St. Anne.
• Census: 1920, Akron, Summit County, Ohio; She lived with her sisters and was a nurse with the Red Cross; : 50; Address:
  286 East Voris Street
• History: 1920; For her service to the Red Cross, she was awarded the Florence Nightingale medal in 1920 by the International Committee of the Red Cross. This is the highest decorations that a Red Cross nurse can receive. Upon her return to the U.S., she was a Red Cross teacher in Akron and a lecturer for a few years. In 1923, she became the Director of Nursing Education for the State of Indiana, followed from 1923 to 1928, by Minnesota. In 1920, a LL.D. was conferred upon her by the University of Akron.
• History: 1928 to 1929, Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota; She worked at the School of Nursing as the Director
• Census: 1930, Akron, Summit County, Ohio; She lived with her sisters and was a nurse at a hospital; : 57; Address:
  268 Voris Steet
• History: 1930; She wrote Ethics for Nurses and The Red Cross and Jane Delano.
• History: 1938; Summing up her war time service in a lecture, she said "War will end when youth is taught what war really means - the conflict of the greedy."

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