Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge

Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge

Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge (July 31, 1811 – August 26, 1890) was a welfare worker, fund raiser, and wartime nurse. She was active in recruiting nurses for the Union army during the Civil War and would recount her experiences in her 1867 memoir "The Boys in Blue". In 1871 she organized the fund raising for the Evanston, Illinois College for Ladies, which opened in that year.

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