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Fowle, Elida Barker

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Fowle, Elida Barker (1842-1919)

US relief and welfare worker. During the Civil War she was a private hospital visitor, fundraiser, and field nurse. She founded the Soldier's Free Library, Washington, DC (1862), and she also sang to raise money for the troops.

She was born in New York City. She was noted for her charitable works in New York and Massachusetts.



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