The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1901-10-11
From the Buffalo Express.l
PRESIDENTS NURSES.
Two Young Women Of This City
Entitled to the Honor.
Miss Jennie Connolly and Miss
Maud Mohan We're Chosen
for the Service.

sur SCOuS COuuSCIcu Will euc ITdSSuy
which deprived the nation of its Presi-
dent have become familiar to almost
everyone, little has been made public
concerning the nurses who administer
ed to the late President in his last
hours.
Of these there were four. One was
Miss Grace Mackenzie of the Johns
Hopkins Training School for Nurses:
Miss Evelyn Hunt, Mrs. McKinley's
nurse, and Miss Maud Mohan and Miss
Jennie Connolly of this city, who are
graduates of the Buffalo General Hos
pital Training School for Nurses.
Miss Mohan and Miss Connolly were
the nurses summoned to the bedside of
the President after the nurses of the
Exposition Emergency Hospital, Miss
Barnes and Miss Simmons. were re-
lieved from duty the first morning after
the Presidents illness.
Miss Mohan is of Canadian birth and
Miss Connolly's home is in Gowanda,
though she has been in Buffalo during
the last four years.
I'VE went on duty at s O'Clock on Sat
urday morning, the day after President
Mckinley was shot," Miss Connolly
said to an Express reporter, in telling
the story.
1--WE all had elght-hour duty and we
were kept very busy all the time. There
was so much to do for him and we felt
such an intense desire for his recovery
that we put our very souls into the SER
vice rendered.
SIT had never seemed possible to me
that the President of the United States
could notice the little things of life that
he did. Nothing escaped him. The
most trifling service was rewarded with
q gracious recognition.
''When we came home to rest and
had time to think about the case, we
we're somewhat awed by the RESPONSE
bility of caring for the President Of
this great nation, but when we were in
the Presidents room, we thought only
of him as the most kindly man in the
world, who was dependent upon us.
He was so gentle, so patient, so good
and taught us all lesson by the brave
t ry he manifested throughout those try
J ing days and nights.
mo one, it seems to me, could have
I seen him in his last hours and not have
] been convinced that he was good man.
His death was so beautiful, so calm that
? we felt as though we moved in the pres,
= ence of one who belonged to better
world than ours long before his eyes
: were closed in that last sleep.
a "Twice on Friday, the day before his
J death, he repeated the Lords Prayer
: He prayed for everyone. Everyone he
e loved and for the poor, miserable
e wretch, Czolgosz.
y ''And, had he lived" said Miss Con
= molly, impressively, 81 believe he would
s have pardoLed him. His heart wa:
, filled with pity for him and all that
e ever heard him say of him was: He
: couldn't have known what he was do
e ing
1T never seemed to us that he would
e not get well. He seemed in such goot
+ condition when he was stricken and
remember the first few days that hi
tskin seemed so healthful and his mus
so firm. I think l saw him, himself
He seemed in such good spirits OF
. Thursday and we looked upon that day
: as marking the beginning of speedy re
# covery. No one dreamed of the rea
ondition, as was later revealed.
: 'Do you think that Mrs. McKinle!
r fully realized his death?''
=. "Yes. l am sure she did. We saw
very little of her and of the other mem
bers of the Presidents family, as we
occupied what was known as the hospi
tai part of the house and they another
:, wing. But have every reason to be
lieve that she knew exactly what the
I. Presidents illness was from the begin
: ming and that she realized to the fulles
extent his death. Though l believe
the shock to her was so great that she
: was stunned by her grief and her calm
ness was due in a large measure to
that. The reaction, the terrible realiz
: alton, has not come to her. Indeed, tC
the most of US the events of the las
:. week seem more like terrible dream
. than a reality"
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