Seattle pioneer midwife
Subtitle: Alice Ada Wood Ellis : midwife, nurse & mother to all : as told by her great-granddaughter
By: Susan E. Fleming
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [United States?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781494763527
Subjects: Biography; Midwives; Frontier and pioneer life; Midwifery; History; Sages-femmes; Biographies
Description: "This is the captivating story of my great-grandmother Alice Ada Wood Ellis - who was a single mother with two small children - Myrtle who was 2 1/2 years old and Marie who was a 6 month-old baby. She traveled to Seattle in 1900 on a locomotive steam train to join the Alaska-Yukon-Klondike Gold Rush Stampede. She built a home in Green Lake. Soon after she placed two beds in her front parlor in her home and helped women with birthing. She fulfilled her calling as a pioneer midwife-nurse. This epic saga includes life in 1895 nursing schools, train robbers, birthing in the home, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, women's suffrage, bubonic plague and unclaimed children. Stories from the 1918 Great Pandemic Flu and the Great Depression conclude this remarkable journey. This is Alice's story"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1900 : taking the train west : Great Northern Railway; title: 1895 : attending school : Milwaukee County Training School of Nursing; title: 1896 : falling in love : Gideon J. Ellis; title: 1900 arriving in Seattle & Green Lake : magnificent; title: 1904 : making a living : midwifing & nursing in home; title: 1906 : gaining a son : harlots from the Yukon & Alaska; title: 1900s : midwifing, doctoring & nursing : educating and regulating providers; title: 1907 : unexpected visitors : the truth revealed; title: 1909 : going to the Fair : Alaska Yukon Pacific Exhibition; title: 1910 : voting rights : suffrage for Washingtonian women; title: 1912 : taking him back : good bye & farewell; title: 1914 : losing Mama : Clara E. Wood; title: 1918 : tending to the flu : the Great Pandemic; title: 1922 : remembering Father : Pierson E. Wood; title: 1929 : surviving : the Great Depression; title: Epilogue.