Woolsey, Georgeanna Muirson (1833–1906)
Woolsey, Georgeanna Muirson (1833–1906)
American relief worker. Name variations: Georgeanna Bacon. Born George Anna Muirson Woolsey Nov 5, 1833, in Brooklyn, NY; died Jan 27, 1906, in New Haven, CT; dau. of Charles William Woolsey (sugar refiner) and Jane Eliza (Newton) Woolsey; sister of relief workers, Abby Howland Woolsey (1828–1893) and Jane Stuart Woolsey (1830–1891); cousin of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835–1905, writer); m. Francis Bacon (professor of surgery at Yale Medical School), June 7, 1866.
Worked as nurse at large for hospital transport service of US Sanitary Commission (1862); tended to wounded and set up relief stations at various hospitals and battlefields during Civil War, including Belle Plain, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg (1862–64); wrote Three Weeks at Gettysburg, for Sanitary Commission (1863); with husband, established Connecticut Training School for Nurses at New Haven Hospital (1873); published Hand Book of Nursing for Family and General Use (1879); co-founded Connecticut Children's Aid Society (1892); with sister Eliza, wrote 2-vol. Letters of a Family during the War for the Union (1899).