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Also Known As Mary Jane Grant
Born 1805 • Kingston • Jamaica
Died May 14, 1881 (aged 76) • London • England
Role In Crimean War

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Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician
Napoleon III
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emperor of France
Nicholas I
Nicholas I
tsar of Russia
Lord Palmerston
Lord Palmerston
prime minister of United Kingdom
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Elizabeth Kenny
Australian nurse
Lillian D. Wald.
Lillian D. Wald
American sociologist
Mary Ann Bickerdyke.
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
American medical worker
Josephine Clara Goldmark
American labor leader
Karl Vasilyevich, Count Nesselrode
Karl Vasilyevich, Count Nesselrode
Russian foreign minister
Sylvia Mendez
Sylvia Mendez
American civil rights activist and nurse
Mabel Keaton Staupers
American nurse and executive
Mary Adelaide Nutting.
Mary Adelaide Nutting
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Jane A. Delano
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Mary Breckinridge
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Prince Mikhail Dmitriyevich Gorchakov
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American physician
Charles-Denis-Sauter Bourbaki
French general