Emily Elizabeth Parsons | |
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| Born | March 8, 1824 |
| Died | 1880 (aged 56) |
| Burial place | Mount Auburn Cemetery |
| Education | Cambridge High School |
| Known for | Founder of Mount Auburn Hospital |
| Father | Theophilus Parsons |
| Relatives | Theophilus Parsons (grandfather) |
Emily Elizabeth Parsons (1824 – 1880) was an American Civil War nurse, hospital administrator, and founder of Mount Auburn Hospital in Massachusetts. Her posthumous memoir, Fearless Purpose: Memoir of Emily Elizabeth Parsons, gives a rare glimpse of the American Civil War from a nurse's perspective as she describes her work tending to Union soldiers and managing the nursing staff at Benton Barracks Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.