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Elizabeth Christophers Kimball Hobson
1831–1912
A leading reformer in 19th-century New York, she helped shape modern nursing education and worked to improve life for working women. She also wrote about her experiences, leaving behind a vivid record of an era of social change.
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A Report Concerning the Colored Women of the South
by Elizabeth Christophers Kimball Hobson, Charlotte Everett Hopkins
About the author
Born Elizabeth Christophers Kimball in 1831, she became known for public service work in New York after her marriage to banker Joseph Hobson. Reliable sources describe her as an American social worker and reformer whose efforts were closely tied to major charitable and health institutions of her time.
She is especially remembered as a co-founder of the Bellevue Training School for Nurses, an influential early nursing school organized along the Nightingale model. Sources also credit her with supporting programs for working women and with helping formalize first-aid training in the United States.
Her writing adds another side to her legacy. She is associated with A Report Concerning the Colored Women of the South, and her memoir, Recollections of a Happy Life, was published after her death in 1912.