Harriet Camp Lounsbery

Born in Indiana in 1851, Harriet Camp Lounsbery trained at the School of Nursing of the Homeopathic Hospital of Brooklyn. A 1927 profile in The American Journal of Nursing describes a long, active career that also included postgraduate study at the summer schools of Western Reserve and Columbia.

Lounsbery worked in several sides of nursing life: hospital administration, school nursing, teaching, and professional organizing. The same profile says she served as superintendent of nurses at her alma mater for six years, later became a school nurse and supervisor in Charleston, West Virginia, and played a leading role in nursing affairs in West Virginia, including work connected with the state's 1907 nurse registration law.

She is best remembered by many readers for Making Good on Private Duty: Practical Hints to Graduate Nurses, a practical early nursing guide published in 1912. She also served during the Spanish-American War and later taught Red Cross home nursing during World War I, showing the same steady focus on service that runs through both her career and her writing.