Kate Waller Barrett
American physician · United States · On the map · Doctors · Lived 1857 to 1925 · aged 68
Kate Waller Barrett, née Katherine Harwood Waller, was a prominent Virginia physician, humanitarian, philanthropist, sociologist and social reformer, best known for her leadership of the National Florence Crittenton Mission, which she founded in 1895 with Charles Nelson Crittenton.
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Aquia Church in Stafford, Virginia, was the first and last assignment of the Rev. Dr. Robert South Barrett. He and Kate Waller Barrett are buried in its cemetery.
Charles Nelson Crittenton and Dr. Kate Waller Barrett collaborated for 16 years.
The entrance to the Florence Crittenton Home of Charleston, South Carolina
Now abandoned, the Florence Crittenton Maternity Hospital of Sioux City, Iowa was state of the art when built in 1913 next to the Florence Crittenton Home.
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Her causes included helping the "outcast woman, the mistreated prisoner, those lacking in educational and social opportunity, the voteless woman, and the disabled war veteran." Although comparatively little known today, she was "[o]ne of the most prominent women of her time".
