Cairo's Civil War Ansel, Mary Jane Safford

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Cairo Girl Scouts Mary Jane Dunker) left) and Sharon unveil the Daughters of the American R evolution plaque Mary]. Safford) "Cairo)s Angel.)) The ceremony took the lawn of the Cairo Public Library on April 22 during Spring Tour of the Illinois State Historical Society. Also pating in the ceremony were Girl S.cout Gail Beadles Harold Bowers of the DAR. Below is a close-up of the
LE ROY H. FISCHER When Mary was a medical student in New York , she became interested in an effort of Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, and Henry Ward ,the outspoken social reform preacher of New York, clean up the vice and squalor of that city. It was Mary recommended Mrs. Bickerdyke to head the task, and went to Washington especially to see her about taking job. Several years later, in turn, it was Mrs. Bickerwho asked Mary, by then teaching and practicing in Boston, to help raise several hundred dollars that city for the relief of distressed farmers in Kansas were victims of a severe grasshopper plague. 25 her own estimation, Mary Safford's professional career the major contribution of her life. Her Civil War service, she thought, was comparatively brief and y unimportant, except that it was the turning in her life, the factor above all that interested her in and surgery. But today, as a century ago, the knows her as the Civil War Angel of Cairo.26 Baker, Cyclone in Calico, 228-29, 232-33. On April 22, 1961, a bronze plaque on the lawn of the A. B. Safford Library (the gift of Mrs. A. B. Safford in 1883 ), Cairo, was to Mary Jane Safford· to commemorate her Civil War hospital . by the Egyptian Chapter of the Daughters of the American 245
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