Esther Hasson

Esther Voorhees Hasson was the first Superintendent of the United States Navy Nurse Corps. Prior to and after serving in the United States Navy Nurse Corps, she served as an Army nurse.

Esther Voorhees Hasson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, onSeptember 1867. She graduated from the Connecticut Training School for Nurses, in New Haven, in 1897.

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