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Finding Aids about Health and Medicine

Augsperger, LaRue
LaRue Augspurger’s diary records her observations, experiences, and adventures at Mennonite Hospital’s nursing school. The entries are ...

Beel, Floyd E.—World War II Army Air Force Service
Floyd Everett Beel was born to Leown Iri and Emma Jane Calvert Beel in Decatur, IL, on February 9, 1922. He joined the United States Ar...

Brokaw Hospital
In 1894 five physicians made pledges of $500 each toward the creation of a hospital that would be located midway between Bloomington an...

Brokaw Hospital Newsletter
The establishment of Brokaw Hospital in Normal, IL dates to 1896. In 1981, Brokaw Hospital merged with Mennonite Hospital in Bloomingto...

Brokaw Service League Follies
The Brokaw Hospital Service League was organized in 1925. It was one of the oldest Hospital organizations of its type in the country. I...

Brokaw/Mennonite/BroMenn Hospitals
This collection includes written materials concerning three interrelated Bloomington-Normal hospitals: Brokaw Hospital, Mennonite Hospi...

Centenarians
This is a collection of newspaper articles documenting McLean County residents who lived to be 100+ years old....

COVID-19 Collection
On January 21, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first case in the United States, in Washington ...

Espey (Pharmacy)
The small, brick building at the northeast corner of Main and Front streets is one of the earliest brick buildings constructed in Bloom...

Exhibit: "A Matter of Life and Death"
This collection of Medical oral histories was gathered by the McLean County Historical Society in 1994 – 1995 for an exhibit on McLean ...

Fenelon, Dr. J. H.
Dr. J.H. Fenelon was a physician who practiced for more than 45 years in McLean County. During his time of practice in Bloomington, Dr....

Geneva, William B. & Carolyn Schertz
Carolyn Mabel Schertz was born October 13, 1892 in Hudson, Illinois, the daughter of David Schertz and Carrie Kaufman. The Schertz fami...

Gladys Washburn Mennonite School of Nursing
Born in 1904 to Sarah Myers and George A. Washburn, Gladys moved with her family from the Heyworth area to the Padua area when she was ...

McLean County Medical Society Minutes
In March 1854, fourteen local physicians met to organize a medical society. The Society was for the mutual improvement of its members.”...

Mennonite Hospital Association
The Mennonite Hospital Association (MHA) dates to 1919. The members of the MHA were churches of various denominations located in Centra...

Mennonite Hospital Newsletter
The establishment of Bloomington's Mennonite Hospital dates to 1919. By 1940, the hospital operated a nursing home and a nursing c...

Mennonite Hospital Nursing
The Mennonite School of Nursing was established as the Mennonite Sanitarium Training School in 1919, with the first commencement in 192...

St. Joseph’s School of Nursing
St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing was a Catholic institution conducted by the Sisters of The Third Order of St. Francis, under the ...

Stickrod’s Drug Store
According to Bloomington-Normal city directory listings, Elmer H. Stickrod established a drug store at 213 W. Washington St. sometime i...

Withers Home
When Sarah B. Withers died in 1897, she left her home at 305 West Locust Street in Bloomington, Illinois to the trustees of the Second ...