Emily L. Loveridge

Emily L. Loveridge (1860–1941) was an American nurse, educator, school founder, and hospital superintendent. She established the first nursing school in the Northwestern United States at the Good Samaritan Hospital of Portland, Oregon, the hospital having been founded fifteen years earlier by the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon. In 1906, she became the hospital's superintendent and had the distinction of her hospital being the largest Protestant hospital in the U.S. having a woman as superintendent.

Early life and education Emily Lemoine Loveridge was born in Hammondsport, New York, August 28, 1860. Her father, the Rev. Daniel E. Loveridge, was an Episcopal minister, who was born in Connecticut and came west from Unadilla, New York in 1888 to take charge of an Episcopal parish in Oregon. Subsequently, he went to Eugene, where he presided over the church for 11 years and then retired, his death occurring in 1908. His wife, Maria Lemoine Wolfalk was a native of Virginia, and was the adopted daughter of George Upfold, first Episcopal Bishop of Indiana. Maria died when Emily was four years of age. Emily had two siblings: George Uphold Loveridge and Mrs. Sarah L. Heslop. After the father's subsequent marriage, Emily gained two half-sisters: Mrs. John Cannon of Astoria, Oregon and Mrs. L. A. Newton of Portland. and worked as a teacher in the primary grade school for six years,

During Loveridge's first month at the hospital, candidates for the training school were interviewed and on June 1, 1890, a class of six women was admitted. At this time, the hospital consisted of a two-story wooden building accommodating 50 patients. An addition, providing extra accommodation for ten private and ten ward patients had been completed but not occupied.

Emily Lemoine Loveridge died in Portland, Oregon, April 26, 1941.