Lena Angevine Warner
American nurse and activist
About Lena Angevine Warner
Lived 1869 – 1948 (aged 78–79). Lena Angevine Warner was an American.
Lena Angevine Warner (1869–1948) was an American nurse and activist, sometimes referred to as "Tennessee's pioneer nurse". She also founded the Tennessee Nurses Association and the Tennessee Health Association and was the first superintendent of nurses at the City of Memphis Hospital.
Following the Spanish-American War, Warner was invited back to Cuba to support experiments related to Yellow Fever alongside Dr. Walter Reed and other distinguished medical staff. The team was able to determine that Yellow Fever was carried by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito.
Death Warner is buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis.
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American nurse and activist
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Lena Angevine Warner was born in 1869.
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Lena Angevine Warner died in 1948.
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