Marie Louise Lefort
Marie Louise Lefort (September 1874 – August 7, 1951) was an American physician who directed a medical unit in France during World War I.[1] From 1898 to 1902, Marie Louise Lefort was the first female district physician in Newark, New Jersey.[2]
Early life and career
[edit]Lefort was born in September 1874.[3] In her twenties, she lived with her mother, Adeline Lefort, and a servant, Edward Muster.[3] She conducted her medical practice in New Jersey until 1918, when she aided World War I efforts by medically assisting soldiers in Reims, France.[4] In 1919, she became Director of the American Memorial Hospital for the American Fund for the French Wounded.[5] Speaking both English and French fluently allowed her to communicate easily with the Americans and the French while working abroad.[4] Under the direction of Lefort, a medical gas unit reformed a damaged girls' boarding school into Jeanne d'Arc Hospital.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dr. Lefort, Headed Hospital in France". The New York Times.
- ^ "Dr. Marie Louise Lefort". Newark Women. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
- ^ a b "Mary L Helzemiller in the 1900 United States Federal Census". Ancestry. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
- ^ a b Egbert, Jean Pauline (November 1926). "American Memorial Hospital: Reims" (PDF). The American Journal of Nursing. 26 (11): 847–848. doi:10.2307/3408310. JSTOR 3408310 – via JSTOR.
- ^ a b Report of the Women's Oversea Hospitals. New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc. 1919. pp. 2, 9, 12, 18.
- ^ "Why Suffragists Helped Send Women Doctors to WWI's Front Lines". HISTORY. 2021-03-04. Retrieved 2024-06-20.