Born: 6 December 1815, United States
Died: 22 July 1884
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Jane Grey Swisshelm, an American journalist, anti-slavery agitator, and war-nurse. In 1848 she established the Pittsburgh Saturday Visitor, which she edited till 1857, when she removed to St. Cloud, Minn.
There she published another paper with anti-slavery sentiments, which was destroyed by a mob, the press and types being thrown in the river.
After appearing as a speaker at anti-slavery meetings, she served as a nurse in Campbell Hospital, Washington, during the Civil War; at one time she had charge of 182 badly wounded men at Fredericksburg for five days, with no surgeon or assistant, and saved them all.