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Fairfax County Woman was Role Model for Nurses in early 1900s
Florence Eugenia Besley was born in Fairfax County in 1872 and pursued a career that had a broad impact on the field of nursing in the early 1900s.
After graduating high school, Besley attended Columbia and Children’s Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, DC. She got her nursing degree in 1893 and worked at several organizations in Virginia and Kentucky before she became the Second Superintendent of the University of Virginia’s training school for nurses at University Hospital in 1901. In this capacity she acted as a nurse, administrator and educator.