Anna L. Alline

Anna L. Alline
Alline in 1923
Born
Anna Lowell Alline

(1864-12-31)December 31, 1864
East Machias, Maine, U.S.
DiedDecember 16, 1934(1934-12-16) (aged 69)
Ottumwa, Iowa, U.S.
Other namesAnna Lowell Brown
OccupationsNurse, nursing school superintendent

Anna Lowell Alline (December 31, 1864 – December 16, 1934) was an American nurse, nurse educator, and inspector of nursing schools in New York State.

Early life and education

Alline was born in East Machias, Maine, and raised in Iowa, the daughter of Henry Wadsworth Alline and Sarah Stearns Keller Alline. She graduated from the Homeopathic Hospital Training School for Nurses in Brooklyn in 1893,[1] and was one of the first students in the Hospital Economics program at Teachers College, Columbia University.[2]

Career

Alline was a school teacher for several years before training to be a nurse. She taught hospital economics at Teachers College, Columbia University.[3][4] She was treasurer of the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses from 1900 to 1909,[5][6] She was elected president of the Associated Alumnae of the Brooklyn Training Schools for Nurses in 1897.[7][8] She was a vice-president and inspector of training schools with the New York State Nurses' Association.[9][10] She was superintendent of nursing at Buffalo Homeopathic Hospital from 1910 to 1912, and worked at a hospital in Albany in 1918 to 1923.[1][11]

Publications

  • "Training-School Libraries" (1905)[12]
  • "Course in Hospital Economics" (1906, with Jeanie M. Campbell)[13]
  • "The Supply and Demand of Students in the Nurse Training-Schools" (1907)[14]
  • "Report on Inspection of Nurse Training Schools, for the year ending July 31, 1908" (1908)[15]
  • "State Supervision of Nursing Schools in New York" (1909)[16]
  • "The Education of Nurses. The Function of the Hospital" (1910)[17]

Personal life

Alline married widowed physician Elisha Wilton Brown in December 1924, and retired to Addison, Maine. Her husband died in June 1925. She died in 1934, at her brother's farm in Ottumwa, Iowa, at the age of 69.

References

  1. ^ a b American nursing : a biographical dictionary. Internet Archive. New York : Garland. 1988. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-8240-8540-7 – via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  2. ^ Nutting, M. Adelaide (1907). "The Course in Hospital Economics at Teachers' College". The American Journal of Nursing. 8 (2): 125–126. doi:10.2307/3403504. ISSN 0002-936X.
  3. ^ "The Special Course in Hospital Economics". The American Journal of Nursing. 1 (11): 806–808. 1901. doi:10.2307/3402385. ISSN 0002-936X.
  4. ^ "NEAA Awards". Gardener. Retrieved 2025-11-30.
  5. ^ "Nursing Convention Delegates to be Feted at Dinner at Biltmore". The Atlanta Constitution. 1931-05-07. p. 14. Retrieved 2025-11-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Nurses Gather Here; Training-school Teachers Begin Convention Today". The Washington Post. 1905-05-01. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-11-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Nurses Alumnae Meeting; Officers Elected the Graduates of the Brooklyn Training Schools". Brooklyn Eagle. 1897-01-10. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-11-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "The Associated Nurses". New-York Tribune. 1897-04-20. p. 11. Retrieved 2025-11-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Nurses Have Finished Up; The Seventh Annual Session of the State Association is Over Now". Buffalo Courier Express. 1908-10-22. p. 5. Retrieved 2025-11-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Among Women's Organizations". The Buffalo News. 1908-10-21. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-11-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ 1920 United States census, via Ancestry.
  12. ^ Alline, Anna L. (1905). "Training-School Libraries". The American Journal of Nursing. 5 (12): 853–860. doi:10.2307/3402248. ISSN 0002-936X.
  13. ^ Alline, Anna L., and Jeanie M. Campbell. "Course in Hospital Economics" The American Journal of Nursing 6(5)(1906): 325.
  14. ^ Alline, Anna L. (1907). "The Supply and Demand of Students in the Nurse Training-Schools". The American Journal of Nursing. 7 (10): 758–764. doi:10.2307/3402951. ISSN 0002-936X.
  15. ^ Alline, Anna L. (1908). "Report of Inspection of Nurse Training Schools, for the Year Ending July 31, 1908". The American Journal of Nursing. 9 (3): 175–179. doi:10.2307/3403689. ISSN 0002-936X.
  16. ^ Alline, Anna L. "State Supervision of Nursing Schools in New York" The American Journal of Nursing 9(12)(1909): 911-923.
  17. ^ Alline, Anna L. (1910-05-01). "The Education of Nurses. The Function of the Hospital". Teachers College Record. 11 (3): 1–3. doi:10.1177/016146811001100304. ISSN 0161-4681.
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