2 Quotes & Sayings By Mary Catherwood
Mary Catherwood was born in 1872 in England, and came to the United States at age six. She was a volunteer nurse during the Spanish-American War and later moved to Chicago for a nursing career. In 1893 she married George Catherwood, a civil engineer. They lived in Chicago for five years before moving to Washington, D.C., where George worked for the U.S
Geological Survey. George died in 1906 of tuberculosis, leaving Mary a widow with a teenage daughter. Mary Catherwood lived the rest of her life in Washington, D.C., and died in 1940 at age seventy-six.