Dame, Harriet P. (1815-1900)

Name:

Dame, Harriet P. (1815-1900)

Title:

President, Army Nurses Association

Other Names:

Dame, Harriet Patience

Born:

01/05/1815

Birthplace:

Barnstead, NH

Died:

04/24/1900

Death Location:

Concord, NH

Residence:

Barnstead, NH -- born and raised
Concord, NH 1843-1861
Washington, DC 1865, 1867-1899

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Boarding House Operator
Nurse, 2nd Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, 1861-1865
Seamstress
Clerk, United States Treasury, 1867-1895

Father:

Dame, James Chadbourne (1770-1859)

Mother:

Ayers, Phebe Agnes (1772-1854)

Relations:

Great nephew: Sidney B. Blaisdell (1895-1977; b. Providence, RI; son of Addie Briggs and Sidney Blaisdell of RI; grandson of Harriet Newell Shackford and Samuel Leburton Blaisdell of NH; great-grandson of Mary Ellen Dame and Willaim M. Shackford; was given Civil War souvenirs by Mary Ellen's sister, Harriet Dame -- 1991.044)
Siblings:
Dame, Joseph (1796-1884; b. Barnstead, NH; m. Ursula Mitchchell Hall 1820 in Maine; children; d. Wisconsin)
Dame, John (1799-1892; b. Barnstead, NH; m. Anna Mary Drew; children; res., d. Wisconsin)
Dame, Eilza (1802-1849; b. Barnstead; m. William Nutter; children; res., d. Concord, NH
Dame, George (1809-1863; b. Barnstead; m. Julia A. Davis; children; res., d. Concord, NH)
Dame, Mary Ellen (1810-1902; b. Barnstead; m. William M. Shackford; children, including Harriet Newell Shackford 1831-1906 of Concord NH, who married Samuel Leburton Blaisdell)
Grandparents: Elizabeth Walker (1745-1843) and Mark Ayers (1742-), both of Newington, NH; Patience Chadbourne (1746-1826 of York, ME) and Joseph Dame (1743-1773 of Newington and Barnstead, NH).
Great-grandparents: Sarah Nutter (1712-1751) and Edward Walker (1713-); Bridget Knight (1721-1811) and James Chadbourne (1714-1764); Mehitable Hall (1730-1769) and Joseph Dam[e] (1719-1807)

Spouse:

(none)

Children:

(none)

Notes:

Portrait of Harriet Dame hangs in the New Hampshire State House. Commissioned by State of N.H. 1901; artist Caroline Ormes Ransom.
Harriet P. Dame Elementary School, Concord, NH, established in her memory.
Buried with full military honors in Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH

Granville P. Conn, History of the New Hampshire Surgeons in the War of the Rebellion. (Concord, New Hampshire: Ira C. Evans company, 1906), 22-26.