![]() ![]() Mahoney's training required she spend at least one year in the hospital's various wards to gain universal nursing knowledge. Mahoney worked nearly 16 hours daily for the 15 years that she worked as a laborer. It is presumed that the administration accepted Mahoney, despite not meeting the age criteria, because of her connection to the hospital through prior work as a cook, maid, and washerwoman there when she was 18 years old. The criteria in which the hospital utilized while choosing students for their program emphasized that the 40 applicants would be "well and strong, between the ages of 21 and 31, and have a good reputation as to character and disposition." The NEHWC became the first institution to offer such a program allowing women to work towards entering the healthcare industry, which was predominantly led by men. She was admitted into a 16-month program at the New England Hospital for Women and Children (now the Dimock Community Health Center) at the age of 33, alongside 39 other students in 1878. Mahoney knew early on that she wanted to become a nurse possibly due to seeing immediate emergence of nurses during the American Civil War. From then, Mahoney did not marry and remained single for the rest of her life. The engagement did not last long and left both parties emotionally damaged. Mahoney was briefly engaged to an unknown doctor some time during her life, although it is speculated to have happened around her early 20s. It is said this instruction influenced Mahoney's early interest in nursing. Phillips School was known for teaching its students the value of morality and humanity, alongside general subjects such as English, History, Arithmetic, and more. Mahoney was admitted into the Phillips School at age 10, one of the first integrated schools in Boston, and stayed from first to fourth grade. At a young age, Mahoney was a loyal Baptist and churchgoer who frequently attended People's Baptist Church in Roxbury. Mahoney was the oldest of two children with one sibling dying early on as a child. Mahoney's parents were freed slaves, originally from North Carolina, who moved north before the Civil War in pursuit of a life with less racial discrimination. Fifty years after her death, Mary was inducted into the American Nurses's Association's Hall of Fame.Mary Eliza Mahoney was born in 1845 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. In 1936, the association created an award in her honor. She remained a member of the NACGN until her death from breast cancer in 1926. ![]() That year she was awarded a lifetime membership to the NACGN. In 1911, she was working as director of the Howard Orphan Asylum for Black Children in Kings Park, Long Island. Mary gave the first welcoming address of the organization a year later. Because of the prejudice and very few blacks being in this association, she became a cofounder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses in 1908. In 1896, she became a member of the predominately white Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States of America and Canada. She was the first African American in history to earn her nursing license.Īfter graduating, she left the New England Hospital for Women and Children to do private duty nursing. There were forty two students that entered the program and she was one of the four that completed the program. In March 1878, she was admitted to the nursing program there. Her work there included being a cook, janitor, washerwoman, and an unofficial nurses aid. She began working at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Mary became interested in nursing when she was a teenager. Her parents were Charles and Mary Jane Stewart Mahoney. Mary Eliza Mahoney was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1945. ![]()
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