ISABEL ADAMS HAMPTON ROBB

MRS. (DR.) HUNTER ROBB

Crushed Between Street Cars Whilst Dodging An Auto

Public Honors and Universal Sympathy

[Welland Tribune, 21 April 1910]

In addition to the report of Mrs. (Dr.) Hunter Robb’s death previously published, we take the following from the Cleveland papers:

Mrs. Robb, 50, wife of Dr. Hunter Robb, 1960 E. 97^th st., dodging into the “devil strip” between the car tracks to escape an auto, was crushed between two cars running in opposite directions. This was on Friday last. Her companion, Miss Cora Canfield, principal of Hathaway Brown school, barely escaped.

Mrs. Robb was a woman of international renown. She stood first in the profession of nursing, modern methods of which she originated and she wrote text books that are standards of training here and abroad.

She was chairman of the International Nurses’ Association that met in London, Eng., last year. She began her career as a student nurse at Bellevue hospital, New York, when she was 19. Later she went to Rome where she studied and nursed. She was married to Dr. Robb in England, and was presented to Queen Victoria. She returned to the United States to take charge of the training department of the Cook Co. hospital at Chicago. From there she went to Baltimore to organize the training school for nurses in connection with the celebrated John Hopkins hospital.

She was married to Dr. Robb in England, and they have since lived in Cleveland. Besides her husband, two sons survive, aged 8 and 14 years. One son predeceased her.

FUNERAL

A public funeral ceremony was held in Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, on Wednesday. The funeral was attended by all the nurses in the city, as well as a great number from other cities. Mrs. Adelaide Nutting, of Columbia University, and Mrs. Anna Maxwell, of the Presbyterian hospital of New York, with hundreds of local and visiting physicians were present.

NURSES’ APPRECIATION

Miss B. Secord, superintendent of the St. Clair hospital, who graduated from the John Hopkins training school organized by Mrs. Robb, wrote the following appreciation of her:

The death of Mrs. Hunter Robb is the greatest loss to the nursing profession that could possibly be. There is absolutely no one to take her place.

Mrs. Robb was really the originator and the life of nursing in this country and abroad.

It was her broad view and appreciation of what nursing should be that made her the mother of modern nursing methods. And it was her enthusiasm and force that carried them to the high measure of success they have attained.

Mrs. Robb was without question the leader in advanced nursing in this country. Her work on the “Principles and Practice of Nursing” is known abroad as well as here, and is the textbook for most training schools in this country and many abroad. Her book on the “Ethics of Nursing” forms the standard of present practice.

Her work for the profession elevated nursing both intellectually and socially. When she went to Baltimore, educated women had not largely gone into the profession. But she attracted a superior class of women to it.

Another phase of character that has made her leadership so strong was her absolute loyalty to nurses. She was always ready to defend. But she was also ready to criticize. She wanted everyone in the profession to have the same.

Thoroughness was her watchword.

Welland Tribune
21 April 1910
Died: 15 April 1910
Married: 11 July 1894
Fonthill Cemetery
26 August 1859-15 April 1910
Accident
Father: Samuel Hampton   Mother: Sarah Mary Lay