US Army Nurse No Date
Out of the book "The part taken by women in American history"
By Mrs. John A. Logan
Women from the Time of Mary
Mrs Lauretta H Hoisington as Miss Cutter served thirteen months in hospitals in Chattanooga Tennessee She is 85 years of age and resides in Palo Alto California

NON-COMBATANTS
Lauretta Cutter Hoisington
Wife of Rev. William Henry Hoisington
Nurse
Served under Dorothea Dix at hospitals No. 1 and 2 at Chattanooga TN during 1864-1865.

Served during the Civil War as a matron and nurse from 19 May 1864 to 4 Jun 1865

Lauretta H Cutter Hoisington was born in 1826 in Ohio which was then known as a part of the Western Reserve or New Connecticut This makes Mrs Hoisington just 83 years of age yet in spite of the weight of years this Temple sister is in full possession of mental vigor and as keenly alive to all the vital issues of life and being as she was forty years ago Her physical activity and ability is also a constant source of wonderment to all her associates at Temple Headquarters on the working staff of which she has been a member since 1905. During the last year of the Civil War Mrs Hoisington was with the Union Army as a nurse and was stationed most of the time at Chattanooga Tenn She is now an enthusiastic and honored member of the Association of Army Nurses and never misses an annual State or National Convention if she can help it. 1870 and 1871 Mrs Hoisington resided at Jackson Florida and taught in the schools there She took an active part in the anti slavery issue before the war and was personally acquainted with John Brown and his family residing for years in the same town in Ashtabula County Ohio with them She recalls many incidents in which she was more or less also personally concerned of great interest and excitement occasioned by John Brown's campaigns in some of which she and other friends of this earnest agitator had narrow escapes from being hauled up by the authorities for exceeding the bounds prescribed at that time by the law in the interest of the slaveholders In 1872 she was in charge of the Female Department of the City Hospital of Cleveland Ohio and from 1873 to 1876 had charge of the Lying in Departemnt for fallen girls in the same city as well as being connected with the department for general diseases Mrs Hoisington's maiden name was Cutter In 1880 she married the Rev WH Hoisington a remarkable man in many ways He was a deep thinker and a man of scholarly attainments Born with defective eyesight he became totally blind later in life and was known as the old blind preacher He and Mrs Hoisington joined the Theosophical Society in 188 1 being some of the first to be enrolled in the Middle West affiliating with the Chicago branch Mrs Hoisington read theosophical literature to her husband for twenty years He died in 1900 at Rochelle 111 She joined the Temple in 1899 and attended the first convention held in Syracuse of that year In 1905 Sister Hoisington came to Temple Headquarters to live and is now a devoted and efficient member of the staff doing each day the duty that comes to hand and working faithfully to advance in every way possible the Temple plan and work as given by the Master This sister is truly an exanlple of sturdy devotion to all that the Great Lodge seeks to externalize in human conditions And her ripeness of soul and mind and the good work she has accomplished is surely as a beacon left of the old pioneer stock of brave souls that laid the foundations that others are now reaping the benefit of May her tribe ever increase