Davenport Hospital; Sarah Foulks, M.D.; Stokley

Collection

Identifier: 2009-20

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Collection of nine images taken in 1911 and 1912 of the Davenport Hospital, nurses home, and staff members. The hospital and nurses home was located on East 29th Street (East Twenty-nineth Street).

Dates

Creation: circa 1911-1912

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

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Biographical / Historical

Sarah Elizabeth Foulks was born on October 12, 1880 on the family farm in Burlington Township, New Jersey, the second of four sisters. She and two sisters attended Normal School. She later attended an osteopathic type program, and then Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, graduating in 1907. According to the family story, she and several other doctors started the Davenport Hospital after that. They trained nurses there, including her sister-in-law “Motz” Martha Stokley who then worked in Europe during World War I. Martha later married Robert McCosh and lived in Davenport.

Sara headed the American Women’s Hospitals in Athens, Greece in the the early 1920’s-a volunteer effort to aid Greek refugees returning to Greece from Turkey. She received a medal from the Greek king-and was let go due to lack of funds.

Dr. Sara E. Foulks appears to have made Davenport, Iowa her home from 1911 until 1924.

Sara spent some years working at Elwyn Training School outside Philadelphia. She retired about 1950 and died in 1962.