HIGBEE-LENAH
SECOND SUPERINTENDENT OF
NAVY NURSE CORPS
Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee was a Navy medical pioneer, one of the “Sacred Twenty,” the first group of nurses to become official members of the Navy Nurse Corps. She was born on May 18, in Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada. She graduated in from nurse’s training at New York Postgraduate Hospital and this same year was married to LTCOL John Henley Higbee, USMC, then worked for a time in private practice before completing further graduate education at Fordham University.
On May 13, , Congress passed legislation allowing for the establishment of the Navy Nurse Corps, the equivalent of the Army Nurse Corps which was established in and had become highly successful. The Navy required members to be the graduate of an accredited nursing school, between the ages of 22 and 44, and unmarried. As LTCOL Higbee had died on April 19,, Lenah Higbee was a widow and thus an eligible candidate for the newly established Navy Nurse Corps. The thirty-six year old Higbee joined with nineteen other females to make up this first group of female Navy nurses who soon became well known as the “Sacre
nurseofficer Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee was a pioneering Canadian-born United States Navy chief nurse, who served as Superintendent of the United States. Navy Nurse Corps during World War I. She is best known for being the first female recipient of the Navy Cross. Higbee was born Lenah H. Sutcliffe in Chatham, Canada, on 18 May She completed nurses&#; training at the New York Postgraduate Hospital in and entered private practice soon thereafter. Lenah Higbee took postgraduate training at Fordham Hospital, New York in and in October , she joined the newly established United States. Navy Nurse Corps as one of its first twenty members. She was promoted to Chief Nurse in Lenah Higbee became chief nurse at Norfolk Naval Hospital in April Lenah, circa Lenah Higbee, a life that deserves to be remembered Originally Canadian, born May 18, (*1) in New Brunswick, Canada, Lenah Higbee (nee: Sutcliffe), immigrated to the US to attend nursing school at the New York Post Graduate Hospital [now NYU Medical], where she completed her nurse’s certification. She did further graduate study at Fordham University, in the Bronx and she also began her own private nursing practice. In she met John H Higbee, a widower and retired Marine Lt. Colonel. They courted and were married that year.(*2) He was in service for many years, beginning in , in the US Civil War. Through marriage Lenah immediately became a naturalized US citizen, by laws at that time (which stood until , when US sentiment turned largely anti-immigrant). John was approximately three decades older than she. In April, Lenah became a widow when John passed away. They had no children, although it’s possible John had children from his earlier marriage. The very next month the US Congress passed legislation to form the Navy Nurse Corps. It became law when it was signed by President “Teddy” Roosevelt. On 1 October, , Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee became one the fi
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In January , Higbee (she was the widow of Lieutenant Colonel John Henley Higbee, United States Marine Corps) became the second Superintendent of the Nurse Corps.
She resigned from the position of Superintendent and retired from the Navy on 23 November Navy Cross citation Date of Action: The Navy Cross is awarded to Lenah Sutcli
A hero of World War I, Lenah Higbee is recognized as the first female recipient of the Navy Cross.
She grew the NNC from to over nurses, served on multiple healthcare committees to prepare the Red Cross for the impacts of World War I, began training hospital corpsmen, and survived the Spanish flu epidemic. She also lobbied for expanded healthcare for military dependents, and formalized Navy nursing uniforms bearing the oak leaf and acorn over an anchor. Her efforts in shaping the NNC caused one paper to conclude “the
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