Thoms, Adah B

LC control no.	n 84125530
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Thoms, Adah B. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Located	Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Raleigh (N.C.)
Birth date	1870-01-12
Death date	1943-02-21
Place of birth	Richmond (Va.)
Place of death	Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Affiliation	Lincoln Hospital (New York, N.Y.). School of Nursing Lincoln Hospital (New York, N.Y.). School of Nursing Lincoln Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
Profession or occupation	Nurses Civil rights workers Authors
Found in	Her Pathfinders, a history of the progress of colored graduate nurses, 1985: CIP t.p. (Adah B. Thoms) CIP galley (R.N., formerly assist. supt., Lincoln Hosp. Sch. of Nurs., New York City) NLM files, 10/18/84 (hdg.: Thoms, Adah B.) African American women, 1993: pages 510-512 (Adah (Samuels) Thoms, 1870-1943. Born January 12. Moved to Harlem in the 1890s then enrolled at the Women's Infirmary and School of Therapeutic Massage, graduating in 1900. Worked as a nurse in New York City and in Raleigh, N.C., then returned to NYC where she entered the School of Nursing at Lincoln Hospital in 1903 and graduated in 1905. After graduating, worked at Lincoln Hospital as an operating room nurse and supervisor of the surgical division while also serving as acting director of the Nursing School 1908-1923. Worked to allow black nurses to serve in the Red Cross during World War I. Formed the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) and wrote "Pathfinders: a history of the progress of colored graduate nurses", published in 1929.) Find a Grave (online), viewed December 25, 2020 (Adah Bell Samuels Thoms, born in Richmond, Virginia, died February 21, 1943 in Manhattan, New York, N.Y.)
Associated language	eng