Collection Name
Collection Name
About
About
Civic & Community
Media Items
Media Items
Media Items
ItemID
acwh007
IDEntry
2656
Creator
Text - Albert Feldstein
Collection Location
Allegany County, Maryland
Coverage
Allegany County, Maryland
Body
Ricka N. Rosenbaum, 1853-1948 and Fannie Rosenbaum, 1853-1918
In 1888, Ricka and her sister-in-law, Fannie, served with a group of ladies to establish the “Home and Infirmary of Western Maryland.” This later became Western Maryland Hospital(1892), forerunner of Memorial Hospital (1929), and the Western Maryland Health System in 1996.
Notes
Further information on the Home and Infirmary is found on the Maryland Archives website. The postcard of the Western Maryland Hospital is from the collection of Al Feldstein.