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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: January 1, 2022
Caption: Wheeling Hospital Marker
Additional Description: Lower Left Photo
This painting by Anne Hazlett Foreman shows 23 year-old Sister Ignatius Farley nursing a wounded soldier. -Courtesy Wheeling Hospital Archives

Center Top Photo
Wheeling Hospital enlarged the Michael Sweeney mansion with several additions after the Civil War. The hospital was razed in 1929. Courtesy Wheeling Hospital Archives

Lower Right Photo
Gov. Francis H. Pierpont appointed Dr. John Frissell medical superintendant of the military prisoners and soldiers stationed at Wheeling. Frissell later served as chief surgeon of Wheeling Hospital and was the first presiden of the West Virginia Medical Society.
Dr. John Frissell
Courtesy Wheeling Hospital Archives
Submitted: January 3, 2022, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p631327
File Size: 3.696 Megabytes

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