Lost Family member Miriam Sydney Wood.

[nattai]

Hi

Can anyone help with information or guide me to finding a lost family member in NY.

She was Miriam Sydney Wood born 1898 in NY, her Father was George H Wood died 1912
Mother Miriam Wood nee Ainsworth died unknown.

The lead or information to date that I can find on Miriam Sydney Wood was that she was a Student nurse at Millard Fillmore Hospital, r875 Lafayette Avenue.
 
Name
Miriam Wood

Residence Year
1926

Residence Place
Buffalo, New York, USA

Occupation
Student Nurse

Publication Title
Buffalo, New York, City Directory, 1926

On the 1920 US census it shows Miriam Sydney Wood as US Army nurse stationed at the Henry Ford ?General hospital in Baltimore.
In 1918 she was a second lieutenant.

Any help finding out what happen to her after 1926 would be most appreciated as I have no other leads. I don't know if she got married after 1926.

Kind regards
Nattai  Tim 




 

[SLStephens]

I am confused.  You say she was a nurse in 1920, yet in 1926 she was a student nurse?  And she was a 2nd Lt. at age 20?

[nattai]

Hi SLstephens

Sorry to confuse you but that is what is states on the documents. I have tried to put them below, I do not know how the US works on these matters but it shows she was a nurse and a 2nd Lieutenant and in 1926 a student nurse, after 1926  I cant seem to locate her, or she may have married which I cant find,  I also thought that maybe later in life she may have received a military pension.

U.S., Army Transport Service, Passenger Lists, 1918
Name Miriam S Wood
Departure Date 24 Nov 1918
Departure Place New York, New York
Ship Olympic
Military Unit Anc
Rank Nurse
Notes Base Hospital No 69

U.S., Army Transport Service, Passenger Lists,1919.
Name Miriam S Wood
Departure Date 3 Jul 1919
Departure Place Brest, France
Arrival Date 13 Jul 1919
Arrival Place Hoboken, New Jersey
Ship Cap Finisterre
Military Unit  R A N C BH #69
Notes: Casual Nurses Detachment Evacuation Center Savenay
Search Photos  Cap Finisterre

1920 Census show she is a nurse at  Henry Ford Hospital Baltimore Ward 24, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland, Industry US Army.

U.S., Army Transport Service, Passenger Lists 1920
Name Miriam S Wood
Travel Date
15 Dec 1920
Destination place Honolulu
Arrival Place San Francisco, California
Ship Madawaska
Military Unit  Anc
Rank Second Lieutenant
Search Photos Madawaska Y

1926 U.S. City Directories,
Name Miriam Wood
Residence Year 1926
Residence Place Buffalo, New York, USA
Occupation  Student Nurse

I hope this helps a little to unconfuse you. But any help please would be appreciated.

Kind regards
Nattai Tim






 

[shellyesq]

Do you have any other evidence to indicate that the Miriam Wood in the Buffalo city directory is definitely the one you're looking for?  It's a common enough name that they may be another who is a nurse.

[Erato]

There was another Miriam Wood from Brooklyn [born 1892] who applied for passports in 1918, 1920 and 1922 for Red Cross "relief work" in Europe and the Middle East.  Her profession was secretary but maybe her work inspired her to come back and go to nursing school.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01lu2/

[Erato]

Miriam S. Wood of the Army Nurse Corps was transferred to the Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco in 1922.

[Nursing News and Announcements, 1922  -  see pages 570-571]

https://archive.org/stream/jstor-3407022/3407022#page/n5/mode/2up/search/miriam

[Erato]

Possible collaboration with Robert G. Bernreuter who did his Ph.D. studies in clinical psychology in Hawaii in the 1920s.

"This manual is typewritten "tentative edition" by Bernreuter and Miriam S. Wood. First page is an organization chart including names of personnel, descriptions of the responsibility of personnel, instructions for intake interview, explanations of forms used."  [written in 1931?]

http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OhAkAHA0293.xml;chunk.id=dsc_1;brand=default

[shellyesq]

There was another Miriam Wood from Brooklyn [born 1892] who applied for passports in 1918, 1920 and 1922 for Red Cross "relief work" in Europe and the Middle East.  Her profession was secretary but maybe her work inspired her to come back and go to nursing school.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01lu2/

That Miriam lists her father as Thomas Alfred Wood in her passport applications, but the father of the Miriam in this thread was George H. Wood.

[Erato]

Yes, that's why I said she was "another" Miriam Wood and possibly the one who was a student nurse in 1926.