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    "title": "Kiel, Sophia V. x-filed Keil",
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    "ocrText": "LIFE INSURANCE\nPHONE 2-4091\nLIFE ANNUITIES\nNATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY\nOF VERMONT\nW. C. MISSIMER, DISTRICT MANAGER\n916 POPLAR STREET\nERIE. PENNSYLVANIA\nApril 11, 1956\nAPRIS\nMiss Virginia B. Elliman, Director\nThe walk ROOM is\nDisaster Nursing and Nurse Enrollment\nAmerican National Red Cross\nNational Headquarters\nWashington 13, D.C.\nDear Miss Elliman:\nI thank you so much for your letter of April 4th in which\nyou enclosed copies of two letters from Miss Keil. This material is invaluable\nto me and straightens out several complications concerning which I desired\nenlightenment.\nYou may have Miss Keil's name registered as \"Kiel\" but it\nshould be spelled \"Keil\" and pronounced \"Keel\". Sophia V. Keil is now seventy-\nsix (76) years old. She lives with my sister, Florence C. Missimer, at Butler\nHall, New York City. The address is Butler Hall, 88 Morningside Drive, New York\nCity, N.Y. My sister, as you know, graduated with Miss Keil in 1908 from\nSt. Luke's Hospital. Since Miss Keil's tragic accident in San Francisco in May\n1923, my sister has devoted her life to taking care of her, in addition to her\ninstitutional work at St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, where she was employed\nas a supervisor until her retirement two years ago.\nTwo of the nurses who went abroad with Miss Keil in 1914 are\nstill living - - there may be others but I do not have the names of any. The\naddresses of these two are:\nMiss Fredericka Farley\nMiss Florence Farmer\nNurses' House, Inc.\n310 Cumberland St.\nHotel Shelton\nBrooklyn 38, N.Y.\n522 Lexington Ave.\nNew York City, N.Y.\nI wrote both Miss Farley and Miss Farmer. Miss Farley replied\nand answered my questions. I have not received any reply from Miss Farmer. It\nis possible that the address, 310 Cumberland Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. is wrong but\nit is the one that Miss Farley supplied me.\nI wrote St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, for some information\nand I regret to say that this hospital was most uncooperative, stating that they\nhad very few employment records prior to 1926 and, therefore, they could not give\nme the information I desired. I merely mention this in passing. You have been\nmost co-operative.\nMy article is from one-half to two-thirds completed. I have\ngotten to where Miss Keil began her service on the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON. In"
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