Hannah A. Kallem (August 18, 1865 — June 16, 1937) was a Norwegian-born American army nurse.

Early life

Hannah A. Kallem was born in

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, Norway, the daughter of Samuel Kallem and Anne Serina Nedrebøe Kallem. She moved to the United States as a very young child, when her parents emigrated in 1867. Her mother died later that year, and the surviving family including young Hannah eventually settled in

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.Algot E. Strand
''A History of the Norwegians of Illinois''
(J. Anderson Publishing 1905): 384. She studied nursing in

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, completing her training in 1894.

Career

Kallem had a long career as a nurse in the

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. She was a member of the Order of Spanish American War Nurses. She served in the Philippines in 1909. and was assigned to various military bases in the United States, in Arkansas, Maryland, New Mexico, and California. She worked during an epidemic at

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in 1898, reporting in a published letter that "I heard that we have 500

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cases here." She was at a gathering of Spanish American War nurses at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis."War Nurses Meet at World's Fair" ''St. Louis Republic'' (November 8, 1904): 5. via

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Personal life

Hannah A. Kallem retired in 1928 and died at

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in San Francisco in 1937, aged 71 years. Her remains were buried at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kallem, Hannah 1865 births 1937 deaths American nurses American women nurses People from Haugesund Norwegian emigrants to the United States Burials at San Francisco National Cemetery