GO WEST, YOUNG NURSE, GO WEST!
By
Arletta Dawdy
Jane
Arminda Delano heeded the call from New York’s Dr. Thomas Darlington, an old
family friend and went to a “dusty mining camp in the Arizona Territory,”
sometime in 1886. She may have been there a few months or upwards of three
years for the record is lacking. Born in Montour Falls, New York in March of
1862, she was daughter of Union General George Delano and Mary Wright Delano
and younger sister of Ada. The death of Jane’s father in the fever driven death
march to the Battle of New Orleans inspired her to train at Bellevue Hospital
to become a nurse.