TEXT ` ■Hoge, Jane Currie Blaikie1811╨1890welfare workerBorn in Philadelphia on July 31, 1811, Jane Blaikie was educated at the Young Ladies╒ College in that city. In June 1831 she married Abraham H. Hoge, a Pittsburgh merchant. Over the next several years, in addition to caring for her large family, Jane Hoge found time to serve as secretary of the Pittsburgh Orphan Asylum. In 1848 the Hoges moved to Chicago, where in 1858 Jane Hoge helped found and direct the Home for the Friendless. The enlistment of two of her sons in the Union army at the beginning of the Civil War drew her into volunteer nursing work at Camp Douglas, near Chicago. By late 1861 Hoge and her friend Mary A. Livermore were working with the Chicago (later Northwestern) Sanitary Commission under Eliza Chappell Porter. About that time they were also appointed agents of Dorothea Dix, superintendent of army nurses, to recruit nurses for service in hospitals in the Western department. In March 1862 they made a tour of army hospitals in Cairo and Mound City, Illinois, in St. Louis, in Paducah, Kentucky, and elsewhere. In December 1862, after attending a general conference of U.S. Sanitary Commission leaders in Washington, D.C., the two women were appointed associate directors of the Chicago branch. The work demanded of them was great and ceaseless. By letters, addresses, and other means they aroused and maintained at high pitch the work of upwards of a thousand local aid societies throughout the Northwest in collecting and forwarding clothing, medical and hospital supplies, food, and other materials. During 1863 Jane Hoge made three trips to the front in the Vicksburg campaign, combining inspection of the logistics system with nursing of soldiers. During July╨October 1863 Hoge and Livermore temporarily stepped aside from their posts to organize and direct the great Sanitary Fair in Chicago, a two-week fund-raising extravaganza that raised over $70,000 for the Chicago office. Their success prompted the holding of similar events in eastern cities in 1864. At the end of the war a great many public tributes were paid to Hoge and Livermore for their work. In 1867 Hoge published an account of her wartime experiences as The Boys in Blue. In 1871 she organized a fund-raising campaign that financed the founding of the Evanston College for Ladies, which opened in September of that year under Frances Willard. From 1872 to 1885 she headed the Woman╒s Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in the Northwest. She died in Chicago on August 26, 1890. vstyl ` ! ¬ 5¬ $ 5¬ 4 !I ç 5¬ ê !I ⌐ !I ▐ ║ !I !I ▐ !I S !I ▐ _ !I ╒ 5¬ ╓ !I ┤ !I ─ !I a !I ▐ p !I Nlink ` HYPR ⌐ ║HYPR HYPR S _HYPR a p
