Mary Arvin

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This file appears in: Nurse Mary W. Arvin
Mary Arvin

This portrait of Mary Arvin was painted by Mary Lou Hall in 2006 for the Kentucky Commission on Women. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Nurse Mary W. Arvin

By Whitney Todd
Historic Marker #2241 in Henderson County notes the location of the home of famed nurse Mary W. Arvin. On April 21, 1879, Mary was born in Henderson, Kentucky, to William Meade and Beattie Towles Arvin. In 1904, she graduated from the School of…