Mrs. Fanny Titus Hazen, past president of the Army Nurses, the granddaughter of a soldier of the Revolutionary Army, was born in Vershire, Vermont, May 2, 1840. As was the case with a number of others, when she applied to Miss Dix for an appointment, she was told that she was too young, but because she had two brothers, one seventeen and the other eighteen, in the service, she begged to be allowed to stay and was finally accepted and sent to Columbia Hospital, Washington, where she stayed until it closed, June 27, 1865. From the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, her youngest brother was brought to her wounded, and she nursed him until he recovered. Mrs. Hazen lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Source: Mrs. John A. Logan, The Part Taken By Women in American History, the Perry-Nalle Publishing Co., Wilmington, DE, 1912, p. 362.

Another biography, with significantly more information, is Representative Women of New England, by Juliet Ward Howe and Mary Elvira Elliott, New England Historical Publishing Company, Boston, 1904, pp. 466-469.