Materials relating to Martha G. Young:

One copy of "The Cranium, 1937," yearbook for the Philadelphia Osteopathic Hospital School of Nursing.  This book contains many autographs.  Martha's photograph and description is on page 24.

One program for "Commencement Exercises, School of Nursing, Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia," 17 September 1937.

One brochure picturing the Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia, and the nurses' residence.

Martha Gibbel Young was raised in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and was a member of the Church of the Brethren.  Throughout her life, Martha never cut her hair. During this period in history, when joining the Church of the Brethren, a women promised not to cut her hair following the instruction found in 1 Cor. II. The Archivist, Jeanine Wine, Martha's Great-Niece, can remember as a child watching Aunt Martha undo her hair and seeing it fall in splendid thick white waves way past Aunt Martha's hips.

Martha never married, and given her era and and cultural background, broke the norm by leaving her parents' home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to go to the large city of Philadelphia in order to study at the Philadelphia Osteopathic Hospital School of Nursing. Martha graduated from the program in 1937.  She would work as a nurse for the rest of her life.