Tulare County Biographies

MISS KATHARINE STACY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        During the nearly twenty years of her residence in Tulare, Miss 
Katharine Stacy, proprietor of the Tulare Hospital, has rendered a most 
beneficent service in behalf of the large community her institutional activities 
thus have served. A trained nurse, with some years of practical experience in 
old, established hospitals of the east, Miss Stacy came to California on a visit 
in 1908 and while in Tulare was attracted to the possibilities inherent in the 
hospital that had been established by Miss Truitt in that city the year before. 
Returning east, she closed out her interests there, made arrangements for 
permanent residence in California and then returned here and on December 1st of 
that year (1908) purchased Miss Truitt's hospital plant and has since been 
successfully engaged in operating it.
        Since taking over this hospital Miss Stacy has made many improvements 
along the lines of modern equipment, has greatly extended the facilities of the 
institution and has long been recognized as a leader in her line in this section 
of the state. The Tulare Hospital is pleasantly and advantageously located at 
No. 134 North G street and is thoroughly up to date in its equipment, 
particularly with respect to the facilities offered in the modern surgery which 
Miss Stacy erected some time after she had come into possession of the hospital, 
and which, in common with the other facilities of the hospital, is open to all 
reputable physicians practicing in this section of the state, the demand thus 
made upon the facilities of this admirable institution being convincing evidence 
of the real need it has filled in the community since its present proprietor 
took hold of it and got it started in the right direction. Miss Stacy employs 
none but trained nurses in her hospital and the service is all that can be 
desired, as is amply attested by the constant call made upon this service.
        Miss Katharine Stacy is a native of Kansas, born in Iola, in that state, 
but was reared in Illinois, her parents, John L. and Emily R. (Young) Stacy, 
having moved to Iola, in the latter state, during the days of her girlhood, and 
she thus had her schooling in Illinois. As a girl she was impressed with the 
opportunities for humane service open in the profession of nursing and after a 
period of intensive practical training in this exacting and difficult field in 
hospitals in Chicago, she became an accredited trained nurse and had for some 
time been engaged in the practice of that noble profession when in 1908 she made 
her visit into California, as above narrated, and was so much taken with the 
opportunity for service in this delightful valley that she decided to devote the 
remainder of her life to such a beneficent service here. With that end in view 
she bought the Tulare Hospital and entered upon her noble labors here. Miss 
Stacy is a republican and has ever given a good citizen's attention to civic 
affairs and to the general good works of the community, though her chief 
interest, very properly, centers in her hospital work, and in that connection 
she is recognized as a personal factor of large importance in the community.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., p. 323