Augusta Myrl Harrell November 12, 1887-December 1963 married Jesse Dulin and was a nurse in the hospital. I am not sure if the other woman had a personal relationship with the family or not.
Augusta Myrl Harrell was the daughter of Dr. Madison Harrell and wife Margaret Theodosa Huffman (married February 15, 1887 in Shelby County) and the granddaughter of George B Huffman & Mary Ann Plummer and Judge Wick "JW" Harrell & Lodema Ann Drake.
Harrell Hospital
Samuel S. Harrell, was born in Shelby County Indiana, the son of Judge Wick Harrell and his first wife Lodema Ann Drake. After graduate school, he and his brother Madison, settled in Noblesville, Hamilton County, Indiana and started a medical practice. Dr. Sam and his wife Vivian first lived in a log cabin and built a house in 1898. Their first two sons, Hahnemann Voss "Voss" Harrell and Samuel Runnels Harrell were born in the log cabin, and the third son Maurice Ticer Harrell was born in the Harrell house, which is now on the Historic Register. Unconfirmed research indicates that President Theodore Roosevelt stayed in the home in 1902, about the time that the Harrells were known for entertaining governors and politicians.
The Harrell house served as a medical facility and evolved into one of the first hospitals in the state. By 1907, the house had outgrown its ability to serve as a hospital and a home, so the Harrell brothers built a larger facility in Hamilton County which opened in May 1908. Known as the Harrell Hospital And Sanatorium, Drs. Samuel and Madison Harrell employed a staff of five nurses, and it was unusual in that it served as a nurses' training school. Located at 148 N. 9th Street, Noblesville, Indiana, it was considered very modern for it's time (both in procedures and equipment). Dr. Harrell was credited with performing one of the first blood transfusions in Indiana and possibly one of the first appendectomies on a family member. This facility was later sold to Hamilton County Jan 1, 1914 for $30,000 and administration was assumed by Mrs. Ida Goodlauder Webb, a registered nurse. She continued the nurse-training program and maintained two wards for count y indigents. The hospital became known as the Riverview Hospital which in 1999 established the Dr. Samuel Harrell Society in honor of its prominent "founding father."
The Harrell House is described is a 7,200 sq. foot, 12 room, Queen Anne Victorian style house, with a multi-gabled roof with cast iron cresting, polygonal tower capped by a cast-iron finial, wide, extended eaves with thick brackets, corbeled chimneys with crowning pots, stained glass windows on all three floors and a wrap-around classic revival raised porch along the east and north sides. The port and portico are supported by Tuscan columns. The interior was created with molded plaster ceilings of anaglyph floral designs, ornately-carved, dark-stained oak woodwork and decorative tile work around five fireplaces. It is registered as an historic landmark. The architect is not known, but Mrs. William Voss (Mary Alice Miesse Voss), Dr. Harrell's mother-in-law, assisted in the design. A study of the home by researcher John Elliott describes it thus: "The home is a fine example of well maintained architecture. In its early years, it served as one of the town' s first medical facilities. For years... a recognizable orientation point for the community." At one time, the house had alternations: side of porch enclosed 1931; aluminum siding (mid 1970's); rear entry enclosed and created small prep. room (1981-82), plus all utilities.
Next Harrell page from Mary Sesniak's collection Olive Lee's Harrell collection
Picture Index Main Page
