History
On July 1, 1899, six Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis moved to Rockford at the request of the citizens to open a hospital. The order had previously moved to America from Prussia in 1875, when Otto von Bismarck banned religious orders from the country. With the help of the real estate agent William Crotty, the sisters were able to purchase a house on the corner of East State St. and Summit St. Community members donated the supplies and furniture for the first hospital.
Read more about this topic: OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.... It is not “history” which uses men as a means of achieving—as if it were an individual person—its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“History takes time.... History makes memory.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)