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During a period of rapid growth in pediatrics and medicine generally, Dorothy Andersen was one of the brightest stars: she was modest, even shy, and her personal background was mostly unimpressive, at least at first glance.
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Indeed, several of Hans Peter’s siblings also graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy, and one of his brothers – Christian P. Andersen – also graduated from Dartmouth in 1889.
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She likely graduated with a “collegiate certificate” from Rockford, similar to that of the reformer Jane Addams, who attended Rockford a few years earlier (and was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1931).
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Likely related to a childhood bout of rheumatic fever, as suggested by Libby Machol.
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Libby Machol notes that they married in Chicago, but the entry for Hans Peter Andersen in Who’s Who in New York City and State specifies Jersey City, where Louise was raised and her parents lived.
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She died in Asheville in 1894 and was buried with her husband in Chicago.
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Hansine is the feminine form of Hans, and it was then a popular girl’s name on Bornholm.
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An obituary notice for Louise in the St. Johnsbury Republican suggested that Dorothy had siblings who did not survive early childhood; additional evidence supporting this contention is not available, though it is certainly a possibility.
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It is possible that Dorothy accompanied her parents on one of their summertime trips to Europe as suggested by Libby Machol, though it could not have been when she was 13 years old as Machol suggested: Hans Peter died prior to Dorothy’s thirteenth birthday. In any event, it is easy to envision how such a trip might contribute to Dorothy’s lifetime interest in travel and other cultures.
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Baird, J.S. (2022). A Beginning. In: Dorothy Hansine Andersen. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87484-1_1
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