Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Kidd, R. N., Genevieve E. October 7, 1876 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 101-102
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     GENEVIEVE E. KIDD opened the Portland Doctors Exchange & Nurses Registry 
on the 1st of November, 1917, and has successfully conducted the same through 
the intervening period of more than a decade. She was born in Morrison, 
Illinois, October 7, 1876, her parents being William A. and Emeline A. 
(Ingerson) Kidd, the former born at Marshall, Michigan, in 1853 and the latter 
at Pillar Point, New York, in 1854. Their marriage was celebrated at 
Prophetstown, Illinois, and the father followed railroading throughout his 
active career. The mother passed away October 9, 1922, leaving a family of 
three sons and two daughters, namely: Joseph M. and Roy V., both of Portland; 
Leslie A., who resides in the state of Washington; Genevieve E., of this 
review; and Laura A., now Mrs. Lee Wood Crutcher, living in Los Angeles.

     Genevieve E. Kidd pursued a high school course at the place of her 
nativity and was trained for the profession of nursing in Hahnemann Hospital 
of Chicago. She was active as a nurse in private duty for thirteen years prior 
to coming to Portland in June, 1914, and here engaged in professional work by 
the hour for a period of three years. It was on the 1st of November, 1917, as 
above stated, that she opened the Doctors Exchange & Nurses Registry of 
Portland, of which she has remained at the head to the present time. 
Registries for nurses have been in effect for a quarter of a century, but 
doctors' exchanges have been conducted for only about twelve years and Miss 
Kidd opened the third office of this kind in the United States. Through this 
medium physicians and dentists may be obtained at any time and private nurses 
are sent all over the city and outlying towns as well as throughout the 
Pacific northwest. For the protection of the public only professional men who 
are eligible to membership in the City and County Medical Society or the 
Dental Association are registered in this office. The value of a service of 
this type to the public especially stands out at a time like the flu epidemic 
of 1918. Every available physician and nurse made visits early and late, 
keeping in touch with this central office. Nurses systematically received 
orders and were sent by the hour, covering homes where no nursing care would 
have been possible otherwise. A helpful auxilliary to the exchange service is 
the sterile emergency supplies and rental of appliances for the residence 
sickroom. Miss Kidd is a member of the Business & Professional Women's Club of 
Portland, the Oregon State Nurses Association, the Oregon State League of 
Nursing and the Chicago Hahnemann Hospital Alumni, now the Chicago Memorial, 
while her religious faith is indicated by her membership in the First 
Presbyterian church of Portland. She has won many warm friends in her adopted 
city and is widely known and highly esteemed as a woman of marked professional 
skill and splendid business ability.

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