“Dr. Rose Kidd Beere 1859-1927”

Performed by Rebecca A. Hunt, Ph.D.

Rose Kidd Beere was a doctor in Colorado in the nineteenth century. In 1892, she moved to Durango to practice medicine. In 1895 Governor Alva Adams asked her to take over the new State Home for Dependent and Neglected Children in Denver. In 1898, the First Colorado Infantry went to the Philippines during the Spanish-American War; and she went too, not as a doctor but as a nurse. After a year, she returned to Denver and became health officer for the Denver Public Schools. She was the doctor at the Poor Farm and ran Denver General Hospital. Dr. Rebecca Hunt will present a first-person account of Rose Kidd Beere‘s life.

Rebecca A. Hunt, is a third-generation Casper native, currently dividing her time between her Denver home and her family home on Casper Mountain. She graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1974 and the University of Oklahoma in 1997 and earned a Ph.D. in Western American History from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is on the advisory committee for History Colorado’s Center for Colorado Women’s History. 

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