"In 1900 my great-grandmother, Alice Ada Wood Ellis, had one year of nurses’ training, no license, and called herself a nurse. She was a single mother with two small children Myrtle 2 ½ years of age and Marie a 6-month-old baby. She ventured to Seattle on a locomotive steam train. She placed two beds in her front parlor and ran a birthing service, for a fee, in her own home in Green Lake WA. This is her story" Susan E. Fleming