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Early Hospital — What's This?

John J. Emery and his brother Thomas Emery, husband of Cincinnati Children’s co-founder Mary Emery, gifted the hospital land and a new building in 1887 in part to memorialize Thomas and Mary’s teenage son, who died in an accident.

1887

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Two Cincinnati real estate developers and industrialists, the brothers John J. and Thomas Emery, donate land and a new, 20-bed building for the hospital’s second home.

Early Patients — What's This?

Cincinnati Children’s began humbly in a residential home and was committed to providing free care to poor children without regard to race, creed or color. Co-founder Mary Emery was a generous philanthropist and benefactor throughout her life, later using her husband’s vast fortune to fund other hospitals, orphanages, schools and colleges.

1883

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Three civic-minded Episcopalian women — Mrs. Robert (Nellie Phillips) Dayton, Isabelle Hopkins and Mary Emery — establish a hospital to care for sick children in the Diocese of Southern Ohio. Cincinnati Children’s begins life as the Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church, a 12-bed facility converted from a three-bedroom house in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati.

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