Isabel McIsaac

Isabel McIsaac was an American nurse and nursing administrator who became the third superintendent of the United States Army Nurse Corps on 1 April 1912. She was born in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1858 and graduated from the Illinois Training School thirty years later, then went into the administration of that school, becoming its superintendent in 1905. In 1898 she became president of the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses, and in 1904 she became president of the American Journal of Nursing Company. She served as Interstate secretary for the American Red Cross Nursing Service and was also president of the American Nurses Association. She resigned as Nurse Corps superintendent for health reasons, with the resignation set for 1 October 1914, but died on 21 September 1914, two weeks before that date.