Phoebe yates pember biography of barack
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Pember, Phoebe Yates (1823–1913)
Confederate hospital administrator. Born Phoebe Yates Levy on August 18, 1823, in Charleston, South Carolina; died on March 4, 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; fourth of seven children of Jacob Clavius Levy (a businessman) and Fanny (Yates) Levy; married Thomas Pember (died July 1861); no children.
Phoebe Pember was born in 1823 and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, the fourth of seven children, all but one of them girls.
Her father, whose family had immigrated to Charleston from Poland, was a successful businessman and an early advocate of Reformed Judaism.
Phoebe yates pember biography of barack
Her mother was English. Little is known about Pember's early life, although her letters and reminiscences indicate that she was well educated. Sometime during the late 1850s she married Thomas Pember of Boston, who died of tuberculosis in 1861.
Pember returned to her parents' home and with the advent of the Civil War moved with them to Marietta, Georgia, where they resided with rela