By Randi Wise
In the 1870s, a hospital was desperately needed in Prescott. Help was sought from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet to open a hospital in the Prescott area. From the recently formed Western Provence in Tucson, Sisters Mary Martha and Mary Rose arrived in Prescott in the fall of 1878 with the financial aid of the Territorial Governor, John C. Fremont and his wife, Jessie. The Sisters opened their hospital in a small frame house on Alarcon and Willis streets. Their living quarters were in one half of the house and they treated sick and injured in the other half.
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