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1875

History of HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Sisters Jovita Janning, Gerburgis Wiling, and Sylvana Bosse arrived in Belleville, IL on November 13, 1875, and founded St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. The Sisters lived and worked in a one-story two-room house, a former schoolhouse of St. Peter’s parish, located between 2nd and 3rd Streets on West Garfield Avenue. 
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