Dr. Kate Newcomb is a Northwoods legend and hero due to her medical
expertise and service during the early and mid 1900s. She was born
in Kansas, raised and lived in New York. Against her father's
wishes, she went to medical school and became a doctor. Eventually
she moved to Northern Wisconsin for the clean air needed to help
her husband's illness. Thinking her medical career was over, she
started taking care of her husband until Dr. Thomas Torpy asked her
to answer an emergency call. She headed out for that call on her
snowshoes and continued to work in the area, helping lumberjacks,
farmers, and residents for 30 years. In that time she delivered
more that 4,000 babies! Dr. Kate made most of her house calls on
snowshoes, earning her the nickname "Angel on Snowshoes."
Dr. Kate desperately wanted to have a hospital built in the region.
When money ran out a group of high school students started a penny
drive to raise a million pennies. During this time, Dr. Kate was
surprised with an appearance on "This is Your Life" and, after
hearing of her dream, people from around the nation started sending
pennies to rural Northern Wisconsin to help Dr. Kate build Lakeland
Memorial Hospital.
The final cache can be found at:
N46 06.ABC
W089 40.DEF
- The number of letters in Dr. Kate's maiden name is
A.
- Dr. Torpy convinced her to take that life-changing
emergency call in 193D.
- Dr. Kate covered E50 square miles around
Boulder Junction.
- Dr. Kate was featured on an episode of "This is
Your Life" on C/17/1954.
- Dr. Kate was _ _ years old when she passed away.
Add these digits to get F.
- A museum has been built in Woodruff to commemorate
this great woman and has the clip of her "This is Your Life"
appearance. The museum's address is B23 Second Ave.
We hope you
learned as much about Dr. Kate and her Northwoods history as
sweech did putting together this hide.
If you would like to pay your respects to Dr. Kate, head
south of the final.
She and her husband rest between two large pine trees.
To learn more about Dr. Kate, visit the museum in Woodruff and
check out
GC17Z2P, it's at a location celebrating the million penny drive
that helped build the hospital.
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WSQ stands for Wisconsin Spirit Quest. As
with any cemetery hide, the cache container is not located in
contact with any gravestones, monuments, or other memorials but the
cache may use information on a headstone for reference.
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cemetery caches only during daylight hours and respect visitors who
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Permission for this hide was granted by Jeff
Long, Town Chairman.
Congratulations to babybugx2 for the FTF on July 18,
2009