User:21gaf/Central State Hospital (Indiana)

Superintendents

 * James Athon – superintendent in 1857 when patients were sent home due to a lack of funding
 * William Baldwin Fletcher (1837-1907) – superintendent from 1883 to 1887, when he was fired; known for destroying mechanical restraints in a 1885 bonfire and opposing staff appointments influenced by politics
 * George F. Edenharter (1857-1923) – superintendent from 1893 to 1923; involved in the establishment of a pathology building, which opened in 1896
 * Max A. Bahr (1872-1953) – superintendent from 1923 to 1952; trained as a clinical psychiatrist and known for his work in forensic psychiatry and the treatment of neurosyphilis

Other Staff

 * Sarah Stockton (1842-1924) – graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania; hired in 1884 as the first female physician at the hospital, specifically in the department for women
 * Walter Bruetsch (1896-1977) – educated in Switzerland and Germany; hired in the 1920s and brought the idea of malaria therapy for neurosyphilis to the hospital

Patients

 * Albert Thayer – Civil war veteran who published exposés about the poor treatment of patients at the hospital after being discharged in 1884
 * Anna Agnew – published a biography, Under the Cloud: Personal Reminiscences of Insanity, in 1886 to discuss the poor treatment she experienced during her seven years at the hospital
 * John Zwara (1880-1951) – trained as an artist in Prague and Berlin; created watercolor paintings of the hospital as a patient in 1936; admitted to the hospital by Alexander Vonnegut, the son of Bernard Vonnegut I
 * Riah Fagan Cox (1892-1977) – wrote a short story, "I Remember Jones," in 1950 about the poor treatment she experienced at the hospital in the 1940s; her daughter, Jane Cox, was Kurt Vonnegut's first wife