Hazzard, Linda Burfield (1867-1938)
secondary literature · 2006
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SUMMARY
HistoryLink.org biographical essay on Linda Burfield Hazzard by Kathrine Beck (Essay 7955, October 26, 2006). HistoryLink is the online encyclopedia of Washington State history. The essay supplies Hazzard's life dates (1867-1938), her Olalla sanitarium nicknamed 'Starvation Heights', and a narrative of the fasting practice, the patient deaths, and the manslaughter conviction consistent with the Washington State Archives record. Used here for the life dates and the 'Starvation Heights' nickname, and as orientation.
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Kathrine Beck’s HistoryLink essay (Essay 7955, October 26, 2006), in the online encyclopedia of Washington State history, gives Hazzard’s life dates (1867-1938), records that her Olalla sanitarium became known locally as “Starvation Heights,” and narrates the fasting practice, the patient deaths, and the manslaughter conviction in terms consistent with the state-archives record. It is used here for the life dates and the nickname and as general orientation, with the load-bearing figures drawn from the Washington State Archives and the Smithsonian account.