Anna Morris Holstein: Healer & Hero of Montgomery County

The accomplishments of Upper Merion’s Anna Morris Holstein are recognized and appreciated even today.  Her life is commemorated with a blue roadside Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission marker installed at her home on Henderson Road in King of Prussia where she lived most of her life.  During the Civil War, the work by this woman of action was followed by a successful book about her years as a nurse and matron of Letterman Hospital in Gettysburg. Later, her efforts to make Valley Forge a memorial park and to secure Washington's Headquarters as a permanent part of American history led to its becoming our treasured Valley Forge National Park in 1976.  Come hear her story at Upper Merion Township’s Freedom Hall in this family-friendly event on March 2, 2024 at 2 pm. Event co-sponsored by Upper Merion Township Historical Commission. 

    Light refreshment will be served outside Freedom Hall before and after the event!

About the presenter:

About the presenter:

Pat Jordan is a professional actor, director, and playwright whose passion for history has led her to bring the stories of Famous American Women to countless audiences.  Characters are thoroughly researched and include 18th, 19th and 20th Century women such as Amelia Earhart, Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, and League of Women Voters founder Carrie Chapman Catt, among others.  

Pat is a Public Scholar for New Jersey Council for the Humanities, and has performed at the National Archives, National Portrait Gallery, NASA-Langley, 42nd Street and Clurman Theatres in New York, U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center, and other well-known sites.   Credits include leads in musicals, dramas, and comedies;  principal feature film and TV roles in Harvest (Cash Crop), Lucky Numbers, Eyewitness to History; HBO/Autopsy 9; and Betsy Ross in the American Flag Association’s History of the American Flag.   She wrote and directed a documentary, If Walls Could Talk: The Story of Laurel Hill Mansion, which was aired at the Philadelphia International Film Festival and Comcast Ovation channel. 

A Theatre/CA graduate of Villanova University, Pat studied at HB Studio in NY with Herbert Berghof and Hal Holden, Juilliard’s Opera Workshop with Vincent LaSelva, and Rutgers-Camden Summer Theatre Production Program.