Career
Her father, Colonel Frank Hampton, died early in the Civil War. Their family home was burned, and Hampton was raised by three aunts. Against her family"s wishes, she went to nursing school in New New York
Halsted appointed her chief nurse of the operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Her marriage to Halsted was notable for the eccentricity of each. Anecdotes about their modes of entertaining, attachment to pets and marital life amused local society.
The impetus for Hampton"s use of gloves was her development of contact dermatitis from the hospital"s antiseptic solution. Doctor Halsted requested that the Goodyear Rubber Company make some rubber gloves.
The gloves worked well when Halsted"s team trialed them.