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Catherine Spalding (December 23 1793 – March 20 1858) in 1813 aged nineteen was elected leader of six women forming a new religious community the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth at a time when no education for girls private health care or organized social services existed on the Kentucky frontier. On January 6 2003 the Louisville Courier-Journal named her the one woman among sixteen “most influential people in Louisville/Jefferson County history.”