"Its history dates to January 1900, when Dr. William W. Krape, founder of the Knights of the Globe, organized a society to be incorporated for opening a non-denominational hospital. The forty-bed institution was opened on July 1, 1902 in a brick building (built in 1866) that had been the residence of Col. J. W. Schaffer, later appointed governor of Utah. After his death it had been sold to Hon. Horatio Burchard, who sold it to Dr. Krape. In January 1924, the Globe Hospital was taken over by the Deaconess Society of the Evangelical Church and a deaconess, Miss Millie Ploeger, was sent to direct the hospital. The name was changed to the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital and Training School for Nurses....The old Globe Hospital, still serving as the north unit, was torn down in 1960".

Contributed by Alice Horner from "The History of Stephenson County 1970, edited by Mary X. Barrett and published by Stephenson County, Illinois in 1972.