BBC MAG - HOW ONE MAN SAVED A GENERATION OF PREMATURE BABIES Pictures of the babies and Couney... and a full article.
Martin Couney, born in Krotoschen, Prussia in 1969, got married to Annabelle Segner in New York, in 1903. In 1907 Annabelle gave birth to a daughter Hildegarde six weeks early and weighing just three pounds. Keeping their daughter alive inspired them to help others. Their incubators were ahead of the times, and thousands of babies were saved - the majority of the premmies who were turned over to them. But our modern sensibilities are offended that the babies were shown on the Coney Island boardwalk for a 25 cent fee...
Just a note also, that the incubator babies were part of the set for the series Boardwalk Empire, which I recently binge watched for the first time and thought of as an excellent, extremely well written series.
