Elizabeth McMaster

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Elizabeth McMaster
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Born
Elizabeth Jennet Wyllie
DiedMarch 27, 1903(1903-03-27) (aged 55)
NationalityCanadian

Elizabeth McMaster (December 27, 1847 – March 3, 1903) was a Canadian humanitarian and head of the committee which founded the Hospital for Sick Children.[1]

Later Years[]

In her forties and after her husband's death in 1888, she trained to become a nurse in Chicago[1] at Illinois Training School for Nurses (program merged in 1926 into the University of Chicago's School of Nursing and ceased to exist in 1929[2]).[3] Graduating in 1891 McMaster left Chicago to work at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles and , an orphanage in Schenectady, New York.[3] She later returned to Chicago, where she died in 1903.

Legacy[]

The Great Ormond Street Hospital was the influence for her to establish the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Young J (1994). "A divine mission: Elizabeth McMaster and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, 1875-92". Can Bull Med Hist. 11 (1): 71–90. doi:10.3138/cbmh.11.1.71. PMID 11639375. Full Text Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ http://libsysdigi.library.uiuc.edu/OCA/Books2009-06/historyofillinoi00schr/historyofillinoi00schr.pdf
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7154&

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