Elizabeth McMaster
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| Born | December 27, 1847 Elizabeth Jennet Wyllie |
| Died | March 27, 1903 (aged 55) Chicago, Illinois, US |
| Education | Illinois Training School for Nurses |
| Employer | Good Samaritan Hospital (Los Angeles) |
Elizabeth McMaster (née Wyllie, December 27, 1847 – March 3, 1903) was a Canadian philanthropist and head of the committee which founded the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
Family
[edit]McMaster was born in 1847,[1] to an Anglican family.[2] Her parents were George Black Wyllie and Mary Ann Reid, Scottish immigrants to Canada.[3]
She married Samuel Fenton McMaster in 1865 in Toronto, and in 1866 they were baptised into the Bond Street Baptist Church.[2] She was a member of the Ladies Bible Association and supported the Toronto Home for Incurables.[2]
Career
[edit]In her forties and after her husband's death in 1888, she trained to become a nurse in Chicago,[4] studying at Illinois Training School for Nurses, which merged in 1926 into the University of Chicago's School of Nursing and ceased to exist in 1929.[5][1]
Graduating in 1891, McMaster left Chicago to work at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles and Children's Home, an orphanage in Schenectady, New York.[1] She later returned to Chicago, where she died in 1903.
The Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, England was the inspiration for her to found the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Biography – WYLLIE, ELIZABETH JENNET – Volume XIII (1901-1910) –". Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
- ^ a b c Heath, Gordon L.; Wilson, Paul R. (February 2, 2012). Baptists and Public Life in Canada. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-63087-784-2.
- ^ Wright, David; Kids, The Hospital for Sick (January 6, 2017). SickKids: The History of The Hospital for Sick Children. University of Toronto Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-4426-6757-0.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Schryver, Grace Fay. (1930) A history of the Illinois Training School for Nurses, 1880-1929.
External links
[edit]- Elizabeth McMaster biography - sickkids.ca.
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