Elizabeth McMaster
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Family
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
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
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External links
- Elizabeth McMaster biography - sickkids.ca.